Cavaliers v SA Newlands Moolman": Springbok lock Louis Moolman leaps for the ball in a lineout during the first Test against the Cavaliers at Newlands.
In April 1986, just six months after PW Botha had wagged his finger at the world and committed South Africa to another era on the wrong side of the Rubicon, 30 rugby players slipped clandestinely out of New Zealand and popped up in Johannesburg — to the great surprise and delight of Springbok fans.
South African rugby had just joined its cricket counterparts in staging a rebel tour.
The eagerly awaited sequel to the tumultuous 1981 tour of New Zealand had been scheduled by the International Rugby Board for 1985, but the New Zealand government canned the tour.
Annoyed Bok fans were still brooding over the lost chance to get even with the All Blacks when Louis Luyt, the Transvaal Rugby Union, and Yellow Pages (the business telephone directory company) collaborated to recruit the '85 All Black tour squad minus just two players in scrumhalf David Kirk and wing John Kirwan.
