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/ 25 January 2008
It was with growing astonishment, anger and finally disgust that I read CornĂ© Krige’s recent comments on new Springbok coach Pieter de Villiers. The most nauseating part of what read like a racist attack by the former Bok captain on De Villiers was a line from his final paragraph.
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/ 19 October 2007
There have been many times during the past 12 years when the idea of South Africa ever winning the World Cup again seemed utterly ludicrous. Remember when AndrĂ© Markgraaff dropped Francois Pienaar and replaced him in the Springbok squad with Theo OostĂ‚Âhuizen? That was ludicrous.
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/ 7 September 2007
Australia beat England at the 1991 Rugby World Cup final, but in the South Stand at Twickenham lurked a couple of fellows who held up a banner emblazoned with this motto: ”South Africa, the real World Champions”. As it turned out, the blazers of the International Rugby Board had met during the second World Cup to debate the re-entry of the Springboks into the international fold.