Innholdsfortegnelse for 2022-08-12 i Daily Voice

BOBBY Nitro just loves a zero to hero story, and here’s one from the Spin Outlaws crew. Not to say that Wafeeq Oliver, 18, started at zero, this guy has been working hard on his spin career, just that he rose so fast in the ranks that Bobby just had to have a chat with him. Wafeeq, who hails from Mitchells Plain, started out with Spin Outlaws at the beginning of last year and has, through a combination of hard work, perseverance and sheer driving talent, climbed his way up to number two on the ladder, behind Shandre Green at number one. He says: “I got into spinning through my dad, Riedwaan Oliver, who used to drive a Cortina with a V6 in at Killarney, Kraaifontein and other places. “He’s…

Discover Bobby Nitro was reviewing the Safely Home survey done in 2019 around South African attitudes to speeding, and was shocked to discover that 13.2 percent of people thought speeding meant driving faster than 140km/h, and most of these people were under the age of 25. Granted, for 44 percent of people speeding was defined as driving faster than the speed limit, but it’s this minority that is likely to cause the biggest damage. In addition, one-third of drivers reported that they themselves speed, and about 90 percent said they know of drivers in their neighbourhood that just go too fast. It seems that there is too much of an acceptance, even a glorification, of speeding in our communities. That’s simply no good. Surely we need to change these attitudes?…