The atmosphere after winning the Rugby World Cup in 1995 was amazing. There were six of us that went to the match and left the stadium in a national delirium by 3 different routes. My brother was collecting Dom and I, my father-in-law was walking to his car with 2 friends and my father was…

My father was born in Benoni but they moved into Union Cafe and the house above it on 7th Avenue in Alberton a soon after that. It was an old style house built in the fifties. There was no front garden to speak of, with the front veranda facing the short garden wall with wrought…