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Pathfinder Bedford lay ground for Kolisi

PETER JACKSON
Tommy Bedford’s journey of a lifetime began 50 winters ago on the rocks of a Welsh seaside resort, a fitting image for a Springbok tour run aground by antiapartheid demonstrations.
At the end of three troubled months, the beleaguered Boks finished up in Porthcawl, at the Seabank Hotel where the lawn rolls down to the rocks. Bedford sat there with a few friends including one of the more renowned Springbok captains, Avril Malan.
“We knew that no country could afford another tour like this,’’ Bedford said. “That was the catalyst for change in a radic...

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