Spin City Commemorates Youth Day

Spinner Oupa Maisela commemorating Youth Day at the Soshanguve Spin Palace, on Saturday 16 June

Robert Mabusela

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Shoshanguve Spin Kings hosted a Spin City event in commemoration of Youth Day at the Soshanguve Spin Palace in Block F, on Saturday June 16.

Petrol heads and BMW fanatics came in their numbers, neatly dressed in their school uniforms as part of the National attire “we asked the youth and people attending the event to come dressed in their school uniform in commemoration of the 1976 Soweto uprising”, said host and local spinner Bongani Makhubo.

In making the commemoration educational "students" had to complete an assignment which tested their knowledge on local spinners and questions based on the  BMW E30 also known as the "Gusheshe". The first five students that were at the gate and have answered the questions with a minimum mark of 70 percent got a chance to take a ride with the spinners and also received Spin City Mayhem and Polokwane DVD.

Instead of tyres going up in flames, spinners burned tyres through the slip-differential system of the BMW E30`s which created a smokey atmosphere that was similar to that of the Soweto uprising, during protests lead by high school students. Petrol head and BMW fanatic Tumelo Sithole, travelled from centurion to attend the event “I really enjoyed the event and I feel that it was worth travelling to Soshanguve to commemorate Youth day in the township”, said Sithole.

The event lived up to its expectations as featured and guest spinners put up tyre smoking performances together with the help of various stunt men and their adrenaline pumping stunts. One of the most impressive performances was by Fourteen year old spinner “Sam Sam’ from Numbigate in Nelspruit, who used the long wheel base Japanese Toyota Hilux in the German dominated spinning field.

Overall the event went as planned apart from minor accidents which didn’t leave anyone injured but fender benders, smashed lights and front damage which resulted from two spinners who crashed into one another while spinning simultaneously.