James Small: The Springbok Who Died In A Strip Club
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There was something darkly comic about World Cup winning Springbok James Small, losing his life in a strip joint.
Some of us might have lost other things – our virginity, our wallets, our self-respect, we might even have lost our mates, or our marriage in a strip joint – but Small wasn’t a small gestures kind of guy. He was all in.
And there he was, at The Harem strip club in Bedfordview, a Johannesburg suburb, having his ticker call time on a life he seemed to lose long before he dropped dead.
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