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Coetzee prowling up the learning curve

PACKING FOR some time in the Bush has halted, but only momentarily. There is an uninvited break in the playing schedule, with the South African sides not involved in top European competition, and with summer budding at the tip of Africa it is the right time to leave urban sprawl behind.

Marcell Coetzee tells us: “Our weather is fantastic this time of year. Most of the people would go to Mozambique to the beaches or to the coastal shores. But, ja, I’m a bit of a Bush fanatic, you know. So that’s me, going to my guest house very near to the Kruger National Park.

“That’s mostly a big-five area

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