Graeme joffe biography of rory

I’d like to talk about a book I recently finished reading.

The book in question is Sport: Greed and Betrayal by South African sports journalist Graeme Joffe, which and was independently published in March.

Joffe was a prominent sports journalist who made a name for himself after publishing many hard-hitting articles exploring the corrupt underbelly of SA’s various sporting federations.

His revelations got him in a lot of trouble and in 2015, Joffe was forced to flee to the US after numerous threats on his life.

The book itself is a compelling read, a mixture of exposé and memoir that covers a period from 2012 until April 2019.

One thing in particular that stuck with me was Joffe’s discussion on the funding of athletes, or rather the lack thereof.

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& Express, we’ve published a number of articles on athletes young and old whose achievements earned them the honour of representing their province or even country at prestigious sporting events.

Most of these