Naas Botha’s Boots
We’re off to see a rugby fanatic who lives at the end of a long dirt road in the Karoo, somewhere between the Upside-Down Cow Sign and the teasing promise of a distant rain cloud. The drive takes us through timeless landscapes of silent veld and typical fat-topped hills interspersed with rows of garingboom (Agave sisalana), fence lines and sheep. Lots of sheep.
Barry Naudé, who farms by day and thinks elliptical-ball thoughts non-stop, has opened The Waterhole Rugby Museum and Private Pub at his home on Driekoppen, roughly equidistant from Noupoort, Hanover,
