AT THE BEACH | Amandla bhuti, go claim your gold

Thirty-one-year-old Avuyile Ndamase’s rise to green and gold to represent SA Surfing at the most recent ISA World Surfing Championships in El Salvador is nothing short of heroic. Raised on the rural sharky coast of Second Beach, Port St Johns, Avuyile comes from hard beginnings. His only brother, Zama, was fatally attacked by a shark right before his eyes and yet Avuyile has conquered all boundaries of fear to rise to his full potential as an SA surfer.