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John Smit and Thabo Mbeki

Thabo Mbeki joins Springbok management

Sunday, 28th October 2007 at 10:42 am

Nothing’s been made official yet, but as usual Feverpitcher has the inside track, and so can break the post-World Cup story of the year: Thabo Mbeki is set to join the Springbok management team after his successful secondment to the …

OR Tambo crowds

Boks fans turn out in thousands

Tuesday, 23rd October 2007 at 3:23 pm

Had the Pope arrived with Michael Jackson, Britney Spears and John Lennon (now there’s a fourball for a celebrity golf day), you wouldn’t have got as big a crowd: the day after the South African public celebrated the World Cup, …

World Cup winners

The Boks are back!

Tuesday, 23rd October 2007 at 10:00 am

Feverpitcher is reporting in live from one of the more animated crowds we’ve found ourselves part of: the sea of green that is OR Tambo International, on the morning the Springboks touched down in South Africa. We’ll try and have …

World Cup victory

Springboks win the World Cup!

Sunday, 21st October 2007 at 9:59 am

Feverpitcher is monumentally hungover this morning, and with extremely good reason; as such, nothing terribly deep to post. Just one simple, glorious refrain: we’re the World Champions!

Os du Randt

Os du Randt’s last stand

Friday, 19th October 2007 at 3:25 pm

12 years ago, a young prop forward with limited experience but enormous presence entered the Rugby World Cup as a relative unknown, and ended it as as superstar, feared as a scrummager, a marauding forward, and a surprisingly agile athlete …

Wikus van Heerden

Wikus in, as Skinstad bows out

Thursday, 18th October 2007 at 12:23 pm

Way back in December last year, when the return of Bob Skinstad moved out of the shadows of muttered rumour, and was confirmed as an unlikely truth, the projected path of the big loose forward was the subject of much …