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Being A Black Springbok - The Thando Manana Story (Paperback) Loot Price: R227
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Being A Black Springbok - The Thando Manana Story (Paperback)

Sibusiso Mjikeliso

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Thando Manana was the third black African player to don a Springbok jersey after unification in 1992, when he made his debut in 2000 in a tour game against Argentina A.

His route to the top of the game was unpredictable and unusual. From his humble beginnings in the township of New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, Thando grew to become one of the grittiest loose-forwards of South African rugby, despite only starting the game at the age of 16. His rise through rugby ranks, while earning a reputation as a tough-tackling lock and later openside flanker, was astonishingly rapid, especially for a player of colour at the time. Within two years of picking up a rugby ball, he represented Eastern Province at Craven Week, and by 2000 he was a Springbok. But it isn’t solely Thando’s rugby journey that makes Being A Black Springbok a remarkable sports biography. It’s learning how he has negotiated life’s perils and pitfalls, which threatened to derail both his sporting ambitions and the course of his life.

He had to negotiate an unlikely, but fateful, kinship with a known Port Elizabeth drug-lord, who took Thando under his wing when he was a young, gullible up-and-comer at Spring Rose. Rejected by his father early in his life, Thando had to deal with a sense of abandonment and a missing protective figure and find, along the way, people to lean on.

Thando tells his story with the refreshing candour he has become synonymous with as a rugby commentator, pundit and member of the infamous Room Dividers team on Metro FM. He has arguably become rugby’s strongest advocate for the advancement of black people’s interests in the sport, and his personal journey reveals why.

General

Imprint: Pan Macmillan
Country of origin: South Africa
Release date: June 2017
Authors: Sibusiso Mjikeliso
Dimensions: 234 x 153 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 978-1-77010-544-7
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Sport
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies
Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Ball games > Rugby football > Rugby Union
Books > History > History of specific subjects > General
Books > Biography > Sport
Books > Local Author Showcase > Sport & Leisure
Books > Promotion > Rugby World Cup
Books > Local Author Showcase > Biography > Sport
LSN: 1-77010-544-1
Barcode: 9781770105447

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