Everybody Needs Good Neighbours, and All-Conquering South Africans Owe a Large Debt of Gratitude to Zimbabwe

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ONLY LAST weekend the Springboks had recently been walloped by the Wallabies in Brisbane and they needed a rare win in New Zealand to secure their first Tri-Nations victory since 2004. It was an emotional night in Hamilton as the Boks squeezed home by three points after Springbok legend Bobby Skinstad had handed out those famous green and gold jerseys to the players before the match.

The former Boks skipper is a pin-up boy for a generation of rugby- mad South African fans, many of whom probably don't realise that the great No.8, a member of Jake White's World Cup winning squad just two years back, was not born a South African but instead qualified on residency grounds.

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Everybody Needs Good Neighbours, and All-Conquering South Africans Owe a Large Debt of Gratitude to Zimbabwe

Skinstad was born in Rhodesia (as Zimbabwe then was) but then so too was the man that he controversially replaced for the 1999 World Cup, Gary Teichmann, another former South African skipper who led them to a world record 17 conse...

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