CHRIS HEWETT
THINKING ALLOWED

Power players: Eben Etzebeth and, inset, Cheslin Kolbe, Handre Pollard and Andre Esterhuizen
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IT’S a difficult thing to find, the world’s tiniest violin, but we can be sure of this much: should some lucky soul unearth the miniature Stradivarius over the next few days and draw a bow across its strings, the tune that emerges will not be a lament for the Springboks as they prepare for their last four matches of another wildly successful calendar year.
When the holders of the Webb Ellis Trophy and “Greatest...