By Gareth Duncan in Cape Town
The 2011 Junior World Judo Championship is being hosted in Cape Town - the first event of its kind to be held in South Africa.
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Cape Town will be a hive of musclebound activity in late June/early July.
By Mark Etheridge The Portuguese Hall in Vanderbijlpark will reverberate to the thud of the continent's canniest fighters over the next week.
South Africa will host the judo Junior World Championships in 2011.
Judo South Africa Elite players, Gideon Van Zyl, Patrick Trezise, Siyabulela Mabulu and Lusanda Ngoma will be attending an IJF sponsored international training camp in Paris from 20 July 2010 until 15 September 2010.
South Africa's Oscar Knoester has been given the great honour of refereeing at the 2010 world championships in Tokyo, Japan.
Rena "Rusty" Kanokogi, known as the "Mother of Judo" partly for her role in bringing women's judo to the Olympic Games, has died at the age of 74.
Pretoria's Patrick Trezise reached the last 16 in his weight division at the World Judo Championships that ended in Rotterdam, Netherlands at the weekend.
Twelve South African judoka will take the floor for their country at the World Kata Championships in Malta in October.
South Africa's top young judoka will be heading for Europe on 4 August.