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Issue No. 309 -- 29 November 2004 |
Editor's Message
Quote/s of the Week
Ad Hoc Article/s of the Week
Bits and Bobs
The Legal Beagle
Help Desk
Where are they now?
Club and Other News
Humour
Recipes
Sports News
Credits and Contact Info
Subscribing and Unsubscribing
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We celebrated Thanksgiving this weekend – as it was not a public holiday on the actual day (Thursday) we had a big family lunch yesterday (Sunday) at my youngest son’s house.
I had ordered a specific size of turkey from our local Pick n Pay – and double checked that it would be there – even to the name of the person to ask for when it was collected. Captain Ken offered to collect it while I cooked the vegetarian portion of the meal early on Sunday morning... he phoned me from the store to say that the only turkey that was available was one about three times bigger than the one I had ordered!
I persuaded him to return to the butchery and speak to the contact person that I had spoken to earlier. When he did that he eventually got the correct turkey and we all breathed a sigh of relief! The bigger turkey would not have fitted into the oven we were using!
The meal turned out well. Lots to eat and great South African red and white wines to drink! It is still strange to him that the weather is getting warmer towards Thanksgiving and Christmas instead of metres and metres of snow already!
These from me...
Success, of course, has many components. Work alone may be fruitless without goals and careful planning.
As Ben Franklin wisely observed, “Never confuse motion with action.”
And from Henry Ford, “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” Focus is likely the key to making one’s work pay off.
Film making legend, Cecil B. DeMille, declared, “The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
Send in any quotes you love... that have some special meaning for you... and I will use at least one every week. Usual address! editor@saw.co.za
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Coming Home
Welcome to our new section! Each week we will feature a question and answer sent in to the Company for Immigration. We hope these will help answer any questions you might have regarding any part of the coming home process. If you would like to send in your own question, please feel very free to do so.
We will also be featuring a great amount of information on the SAW Website (www.saw.co.za) under the Coming Home section. You can also find out info by visiting our newly relaunched site, South Africa Online (www.southafrica.co.za) and checking out the Coming to SA section.
Here is a bit more info...
Whenever and wherever South Africans meet, the surest way to start a lively discussion, is to ask someone for an opinion about emigration from or remigration back to South Africa. In 2002 we (i.e. the non-profit immigration service, Company for Immigration, and the trade-union, Solidarity) realized that the return of South African expats had become a fact and that their inputs are essential for the growth and development of the country. We are neither interested in a debate about the reasons why people leave or come back, nor about the merit of their decisions. We prefer to provide a practical service instead:
offering advice and assistance to prospective remigrants;
addressing the problems which cause people to emigrate; and informing people about the pros and cons of emigration, to help them make an informed decision before leaving.
Interested? Want to receive our monthly newsletter by email? Have questions or suggestions? If so, please visit our mirror sites www.comehome.co.za or www.komhuistoe.co.za and leave your details on the visitor's page, or contact us at admin@cfi.org.za. We are looking forward to hearing from you!
Alana & Annatjie
COME HOME CAMPAIGN
The Good News
Guy is up in Johannesburg today (Monday) for a book launch – his good news article will be back next week.
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52 Best Stories – A Christmas Memory
We had gotten up early, my daughter and I
we hurried to the stores, my how time does fly.
I had worked all week, I needed a break
a trip to the mall, that's all it would take.
We shopped and looked, till time to eat
we loved McDonald's, that was always our treat.
It was kind of a ritual, early morning and noon
just the two of us shopping, then stopping for food.
I gave in my order, she gave in hers too
we stepped back and waited, what else could we do.
The place was all crowded, folks everywhere
the bustle of Christmas was filling the air.
We gathered our burgers, our cokes and our fries
I wanted some coffee, it was cold outside.
I went to the counter to get a hot brew
I planned to enjoy my daughter and my food.
When all of a sudden, from the corner of my eye
I saw an old man who was sitting close by.
His clothes were old, his beard was long
I knew in an instant he had no home.
He sat there in silence, just rubbing his hands
I was drawn to him, I didn't understand.
I started to eat, then started to cry
I couldn't put the old gentleman out of my mind.
I looked at my daughter, she too had a tear
what we had to do was now so clear.
I walked to the counter and inquired of the girl
about the little man, sitting in his own little world.
She said she had watched him count out his change
what she said next filled my heart with pain.
He ordered a cup of something hot
laid down twenty-five cents, said that's all I've got.
He had to choose between eating or being warm
so he drank his coffee in a booth all alone.
I gave her some money, I said feed him well
but I made her promise not to ever tell.
She said with a smile, I'll do just that
then she loaded a tray and went to where he sat.
He did not ask, as she did sat down the tray
what happened next, I remember to this day.
I happened to look up in a little while
and through the mirror, I saw him smile.
He looked straight at me, somehow he just knew
for as he wiped his chin, he mouthed "thank you."
She never told him, he didn't see
how could this stranger know it was me?
I looked away to dry me eyes
when I looked back I was surprised.
Just as fast as he came, that's how fast he was gone
but the feeling inside, I would carry home.
Who was this man, all weary and worn
could he have been an angel, in manly form?
Take heed lest we entertain angels unaware
This is a true story. It happened to me and my daughter.
~ Written by Sharon Streege who has her website at
http://www.geocities.com/sosstop/ Copyright 12/12/01 ~
http://www.52best.com/memory.asp
One Man’s Australia
Benefits but no returns
There's nothing like a bit of nation building to bring out the worst in politicians, and 2004 has proved to be a bumper year. It started in January with the Alice to Darwin railway.
The main function of this line appears to be to carry bales of eastern States taxpayers' money north and bring empty beer kegs south for refilling - and, of course, save a Northern Territory seat for the Howard Government. Its economic return was succinctly summed up by Patrick's (the biggest rail transport company in Australia) Chris Corrigan, a businessman who knows a thing or three about transport, as smaller than a tick's testicles.
Naturally the Prime Minister couldn't produce any convincing economic cost-benefit analysis to justify his spending on this entirely political project. Asked by the ABC's Alexandra Kirk when taxpayers might see a return on their money, Howard headed straight for the good old nation-building button.
"Alex, there are occasions in the building of a nation where you have to listen to the theoretical economic advice. You have to think yes. Look in present-day circumstances and you'd say no, But if you're thinking of the future, if you're wanting to build something that captures a nation's imagination, you have to back your own judgment."
A useful rule of thumb for judging the worth of projects supported by politicians babbling about nation building arises from this episode - be deeply suspicious of any project that is compared with the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme.
The Prime Minister christened the Alice to Darwin rail link the "Snowy of Steel". The Snowy Scheme was an engineering marvel. It was also the great white whale of nation-building projects, encouraging uneconomic irrigation areas that added to Murray River pollution and salination, ruined the Snowy River and was of doubtful economic merit. On environmental grounds alone it could not be contemplated today.
This rule needs to be borne in mind when thinking about AusLink, the latest mega-billion ($11.8billion to be precise) nation-building scheme. Announcing it in June, Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson described AusLink as "the equivalent of two Snowy Mountains Schemes". Uh oh!
He also said it was Australia's first national land transport plan since Federation, which explains the curiously prolonged divergence of rail gauges between the states. Ominously, the states have already been jacking up on the plan, not least about its overtly political content as it spent its way through marginal seats.
Unlike the Alice to Darwin boondoggle, there is no doubt about the need for a national transport strategy. According to government forecasts, from 2000 to 2020 non-bulk road freight will double, interstate road freight will more than double and passenger movements will grow by 40 per cent.
The general concept, with its selection of strategic national transport corridors, also makes sense. The problem is that the individual projects involved have not been ranked on the basis of cost-benefit analysis. Without it, how do we know the projects that offer the best economic and social returns have been selected? We don't.
Cost-benefit analysis is a simple enough concept - the idea is to rank projects according to the benefits delivered, so that scarce public funds are directed to projects that offer the highest returns. The AusLink white paper prepared by the commonwealth Department of Transport and Regional Services acknowledges its importance, although not until page 97 of a 134-page document. It prefers to call it benefit-cost analysis - politicians always like to put the benefits first.
In principle, its proposals for project assessment are sensible. The paper suggests a three-stage process. The first is a "strategic merit test", a quick assessment of whether any project meets the plan's objectives, whether it is feasible, if there are alternatives and so on. If not, it gets no further, which saves wasting resources assessing projects that have no chance of being accepted. The next two stages consist of a "rapid" benefit-cost analysis, followed by a detailed benefit-cost analysis.
The white paper goes on to say that in some circumstances "adjusted" benefit-cost ratios might be calculated to take account of factors outside the scope of normal benefit-cost analysis, "or apply nominated values to particular costs and benefits". It also says the results of benefit-cost analyses cannot, and will not, be the sole determinant of the composition of future versions of the national plan. "Projects assessed as having a lower benefit-cost ratio will not be precluded from funding where, for example, they improve flood immunity in rural or remote areas or are essential for safety reasons".
Why improving flood immunity or safety wouldn't be taken into account in assessing the social rate of return is not immediately obvious. But wanting to take account of factors other than economic efficiency and rates of return is perfectly legitimate, provided it is done in a consistent and transparent way, so politicians have to publicly justify any departures from the basic benefit-cost rule.
The white paper authors assure us it will be, but you have to wonder. This year's $11.8billion first tranche of the national plan doesn't appear to apply a benefit-cost assessment to any of the projects it proposes to fund, although a fine political calculus is readily evident. Nor does it mention that price - charging trucks the real cost of using roads, for example - is an essential part of any national transport strategy.
In the absence of any benefit-cost analysis, one is entitled to suspect that some, perhaps many, of the funding targets announced last week will yield economic benefits in the tick's testicles and bee's dick category.
But to return to the Snowy River project. What benefit-cost analysis in the late 1940s could possibly have seen what the main benefit of the project would be?
Its labour demands over the 25 years, from 1950 to 1975, it took to complete were so enormous that they were far beyond the resources of the nation to fund them.
So lateral thinking had to be resorted to - resulting in the importation of massive numbers of skilled men from southern Europe (still suffering from the impact of WW2). Their families accompanied them or followed.
The result was the social re-engineering of Australia from a predominantly Anglo-Celtic to a multicultural nation where 51% of the current population are migrants and their children and where Italian, Croat, Serbian and Greek names already have become mainstream.
Northern Lighties
Sushi
Pronounced : 'sü-shE
: cold rice dressed with vinegar, formed into any of various shapes, and garnished especially with bits of RAW fish or shellfish
If we weren’t going into winter I would be inclined to think that there has been a collective outbreak of heatstroke in the various legislatures and Law courts around Ontario.
You will note from the description above that Sushi has as its base ingredient RAW fish. OK, as I will explain later Sashimi is in fact the true Japanese name for raw fish but as most of the public insists on calling anything with raw fish in it Sushi lets carry on with that premise.
Raw fish is called sashimi in Japan and is not the same as sushi. Sushi is food that uses rice seasoned with sweet rice-wine vinegar. Raw fish is the most popular ingredient in sushi, but the main element of sushi is Japanese sticky rice. There are many kinds of sushi, which don't include raw fish. Cooked fish, shellfish, and various other ingredients can be combined in sushi.
The origin of sushi is not Japanese. Sushi was introduced into Japan in the 7th century from China. People began making sushi to preserve fish by fermentation when there were no refrigerators. Since salt and rice were needed in order to ferment fish, sushi came to be closely related to rice in Japan. Over time it developed into the current sushi, which combines fish and rice. Sushi is low in fat and a very nutritious food. The fish in sushi provides protein and can be a good source of omega-3 fatty acids.
All of which means nothing at all when it comes to the health-nazi’s of Ontario.
Drunk with power now that the Lieberals are inhibiting the hallowed halls of Government and clamping down or banning everything in sight (dogs, smoking, food in schools), this week provided one of the more sublime pieces of stupidity seen for a while.
They banned the use of raw fish in the making of Sushi!
Based on the possible chance that a parasite found in raw fish may make Canadians sick the Ontario Ministry of Health stood up and smugly announced that for the good of everyone Sushi would henceforth have to be made with flash-frozen fish or fish that had been refrigerated.
Here is the best part of that strange logic. There have to date been no reported cases of anyone on Canada getting the parasite from eating sushi.
Not that this stopped the ubermeisters-of-what-is-good-for-you from proudly announcing their intentions anyway.
I was a bit surprised that this took place but for a very different reason. I have come to expect the average knee jerk reaction to anything the Lieberals disagree with being to ban it, but this treads heavily on Cultural sensibilities. Something that the Lieberals bend over backwards to promote. So I didn’t expect them to ban a food that has managed to transcend cultural barriers and become a favourite of all people.
Which just goes to show.
Right now the health nazi’s are working on banning junk food in junior schools, pit-bulls and smoking within a million miles of Canada’s borders.
No! Sorry.
Just recently the Ontario Government has in fact banned pit-bull ownership, banned junk food in junior schools and are currently negotiating a 100 kilometre no-smoking zone around Ontario (please throw your stompies in the United States. That will teach Bush to hurt our little lieberal sensibilities by winning again!)
The pit-bull ban was another hastily rushed piece of legislation after a spate of very public attacks that owed their visibility more to the news medias sense of what makes a good story than to reality.
Reality says that the dog that bites the most is one that is seen as “family friendly” and so not newsworthy, while the pit-bull is seen as a vicious killer and so every attack must be played up as such.
The Ontario Government though needs to be seen to be doing something for a change and so they rushed through the ban.
The trouble with all these bannings is that inside you a little voice says that something has to be done about smoking and junk food in schools and pit-bulls (not sushi though) but this reliance on Governments taking such action on all and sundry is very disturbing.
In the meantime when I take out that special someone to a Sushi bar will I be forced to go underground and dodge the sushi police? Have to stay at home and rely on my own skills at slicing up freshly caught fish? Even the three eyed Lake Ontario variety?
Just how many years in prison will I get if I get caught eating sushi? More important is whether I could claim refugee status in Japan on the premise that I am member of a repressed minority. (Apparently no one in the Health Department eats sushi in Ontario)
To date however I have not heard one mention of the word Sashimi in this whole debacle. Which you will note from my remarks earlier is the true raw fish food.
So my understanding is that I become a criminal if I eat sushi made with raw fish and can guzzle to my hearts content on sashimi for the time being.
Strange.
Almost as strange as the court case we had recently where a woman was acquitted of a traffic violation because the traffic sign wasn’t in French.
The woman in question, a lawyer herself, was charged with making an illegal left turn against a posted traffic sign.
Her lawyer (who is an articled student, was arguing his third case in court and no doubt will make a brilliant lawyer one day) argued that because the sign did not have French on it was invalid and therefore his client shouldn’t be fined. As he put it:
“ We don’t dispute that she turned left. We don’t dispute that she didn’t see the sign. What we contend is that the sign itself is null and void.”
Which the Justice of the Peace agreed with and then tossed the case out of court.
The beauty of this case is that the woman in question doesn’t even speak French! She does however have a smart lawyer to be and a judge with very little common sense.
Which goes a long way to explaining our Justice system in Ontario and why we have so many ludicrous judgments taking place.
Actually no it doesn’t.
Too many drugs in the sixties is probably a better explanation.
Or maybe the only case in Ontario of a parasite ingested from eating sushi making its way to the brain and altering whatever common sense may have been there.
Boetjie Worldwide
Of this and that…
The last few weeks have been rather eventful and I have to apologise for my long absence, but writing this column unfortunately had to move onto the back burner for a while, as you will appreciate when you read on.
My mother back in South Africa passed away recently, which was really a shock, as she had been doing quite well just before. I spoke to her on the phone on her 78th birthday and she was quite clear and not at all confused. She’d been suffering from emphysema for some years now, and her heart had not been all that good, either, but we did not expect her to pass away quite yet… Of course it has been hard on my sister, brother and me – especially my brother and I because we have not seen her for quite some time, what with him being in the US and me being here in Australia. At least my sister still lives in SA and had been able to visit the old girl fairly frequently, although it’s a long drive from Port Elizabeth to Grabouw in the Cape.
One bright light in the grief has been the thought that she is now better off, free from pain and suffering and reunited with my father, I believe. Her life was a hard one, but she always said that she would not have had it any differently. Bringing up three children while constantly on the move as a result of my father being transferred regularly could not have been easy, and we were never wealthy by any stretch of the imagination. However, we always had a happy household and I never heard my mother complaining, but then she was of farming stock and used to working hard. I know that inactivity was dreadful for her; she simply could not sit still and watch others work!
On the bright side: my 16-year-old daughter is en route from Cape Town to Melbourne via Dubai as I write this, and should be here late tonight. She will be visiting us until middle January, so we will have some quality time together after two long years apart. That is one of the disadvantages of divorce and the subsequent splitting apart of families. Of course I am here because I want to be, but it remains hard, coping with the separation!
A recent discussion in one of the SA-related Internet groups I belong to has once again made me realise how difficult relocation is for many people. One particular SA expat was complaining about the British aloofness. She had been to see Ladysmith Black Mambazo performing in Manchester, and could not believe the audience’s lack of response to the music. This prompted another member to remark how apathetic Western Europeans are in general, and then some wild comments starting flying about “culture” – a veritable minefield of a topic.
Now, while we may disagree with the customs and attitudes of our new countries, and while we should never lose our critical faculties, the fact remains that we still need to be tolerant and understanding. African music will always evoke a different response in us than in anyone else, just as we will never be able to appreciate something like Morris dancing as much as a Brit would. It is precisely this diversity in culture that makes travel interesting and rewarding, not to mention enriching. Chucking a blanket of disapproval over everything not our own is not a very intelligent way of doing things, and certainly not conducive to happiness! Any expat who finds himself exposed to a completely new and different culture (in the broadest sense of the term) and does not use the opportunity to expand his own view of the world, should return home, wherever that may be. I have already written about carrying one’s own discontent or unhappy frame of mind abroad, so I won’t go there again!
Yes, true enough, in many places newcomers remain exactly that because they are not easily accepted, so why compound matters by refusing to at least credit one’s new surroundings with what’s good and interesting? If I had never lived in a Portuguese country, I would have missed out of the full delight of the fado or the enjoyment to be had from listening to a student tuna (a group of singers performing songs about student life). Nor would I have been able to appreciate the intense religious fervour that sustains a community that lives on volcanic islands. I would not have been able to gain a better understanding of Japanese history, culture and what makes the people tick, had I never spent time in the Land of the Rising Sun. Hanging Rock would forever have remained a dimly grasped idea, rather than the intensely mystical place it really is, had I not actually climbed to the summit of the hill. These places, concepts or events are not better than anything in South Africa, nor are they worse – they are different and one should appreciate them for exactly that reason.
It is so easy and tempting to stereotype people or cultures, but it remains a fool’s exercise. We KNOW that, just as not all South Africans are the same, so no other nationality is made up of identical individuals, yet we easily fall into the trap of committing exactly that fallacy. I could say that Australian males have beer bellies, wear sleeveless T-shirts (called “muscle shirts” here!), don’t go anywhere without baseball caps on their heads, have tattoos, end every sentence with “mayhte” and drive hideously over-powered bakkies they call “utes” and love more than their wives or girlfriends, or that they come across as somewhat dim-witted. That would be amusing, yes, but pretty far from the truth! Some of the most passionate people I have ever met have been British; some of the most sensitive have been French, some of the most disorganised German, et cetera… but they are all very much human and worth knowing. Therefore, no matter how comforting it may be to stereotype another people and then dismiss them, no matter how much better it makes one feel about oneself, it is not a healthy exercise, and certainly won’t make one feel any happier…
And so, to end this somewhat shorter than usual gabble with my trade mark little exhortation: hey, live and let live, ek sê, and give the other okes a chance, or what?!
Have a smile – and mooiloop!
Ray
Raytheron at iprimus.com.au
Nobody needing advice this week.
Hi Maureen
Just some good news feed back. About 7 months ago I asked SAW's legal beagles for advice on how to go ahead with my green card lottery application (I was a winner in the 2005 green card lottery). The advice was very good and myself and my wife were issued with our immigration visas yesterday so we will be off to America soon. Do you know of any South African clubs in Massachusetts?
Thanks Maureen and the legal beagles for your help.
Regards
Scott Murray
Scott.Murray@ESBI.IE
If you are looking for a lost friend... if you would like old friends to contact you... If you want to find old school friends... if you just want people who used to know you to find you again for a chat...
Send in your info, the info of anyone you are looking for and let’s see if we can find them for you!
Can you help me find an old friend named Greg Coad? Greg worked at Coopers & Lybrand in Jhb in the late 80’s and then went on to open a pizza store in Pretoria. In early 90’s he was still in Pretoria. Greg’s family lived in Durban while I knew him. Please contact me at evvy@edmunds.com. Greg would know me as Evvy Markantonis.
Can you also help me find Margaret O’Donnell who I worked with at Merck Pharmaceuticals in the early 80’s in Jhb? Margaret was married to Gerry and has a daughter called Sharon. Margaret has a sister living in Jhb named Penny Henderson who is married to Douglas and has 2 girls. Last I heard Margaret was in New Zealand.
Thanks,
Evvy
No new news this week.
Small Talk
This from Colin Morgan colin.morgan@t-systems.co.za
Two little kids are in a hospital, lying on stretchers next to each other outside the operating room.
The first kid leans over and asks, "What are you in here for?"
The second kid says, "I'm in here to get my tonsils out and I'm a little nervous."
The first kid says, "You've got nothing to worry about. I had that done when I was four. They put you to sleep, and when you wake up they give you lots of jelly and ice cream. It's a breeze."
The second kid then asks, "What are you here for?"
The first kid says, "A circumcision."
And the second kid says, "Whoa, Good luck buddy, I had that done when I was born. Couldn't walk for a year."
This is what I made yesterday for the vegetarian main course at our Thanksgiving dinner. Matthew and I had slices of the roast cold with chutney in sandwiches for lunch today!
Lentil chestnut roast
2 cups orange lentils picked over and rinsed well
water to cover (do not use too much water as you need it to boil off by the end of the cooking time)
1 Tbs olive oil
1 small onion chopped fine
2 stalks celery chopped
2 carrots grated
2 cloves garlic, minced or chopped fine
2 tsp Marmite (or to taste)
1 Tbs tomato ketchup
1 Tbs vegan Worcestershire sauce
1Tbs low sodium soy sauce
1 tsp dried sage
½ tsp Mrs Dash or other seasoning
2 Tbs heaped ground flaxseeds mixed with ½ cup water and left to stand for about five minutes to thicken (if you eat eggs this represents two beaten eggs)
Filling:
Unsalted chestnuts – packet or tin or fresh roasted – about 1½ to 2 cups finely chopped
1 small onion finely chopped and fried gently in 1 tsp olive oil
½ cup dried breadcrumbs
1 Tbs freshly ground flaxseed mixed with ¼ cup water and left to stand for about five minutes to thicken (if you eat eggs this represents one beaten egg)
1 tsp dried thyme
Method:
Bring water and lentils to boil. Skim off any foam and simmer VERY gently until cooked and virtually dry. This should take about 15 minutes. Check to make sure there is enough water still left in the lentils so they do not burn but the end result should be very dry and quite stiff.
While the lentils are still warm add the Marmite and mix to distribute through the mix.
While the lentils are cooking, fry the onion, celery, garlic and carrot in the olive oil until soft – about 10 minutes.
In the lentil pan add the onion mixture and mix well. Add the rest of the ingredients and mix well again. The mix must be very stiff but thoroughly blended.
Mix the chopped chestnuts with the rest of the filling ingredients and blend well.
Grease a loaf tin and place half of the lentil mix in a layer. Put the filling/stuffing in next and spread it out. Place the remainder of the lentil mix on top and smooth to cover completely.
Bake at 350 F for about 30 – 40 minutes. Cook in loaf pan and serve with gravy and whatever other veggies you wish. Can also be eaten cold and sliced. Can also be frozen and then reheated.
Serves 6 – 8 as a main course.
Pirates open gap at the top [iafrica.com]
Orlando Pirates have increased their lead at the top of the Castle Premiership after having registered their first ever win over Silver Stars in a PSL match played at the Peter Mokaba Stadium on Sunday afternoon.
http://sport.iafrica.com/news/topstory/393825.htm
Burger is IRB Player of the year [IRB]
IRB Awards success for Schalk Burger, Jake White and their teammates cap a fine year of international achievement for South Africa.
http://www.awards.irb.com/AWARDS+NEWS/results+roundup.htm
Burger to play for Baabaas [Super Sport]
IRB International Player of the Year Schalk Burger is one of three Springboks who will play for the Barbarians against the All Blacks this coming Saturday at Twickenham.
http://www.superrugby.co.za/default.asp?id=132...
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