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Monumetal embarrassment for South Africans has been averted by the abandonment of Jake White's plan to revive a Zulu dance that the Springboks did (very badly) in a few pre-war tests - as an answer to the haka - before flagging it as a bad joke.
Present Springboks were mortified when their coach put forward the idea for inclusion at the World Cup.
A scan through the history books shows that when the Boks did their dance in front of the 1928 All Blacks at Kingsmead in Durban, the crowd burst out laughing at the shambling, out-of-time-movements that were accompanied by a chant that was a mixture of "bad Zulu and gibberish".
White is making sure he leaves not even the smallest pebble unturned it seems and when a travel leg on the Boks' pre-World Cup tour to Ireland and Scotland went horribly wrong, White claimed it was part of a plan to shock the players out of their comfort zone.
The Boks took 13 hours to travel from Galway in Ireland to Peebles in Edinburgh the day after they beat Connacht, and three days before they played the test against Scotland. The roundabout route took in Shannon and ventured all the way south to London before heading back up to Scotland.
