As a boy, I loved rugby and the Springboks above all else. One could say I loved the Springboks as fiercely as I yearned for my father to love and like me.
When I saw the Springbok prop Trevor Nyakane celebrate the Springbok rugby team’s victory on Saturday with his killer dance moves, I immediately thought of Uncle Norman, Trevor’s dad, and Trevor’s sisters, Abigail and Rhulani.
Until I was in my late teens, I knew the final score of every Currie Cup final and every Springbok rugby match played since my birth; I knew who had scored the points in each of these games, and I knew how many caps each Springbok had earned for the team. I loved rugby and I loved the Springboks, but I was terrible at playing the game and feared – even hated – playing it. I was a typical sissy . I hated my rugby kit getting dirty. I hated being tackled. And I hated thebefore each game where our coach would tell us to fuck up our opponents without being caught, before bowing our heads and praying to ask God for a victory.
It had something to do with rugby then being a sport run by Afrikaners and largely played by Afrikaners for other Afrikaners. booth outside the local polling station in the 1977 whites-only election), and if you were an Afrikaner Nationalist, you loved rugby and the Springboks.My love for the Springboks also had something to do with the Afrikaans radio commentator Gerhard Viviers
My parents are in the front room of our house, my mother sipping on a pink Campari, my father gulping down his usual brandy on the rocks. The room is thick with smoke from my mother’s Ransom Select and my father’s Gold Dollar Plain cigarettes. is loosehead prop, Pa tighthead. He shows me how to bind to my props, and how to shuffle the imaginary ball to the back of our imaginary scrum with my right foot when the scrumhalf enters the ball into the scrum after shouting: “” In between practice rounds he takes large gulps of his brandy on the rocks . But when the glass is empty he does not go to the kitchen to refill it as he normally would.
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