Leading Edge: Roots of modern malaise are in the past

Sunday Times

TELFORD VICE, Johannesburg

Maybe the moment of our growing up was Lance Klusener and Allan Donald being caught with their pants down in their Y-front shirts on that awful day at Edgbaston in 1999.

Perhaps it was the slap of the Springboks being good enough to beat the rest of the world twice.

Or was it that not even wheeling out Nelson Mandela to secure the World Cup made mediocrities like Bafana win when they had no right to do so?

Whatever. The fact is South Africans have grown wear...