Meyer's hat home to 31 green rabbits

27 August 2015 - 02:09
By Archie Henderson

The announcement of a Springbok rugby team used to be one of the great South African traditions. It would bring families together, usually around an old Bush valve radio as the names crackled over the ether. Or to join a crowd in 1931 blocking Cape Town's Long Street, where the Metropole Hotel was the venue for naming the team to tour Britain.

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