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How Boer War camps brought a new breed to the game

BRITISH Prisoner of War camps on St Helena in the mid-Atlantic and even more so in Sri Lanka played a surprisingly big role in the development of South African rugby.
Before the Second Boer War (1899- 1902) rugby in southern Africa was very much the game of the English speaking settlers on the coast in Cape Town and Durban, and the Boer elite in the thriving gold city of Johannesburg. It was not played in rural Boer areas and was virtually unknown in the Free State.
Come the conflict and the Boer militia was comprised mainly of those rural settlers from Transvaal and the Free State, and 24,...

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