Daily Voice 2021-06-10

BONTEHEUWEL has gained a star after eight-year-old Tamika van As won a gold medal in a figure skating competition. She received a hero's welcome when she arrived at Cape Town airport yesterday from Johannesburg. She came first place in her age group at the South African Figure Skating Association Nationals last weekend. Her proud mother Tarryn, 38, says all her daughter’s hard work has paid off. “She started this when she was only three years old, when we went to watch her father’s table tennis team play at the Grand West Casino,” she says “And she saw the skating rink and she kept insisting that we go back to it, until I discovered that there was a club which she could join. “The coach provided private lessons and she has…