Women Find A Home On The Sports Field

Du Toit is a true role model for all of Southern Africa, a region that, while it emphatically encourages able-bodied young men in sport, rarely has the same enthusiasm for women or those with disability.

With the final fanfare of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and Paralympics having drawn to a close, South Africa and the region will now be turning its attention wholeheartedly to the next major global sporting event, the 2010 FIFA World Cup. While celebrating the Paralympics' success, South Africa is also grappling with questions of what went wrong in an Olympics that yielded just one medal.