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Always room for Bakkies and Co

CHRIS HEWETT

SAY what you like about Bakkies Botha – most people don’t, for reasons of self-preservation – but there are times when you have to love him. The much-garlanded, much-travelled and much-feared Springbok lock complains that rugby has driven its “enforcers” to the brink of extinction, and lost some of its character as a consequence.
He’s right. While it may not be politically correct to speak nostalgically of Colin Meads, Cowboy Shaw and Buck Shelford, of Gerard Cholley and Michel Palmie, of Richard Moriarty and Wade Dooley, of dear ...

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