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WORLD CHAMPIONS - THE century, as well as additional content
STORY OF SOUTH AFRICAN about, inter alia institutions such as the
RUGBY national governing bodies, and the winning
By Jonty Winch teams in 1995, 2007, 2019 and 2023.
World Champions (Second Edition)
continues the story of South African In this way, the Second Edition continues
rugby in a new chapter that includes to provide both the most relevant and
coverage of the momentous 2023 most current history of South African
Rugby World Cup win by South Africa’s rugby and the many organisations and
Springboks. individuals that have contributed to its
evolution.
South Africa won the 2023 Rugby World Price: R405.00
Cup by defeating New Zealand 12-11 in
front of more than 80 000 spectators
at the Stade de France. As this Second
Edition shows, in winning the Webb Ellis
Cup for the fourth time, the Springboks
became the competition’s most
successful team. Back-to-back victories
in Yokohama in 2019 and Paris in 2023
inspired a renewed appreciation of the
skills that have always existed across
South Africa’s racial spectrum. In its
telling of this story, World Champions
Second Edition again offers readers
insights that go beyond the media-led
rendition of South African rugby.
SPUD: THE REUNION
By John van de Ruit Further additions to this Second Edition
It is 2003 – ten years since Spud Milton’s include a revised introduction, expanded
class of 93 matriculated and the boys went index, updates to the history of South
their separate ways. Despite their seemingly Africa’s first steps toward playing
unbreakable bond, the Crazy 8 – Rambo, Mad international rugby in the late nineteenth
Dog, Vern, Fatty, Garth Garlic, Boggo, Simon and
Spud – have not kept in touch. Or at least, not as
far as Spud knows. When he receives an invitation INTO THE UNCUT
to attend the Ten-Year Reunion weekend, Spud is GRASS
determined to avoid the event at all costs. By Trevor Noah
From Trevor Noah, the
No one is going to bend his arm, not this time; he author of the #1 bestselling
is immune to peer pressure and wise to Rambo’s memoir Born a Crime, comes
devious manipulation techniques. Spud has a gorgeously illustrated
moved on. At 28, Spud is stuck in a one-third fable in the tradition of The
life crisis. Reflecting on a decade of spectacular Boy, the Mole, the Fox and
non-achievement, at a point where he’s coming to the Horse about a young
realise that his glittering stage career might have child’s journey into the world
stalled before it’s even begun, casts him into beyond the shadow of home,
deep gloom. a magical landscape where
he discovers the secrets of
Spud still doesn’t have a serious girlfriend either. solidarity, connection, and
Not to mention that circumstances have forced finding peace with the people
him to move back in with his parents and his we love.
senile grandmother whose walks never end
where they began. After a wildly unsuccessful Infused with Trevor’s
fishing trip with his father, as well as a return to signature wit and
his old way of figuring things out – writing in his imagination, in collaboration
diary – to his surprise, Spud finds his reunion with visionary artist Sabina
resistance crumbling. Curiosity and courage Hahn, it's a tale for readers
win the day. It’s just a weekend, after all … what of all ages – to be read aloud
could possibly go wrong? or read alone.
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