Johan van Vuuren

[Johan van Vuuren @johanvanvuuren9]

@hershybru @10bet_ZA If we go in with six batters, I believe it is a choice between Rickleton and Verreyne to keep and maybe Ackermann to open

[Johan van Vuuren @johanvanvuuren9]

@RugbyBits Boan out, Grobbies in. BJD out Ruan Venter in. Edwill out, Moodie in

[Johan van Vuuren @johanvanvuuren9]

@grantbn6 Guys you are missing are Goolam Rajah (logistics), Mike Proctor (Coach), Graig Smith (physio) and Fritz Bing (Manager)

[Johan van Vuuren @johanvanvuuren9]

https://t.co/yJ5XJ4hcOg

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@SABCNews D

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@jaredwright17 Wondered what would have happened had Rassie an co given the replacement 6 to Cam Hanekom?

[Josiah @josiahjdp]

My daughter Laura’s funeral was the bleakest day of my life.
The church was packed—coworkers, neighbors, distant relatives, and strangers whose faces I barely knew, all gathered to mourn her. White and blush flowers crowded the altar, their sweet scent heavy in the warm air. Candles trembled in tall brass holders, throwing unsteady light across the ancient stone walls. Somewhere behind it all, the organ played a slow funeral hymn I had heard too many times before.

And still, in the middle of all those people, I had never felt so alone.

I stood a short distance from the closed casket, my hands hanging uselessly by my sides. I stared at the polished wood as though looking hard enough might somehow make it open, might let me hear her voice one last time. Just once. Long enough for her to tell me, “Dad, it’s okay. I’m fine. There’s been some mistake.”

But coffins don’t make mistakes, and death doesn’t bargain.

Laura had been my whole world. She was the reason I kept going after everything else had fallen apart. When her mother died, the house became an empty shell. Every room echoed. The bed felt too wide and too cold. That first night, I watched my little girl cry herself to sleep, her tiny shoulders trembling under the blanket, and I made a silent promise—to her and to whatever force might be listening—that I would protect her no matter what it cost me.

And I did.

I raised her alone. At first awkwardly, then with the fierce devotion only a widowed father truly understands. I worked two jobs, sometimes three, to give her every chance. I learned to braid hair badly, ruined more dinners than I can count, and sat up late helping with homework I barely understood. The day she got into college, I cried alone in the kitchen. The day she graduated, I clapped until my palms stung and shouted her name until my throat hurt.

I had shown up for every milestone in her life.

And I had been there the day she introduced me to Daniel.

Even standing beside her casket, the thought of him crept into my mind and tightened my throat with grief and resentment. Daniel stood near the first pew in a perfect black suit, every hair in place, his face arranged into an expression of noble suffering. People kept approaching him, touching his sleeve, shaking his hand, whispering condolences as though he were the one who had suffered the deepest loss.

[Johan van Vuuren @johanvanvuuren9]

@jaredwright17 Average age?

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@jaredwright17 Rassie has picked 43 players for the first three matches. Team of unused players: 1. Nyakane 2. Van der Merwe 3. Fouche 4. Etzebeth 5. De Jager 6. Kolisi 7. Venter. 8. Kwagga 9. Krappies 10. Sascha 11. Jooste 12. Am 13. Van Wyk. 14. Muller 15 Seb de Klerk

[Johan van Vuuren @johanvanvuuren9]

@soltllez21 Shout out from South Africa.....for the face and the body....

[Johan van Vuuren @johanvanvuuren9]

@SaffasRugby Too expensive

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@Arden_2210 44

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@ConanOBrien Need to get you in South Africa Conan. It might just blow your mind sir....

[Johan van Vuuren @johanvanvuuren9]

@SagarH62 South African team: B Richards, G Smith, Peter Kirsten, G Pollock, J Kallis, AB de Villiers (wk), M Proctor, S Pollock, D Steyn, K Maharaj, A Donald.

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@SagarH62 Barry Richards

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@TheMindScourge Looks like Cape Town will be making some good money....

[Johan van Vuuren @johanvanvuuren9]

@randomcricfacts @Weirdgripping84 Absolute bullshit man. Thise were the allegations made, but it was false and she was absolved

[Johan van Vuuren @johanvanvuuren9]

@jaredwright17 Elrich Louw?

[Johan van Vuuren @johanvanvuuren9]

@jaredwright17 Elrich Louw?

[Johan van Vuuren @johanvanvuuren9]

@CaptSpringbok What do you make of the ommission of Elrich Louw?