2010 was a year in which the Boks came crashing down to earth after the highs of 2009.
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/ 23 December 2009
The decade delivered the kind of political dodging only South Africans could come up with. We bring you the country’s top ten political excuses.
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/ 5 November 2009
Seems the word "loophole" is becoming as much a part of rugby jargon as the words "lineout", "who, me ref?" and "Aussies can’t scrum".
So, barely a day after Springbok coach Peter de Villiers rebuked criticism of Ricky Januarie, a Bok match 22 was announced sans Januarie.
A few months, six Test matches, high drama, fluctuating emotions, and the honours are even between the Proteas and Australia. Or are they?
”Mud, queues, bursting bladder, rumbling stomach, queues. Aarghh! No toilet paper! A beer would be good, but if I stand in another queue for two hours I might miss the reason I came: the band. That big, famous band that leads us to endure forms of torture not yet outlawed by the Geneva Convention.” Keith Nicholls goes to war with the elements.
It doesn’t get much bigger for local musicians than sharing the same stage on an international billing with the Rolling Stones. And for Arno Carstens and his band, New Porn, what to many rockers is just a dream will become reality on Saturday as the local lads play main support to the Stones in San Sebastian, Spain.
South African cricket fans woke up on Monday morning buoyed by the unbelievable achievement of their cricket heroes in doing the improbable.