South Africa's midwinter madness
On the South African Highveld, from Bloemfontein to Johannesburg, the grass dies in the winter and it never rains. It is cold, often bitterly so. In Cape Town, by contrast, it normally rains a lot in the winter and the grass is saturated
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Neil Manthorp is a South African broadcaster and journalist, and head of the MWP Sport agency