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Cape Town – A provisional R4-million was raised for charity at the weekend’s Nelson Mandela Invitational (NMI) golf tournament, which finished at the Arabella Western Cape Hotel & Spa near Kleinmond yesterday.
Tim Clark and Vincent Tsabalala were the regular and tour pros in their fourball to win the betterball medal and prize money of R125 000 each.
Clark pledged earlier this week that, should he win, he would donate his earnings to a deaf girl he met on a visit to the Carel du Toit Centre for hearing impaired children in Cape Town.
“I’m hoping to win this week for a girl named Siobhan,” he said. “Apparently it costs R160 000 for the type of hearing aid she needs and certainly if I win I would like all my money to go to helping her buy that hearing aid. She has been my inspiration for the weekend so I hope we can pull it off.”
The event was jointly created in 1999 by Mandela and Player as a fundraising vehicle for the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund and the Gary Player Foundation. Over the past five years it has raised R15-million for South Africa’s needy children.
Among the participating celebrities this year were Irish pop star Ronan Keating and Namibian sprinter Frankie Fredericks.
Cape Town – A provisional R4-million was raised for charity at the weekend’s Nelson Mandela Invitational (NMI) golf tournament, which finished at the Arabella Western Cape Hotel & Spa near Kleinmond yesterday.
Tim Clark and Vincent Tsabalala were the regular and tour pros in their fourball to win the betterball medal and prize money of R125 000 each.
Clark pledged earlier this week that, should he win, he would donate his earnings to a deaf girl he met on a visit to the Carel du Toit Centre for hearing impaired children in Cape Town.
“I’m hoping to win this week for a girl named Siobhan,” he said. “Apparently it costs R160 000 for the type of hearing aid she needs and certainly if I win I would like all my money to go to helping her buy that hearing aid. She has been my inspiration for the weekend so I hope we can pull it off.”
The event was jointly created in 1999 by Mandela and Player as a fundraising vehicle for the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund and the Gary Player Foundation. Over the past five years it has raised R15-million for South Africa’s needy children.
Among the participating celebrities this year were Irish pop star Ronan Keating and Namibian sprinter Frankie Fredericks.