Surfer Kholo Langa, who is an U14 surfer, has a quick wit and a sharp sense of humour. I asked him, as I so often do in interviews, what his biggest fear might be? I am just testing the water to see if sharks come up so to speak and for good surfers, they never do.
“Let my brother answer first,” he suggested, adding that he wanted to think about it a bit more. Older brother Ndalo, who competes at U16 level, said: “Eight foot Nahoon Reef or no access to any sport of any kind.” Interesting to note that even as a 14-year-old schoolboy, soon to turn 15 in 2026, that waves are still measured in feet and inches, and surfboards too. “Hell”, as in the biblical sense, is Kholo’s measured answer after he has had some time to think.
His big dream is just to be a top pro sportsman one day, and it is going to be a tough choice because the young man is multitalented across a bundle of sports. You name it — rugby, cricket, hockey, tennis, swimming, surfing. In surfing he has an advantage.
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Older brother Ndalo is a good student of equipment. It is his passion to know which surfboards are good and why. How does a round pin tail differ from a squash tail or swallow tail? He makes a point of following top local surfers and buying their second hand surfboards, and riding them to test them out.
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