OUR SHINING STAR
IT WAS just what the country needed. Fragile after devastating unrest, reeling in the grip of a pandemic that just won’t let go, South Africans were desperate for some good news.
And Tatjana Schoenmaker gave us that in spades. As most of the country slumbered in the early hours of Friday 30 July, the 24-year-old breaststroke maestro torpedoed her way to gold in the 200m and smashed a world record to boot.
“It’s indescribable,” an emotional Schoenmaker said as the clutched her gold medal. She was