Eighty
minutes of
heroics
WHAT a cracker of a game this was. That breakaway try by Rhyno Smith. That touchdown by Lukhanyo Am after a phase of rucking and passing, minutes after the fulltime hooter had sounded. This was the real deal. Ole, ole, ole! Who really believed the Sharks could pull it off?
This was 80 minutes of heroism, as good as any I've seen. Sustained, deadly tackling against a Stormers side who were oh so dangerous. Sustained rucking for possession. Wonderful handling. Superbo!
Now it's the Brumbies, down in Van Diemensland in the quarter-finals. Anything can happen. What a wonderful way to end the local leg of the competition.
The outcome was, of course, met with great jubilation by the damsels of the Street Shelter for the Over-Forties, whose celebrations were lively and uninhibited, but are perhaps best not described too closely in a respectable newspaper.
What a match – more to follow! Erewego, erewego, erewego!
Howzat!
AND the Proteas have finally done it, a thumping win over Afghanistan. Don't snigger. They're there at the World Cup. Faf du Plessis is right, there are no minnows.
New Zealand next. Let's go!
Monster wedding
YOU need to read the regular grumpy newsletter of investment analyst Dr James Greener to keep up with the celebs of international high society.
It had escaped me that the Gupta family – who most of us have heard of - are about to stage another controversial family wedding on foreign territory, at vast expense.
However, Greener fills us in. "The Gupta family seemingly has no money worries thanks to their highly successful hijacking of a whole national economy. Ours!
"The leaking of their plans for yet more lavish weddings (not in Sun City this time) is clearly a deliberate ploy to show off their success in circumventing just about every anti-fraud and foreign exchange regulation that exists in South Africa."
It transpires that two Gupta sons are to be hitched at a R247 million knees-up later this month at Auli ski resort in the Indian Himalayas, which is in an environmentally fragile locality.
According to The Times of India, such a gathering would conflict with an Indian High Court order.
Environmental activist Ravinder Jugran says: "A High Court order is being kept at bay to please the brothers and all rules are being bypassed to facilitate the Gupta wedding."
Does any of this sound familiar?
Oh deer
POLICE in Texas surrounded a house in the town of Lufkin. The woman owner had heard glass breaking, phoned the cops then jumped into a cupboard to hide, according to Huffington Post.
The cops bust in. "Police! Let's see your hands!"
It meant nothing to the deer - a doe – that had got into the house, but she was terrified. The cops holstered their weapons picked up chairs and chivvied her outside.
Tailpiece
VAN der Merwe is on holiday in England. He's invited to participate in a fox hunt. A keen horseman back home at Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein, he takes to fox-hunting like a duck to water. He takes his mount over the hedges, the gates and the ditches with aplomb. He leads the hunt, an absolute natural.
At drinks afterwards his host says: "By jove, Van, you're sensational on horseback. What a hunt you hand!"
"Thanks, Sir Maurice."
"One small thing though. In fox-hunting we call: 'Tally-ho the fox!'. Not: 'Daargaatdieblerriejakkalsskiethom!'"
Last word
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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