Boeta Cassiem had sold ice-cream at Newlands for more than 55 years up before he was diagnosed with renal failure. BoetaCassiem IOLSport
His little one-liners such as “a sucker to make you wakker” and “a lolly to make you jolly” made him a firm favourite with cricket fans and players alike., who had requested to walk around his beloved Newlands for the last time.
“We decided to do something a little more fitting for Boeta Cassiem and a bit more personal, so we invited his family over to Newlands. We had a function to pay tribute to him,” WP Cricket Cricket Association Brand and sponsorship manager David Brooke said at the time.
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