I love radio! It is immediate and alive. The connection is so real. Add the element of sport and it's wide open - I have a whole array of topics that touch us all to tap into. Today marks four years since I joined Radio 2000 to host a new sports talk show called #GameOn. Over the years the show [...]
For the second year in a row, I had the honour of being MC for the launch of the Brutal Fruit Netball Premier League. What has impressed me on both occasions is the media presence at the event, and subsequent promotion of the semi-professional league across various media platforms. Women's sport is crying out for [...]
Today marks exactly 25 years since South Africa’s first Test match appearance following their return to international cricket in 1991, in a historic match against West Indies at the Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, on Thursday, 18 April, 1992. Despite an all-white selection, it was a newly-united South Africa’s first international encounter, and significantly presented our [...]
Great to pop into the Expresso Show in their super cool Sea Point studio for a little sports chat this morning, before flying home to Joburg! Talking Proteas vs Sri Lanka, selection, batters, bowlers, New Zealand, Champions Trophy and a whole lot more - always love talking cricket with Graeme Richards - he gets it!
Kass Naidoo was delighted to be invited to contribute to the Blogosphere feature on Star Sports India’s Match Point, following India’s comprehensive triple-series win against visitors England. Kass spoke to the exciting show’s hosts, Suhail Chandhok and Sanjana Ganesan. Watch the video to listen to Kass' contribution: I
Following a chance first-time meeting at the hairdresser just before Kass was due to host the SABC's broadcast of the second ODI between the Proteas and Sri Lanka at Kingsmead, East Coast Radio icon Jane Linley Thomas called to catch up with Kass Naidoo. Click the audio bar start icon below to listen to the [...]
What an honour to be interviewed by the legendary Ruda Landman!
BBC World Service documentary on BBC radio sports commentary, to mark the 90th anniversary of the BBC’s first radio football commentary in 1927. Reference to Kass at just after the 40' mark
As I prepare to welcome my final year in my thirties, I feel drawn to capturing my experiences over the past decade. If my twenties were about obsessing over my career dreams, my thirties were about giving myself over to motherhood. I had all three of my kids in my thirties - Daniel at 31, [...]
A picture of West Indies batsman Chris Gayle with the SABC's Kass Naidoo, at Newlands in Cape Town during the 2003/04 tour of South Africa. Photo: Supplied My return to the Test cricket commentary box this summer for England’s tour of South Africa on SABC Sport has been nothing short of [...]