AT THE TOP OF HIS GAME
AS A boy he’d play touch rugby with his friends in the dusty streets of Missionvale in Port Elizabeth.
Sometimes there wouldn’t even be a ball and they’d make do with an empty plastic cooldrink bottle. And when they did get their hands on a ball, it was often so smooth and slippery with age they’d battle to get a handle on it. But they kept right on playing, making do with what they had.
“We had our own leagues,”32-year-old veteran Blitzbok Cecil Afrika tells YOU. “It would be the one street against the other. We had a weekly touchies
