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Article: Back to the future at Saints festival; St Stithians tournament has a proud history of World Cup winners.(Sports)
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- The Star (South Africa)
- Article date:
- March 18, 2008
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BYLINE: Kevin McCallum
In the brochure for 25th St Stithians Rugby Festival, the event organiser, Piet van Tonder, is quoted as saying that there are three categories of spectators who attend the three days of rugby.
The first group are the current students and parents, who come to watch friends and family. The second are the old boys and girls of St Stithians, who return to meet up with old friends and, one suspects, speak wistfully - and with no small amount of exaggeration - in the hospitality area of the past, and of how much the festival, which is sponsored by First National Bank, has changed over the years and, yet, has somehow managed to retain ...