{"id":30968,"date":"2019-07-23T19:43:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T17:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=30968"},"modified":"2019-07-23T19:43:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T17:43:26","slug":"boity-proud-to-support-the-totalsports-womens-race-and-pinkdrive-in-johannesburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/athletics\/boity-proud-to-support-the-totalsports-womens-race-and-pinkdrive-in-johannesburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Boity proud to support the Totalsports Women\u2019s Race and PinkDrive in Johannesburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hip Hop sensation Boity (Boitumelo Thulo) will close off the action of the Totalsports Women\u2019s Race in Johannesburg on Friday 09 August 2019 (National Women\u2019s Day) in support of PinkDrive.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u201cMy musical journey started in 2018.\u00a0 Through music I am able to get my message out to the public,\u201d says Boity.\u00a0 \u201cIt is an honour to perform for women at the Totalsports Women&#8217;s Race.\u00a0 I am a very casual runner.\u00a0 I try get in a run whenever my schedule allows it. I admire the dedication regular runners have.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>\u201cI definitely support the empowerment of women,\u201d continues Boity.\u00a0 \u201cWe all have loved ones and friends that have been affected by cancer.\u00a0 This is a very important initiative and I am proud to be part of it.\u00a0 The runners can expect fun and a lot of energy. I will be performing my new single #OwnYourThrone which perfectly fits the theme of the event.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Event Information:\u00a0<\/strong> 2019 Totalsports Women\u2019s Race \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>An annual Women\u2019s Day celebration, the Totalsports Women\u2019s Race encourages athletes to run united in support of PinkDrive because they are #StrongerTogether.\u00a0 For the first time since the event\u2019s inception in 2001, South Africa\u2019s largest Women\u2019s Day Celebration will be hosted on one day across three major cities.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Date:\u00a0 <\/strong>Friday, 09 August 2019 \/ National Women\u2019s Day<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Venue:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><em><strong>Durban:<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 Kings Park Athletics Track<\/li>\r\n<li><em><strong>Johannesburg:<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 Mary Fitzgerald Square, Newtown<\/li>\r\n<li><em><strong>Cape Town:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em> Grand Parade, Cape Town CBD<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><strong>Start Time:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><strong>10km<\/strong> \/ 08:00<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>5km<\/strong> \/ 08:15<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><strong>PRIZE PURSE:<\/strong>\u00a0 The 2019 Totalsports Women\u2019s Race boasts a whopping combined Prize Purse of R123 600, that\u2019s a total of R 41 200 per city (Durban, Johannesburg and Cape Town).<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalsportswomensrace.com\/prize-purse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE<\/strong><\/a> to view the entire Prize Purse breakdown. Each entrant will receive a fitted Event T-shirt, a Totalsports Head Scarf and a finisher\u2019s bracelet while being treated to an entertaining route experience with refreshment points.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Charity Support:<\/strong>\u00a0 The Totalsports Women\u2019s Race proudly supports PinkDrive, a Non-Profit Company (NPC) that is committed to improving breast cancer awareness, education, and providing and offering free services to the medically uninsured across South Africa. PinkDrive will be present at the Totalsports Women\u2019s Race (Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town) offering FREE clinical breast examinations and educating on the importance of self- breast examinations.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Facebook page:\u00a0 <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/womensrace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Women\u2019s Race<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ThePinkDrive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The PinkDrive<\/a> <strong><!-- \/wp:post-content -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Follow us on Twitter:\u00a0 <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/@womensrace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@womensrace<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/@TotalsportsSA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TotalsportsSA<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/@thepinkdrive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@thepinkdrive<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong> <strong>Follow us on Instagram:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/Totalsports_SA\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Totalsports_SA<\/a> <strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>For more information on PinkDrive visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinkdrive.co.za\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.pinkdrive.co.za<\/a>.\u00a0 For further information or to enter the Totalsports Women\u2019s Race visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.totalsportswomensrace.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.totalsportswomensrace.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hip Hop sensation Boity (Boitumelo Thulo) will close off the action of the Totalsports Women\u2019s Race in Johannesburg on Friday 09 August 2019 (National Women\u2019s Day) in support of PinkDrive. \u201cMy musical journey started in 2018.\u00a0 Through music I am able to get my message out to the public,\u201d says Boity.\u00a0 \u201cIt is an honour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":58746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3435],"tags":[295,2723,2736,2735,3538],"class_list":["post-30968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-athletics","tag-johannesburg","tag-pinkdrive","tag-totalsports","tag-totalsports-womens-race","tag-womens-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}