Grahame Thorne

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Joined February 2015

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Played rugby around the World.

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Yes bring up South Africa and New Zealand rugby as a topic and suddenly you have not only rugby but recipes, apartheid, corruption, scandals but also some wonderful insights into life both here and SA.
Having lived in both Countries and played rugby in both I identified with many of the comments. I was at the 1981 Test at Eden Park commentating and was also at the same level as the plane as Quinn and I were on top of the No 1 stand!
I enjoyed the story of the Maori playing in Cape Town. Definitely a first ! I was actually playing when the first Maori players took to the field in 1970 at the Border Rugby Ground. They were Sid Going and Buff Milner who replaced Bruce Hunter
I was in SA two years ago at the 75th celebrations of the of Northern Tranvaal Rugby. SA has chnaged but the average black is still not really emancipated. There are now many very rich blacks but a lot of very poor blacks. The politicians are very much in the first group ! Keep up the discussions You can never get enough when SA /NZ comes up

The peculiar rugby relationship between New Zealand and South Africa

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