10 FEBRUARY 1996, page 55

Spectator Sport

The poorer the better Simon Barnes THERE ARE people who think that rugby, or even cricket, is the national game of South Africa. But they are wrong. The national game of South......

Your Problems Solved

Dear Mary. . . Q. Last weekend a neighbour in our village called out the fire brigade to attend to a chimney fire in his house. To my astonish- ment the fellow started to prance......