James Small: The rugby rebel who Mandela never forgot

James Small was the rebel in the ultra-conservative world of South African rugby in the early 1990s. He played hard, lived fast, and was driven to become a record-breaker and Rugby World Cup winner by a basic desire to beat a system that told him that he couldn’t.
At a time when South Africans were breaking through the barriers of apartheid, people loved him for it. Even Nelson Mandela.
He rode a Harley Davidson motorbike and had tattoos. Model good looks were set against a shaved Army-sty