I kicked in the wrong apartment door for Aled Walters ’cos I didn’t want to let him down

It was hard not to be moved by the scenes in Japan last weekend. A country beset by problems, economic and social, historic and contemporary, achieved what very few of their citizens thought possible at the beginning of 2019.

I kicked in the wrong apartment door for Aled Walters ’cos I didn’t want to let him down

It was hard not to be moved by the scenes in Japan last weekend. A country beset by problems, economic and social, historic and contemporary, achieved what very few of their citizens thought possible at the beginning of 2019.

Siya Kolisi, the boy from a Port Elizabeth township, lifted the Webb Ellis Cup as the first black man to captain the Springboks.

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