‘NO ONE QUITE LIKE MY HANSIE’
Feb 21, 2020
4 minutes
BY CYRIL BLACKBURN
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ER LOMBARD
HE WAS her adored big brother who always looked out for her, the person she’d go to when she had a problem, the guy who always helped her sort things out.
“We were extremely close,” she says. “When I cried, he’d say, ‘No, sis. Pull yourself together. Let’s think this through’.”
Then one day his world fell apart and it was he who needed her – and now, nearly two decades after what remains one of SA’s most notorious falls from grace, Hester Parsons still feels the pain of her brother’s embarrassment, still grieves his death.
Her brother is, of course, Hansie Cronjé, the world-renowned cricket
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