The gruelling 90-kilometre (56-mile) race was first run in 1921. This year's marathon kicks off Sunday at 5.30 am from Pietermaritzburg town hall, going 'downhill' towards Durban.
SOWETO - After dropping off children at school, South African minibus driver "Roro" Mokgele Ramathe parks up and strips down to his training kit underneath.
Part of the attraction is that you do not need money or special equipment to cross the finishing line, he said. "You just need to be disciplined." In 1989, railway worker Tshabalala Sam Tshabalala became the first black man to win the race, towards the end of the apartheid era. Ramathe's daily schedule is set to almost military precision: the school run in his minibus, which takes two hours; a five-kilometre run and a quick shower, then off to his second job as a hairdresser.
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