They brought great joy to millions of South Africans, and now Mzansi’s Olympic and Paralympic medallists are enjoying the fruits of their labours. Tokyo2020 By AshfakMohamed IOLSport
CAPE TOWN - THEY brought great joy to millions of South Africans, and now Mzansi’s Olympic and Paralympic medallists are enjoying the fruits of their labours.
After Tatjana Schoenmaker and Bianca Buitendag received cheques worth R600 000 and R200 000 respectively from USN and Atterbury Property’s crowd-funding initiative, Toyota South Africa stepped up on Friday to award the swimming and surfing stars – as well as the Paralympic athletes who scooped a gold, silver or bronze deal at the Tokyo Games.
Toyota, who were also global sponsors of both the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, decided to give gold medallists R100 000, silver R50 000 and bronze R25 000, which meant that double Paralympics champion Ntando Mahlangu received a cheque of R200 000 – the most on the day at the handover ceremony.
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