Community sports organisations and individuals across the ci

• Published date: 13 October 2022
• Publication title: False Bay Echo

A regular contributor to Cape Community Newspapers and other publications, including her own media platforms, Roberts, 60, used every opportunity to rally behind sports women, especially up-and-coming girls in various codes

For those who knew her, and even those that didn’t but encountered her along the way, she will be remembered as a fearless fighter for transformation in sport and on a political front, a warrior for social justice who put women first, whether in sport, politics or everyday life.

Diagnosed with cancer a few years ago, Roberts died in hospital after spending her final days at the family home in Durban, where she’s originally from, in the company of her sisters Vanessa and Sharon Roberts.

To some she may have been just another angry, black woman with a feminist agenda, but most will remember her as a caring friend, a very independent, private and soft-spoken individual with an infectious laugh and also one not afraid to raise her voice against injustice.

“Cheryl loved sport… men’s sport and women’s sport,” said her long-time friend, Patric Solomons, the executive director of children’s rights organisation Molo Songololo. Solomons has known Roberts for 30 years, having met...