Deur Reporter 17 Oktober 2020 11:48
A screenshot of some of the memorabilia that are up for auction.
To all
of Mzansiâs rugby fans, hereâs a chance to support the game by taking part in
the Care 4 Kingsâ fundraising initiative.
A live online auction featuring rugby
memorabilia, the event will take place from 16 â 17 October, and will be
hosted by former Springbok rugby player, Braam van Straaten at www.care4kings.co.za.
All the earnings will go towards financially aiding the
Southern Kings players and staff, after the club announced insolvency on the 19
September 2020.Â
A great
number of players have come forward in support of the initiative, and have
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Grace Robertson, who has died aged 90 of a stroke, made her reputation in the 1950s as a freelance photojournalist on the weekly editorial magazine Picture Post.
One story, titled Mother’s Day Off, has become her signature. Early in her career, in 1954, she accompanied a group of Battersea “charladies” on their annual charabanc excursion to Margate in Kent. She accompanied them too, as she proudly recalled when she and I last met, in 2015, pint for pint (beer and cockles) and joke for joke, as she recorded their “exuberance”. An iconic image of the women having a laugh and a singalong – one seated on the lap of another, wearing outsized pantaloons over her skirt – was, according to Matthew Butson, director of the Getty Images Picture Post archive, “her most popular story … certainly the one she’ll be best remembered for”.