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Book brings Bok history to life

Ring-side Seat

WHO better to tackle the history of Springbok rugby than someone who has had a ringside seat to the green and gold juggernaut’s dazzling and destructive best for more than 25 years?

Mike Greenaway, a respected and long-serving Independent Media rugby writer, has weaved a quintessential collection of Springbok happenings and heroics that date back to the 1890s in his latest book, The Fireside Springbok: The untold stories that make the Boks great.

While Greenaway’s coffee table book was released in October, before the ‘Boks achieved their latest World

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