NEVER give up or underestimate the power of adversity. Never think a goal is out of reach and simply impossible to achieve. Seven years ago, give or take, a group of mainly young
South African rugby players lined up against New Zealand at Albany North Harbour and got absolutely thrashed and humiliated 57-0. The absolute nadir of South African rugby.
Starting that day for the Boks were Tendai Mtawarira, Malcolm Marx, Eben Etzebeth, Franco Mostert, Jesse Kriel and Siya Kolisi and putting in long shifts off the bench – in vain – were Bongi Mbonambi, Steven Kitshoff, Trevor...