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Memories

I remember the 1970 All Black tour. I was just a laaitie, 7 odd years old, and my memories has me, my dad and my brother in it, listening to Gerhard Viviers' commentary on the Afrikaans radio station. We bought a long playing record of his commentary of one of the test matches later. I remember Sid Nomis' try: "Siddie! Siddie! En hy druk hom!" You go listen, those are the exact words Gerhard used - I still remember them from that time. Both my dad and my boet are gone now. Sometimes I miss them so much. But I have these memories with them, and dudes wearing a Bok on a green and gold jersey on it. Now these guys want to take the Bok away. And I don't like it, because they are messing with the memories. At the same time, I read just now that there were already protests going on in 1970. So there are different memories about these same events, and I acknowledge that those may be memories people want to exorcise. I didn't know about those protests at th