From all accounts Springbok coach Peter de Villiers is happy to embrace the thoughts of his senior players before he decides the appropriate strategy, writes Wynne Gray in the New Zealand Herald.
"Whatever the state of collaborative interplay between de Villiers, his staff and senior players, something has been working for the Springboks. They have beaten the Lions and so far in the Tri-Nations have been beaten just once, last weekend by the Wallabies.
"It has been some journey for the 51-year-old coach who grew up in the apartheid era when he suffered some unpalatable treatment.
"He and his daughter were chased out of a park by security guards because of their colour and under the distasteful Group Areas Act was relocated in the Cape. By all accounts a handy halfback, de Villiers chose to remain with a Coloured club during his playing days. He has fought for his rights and battled against prejudice throughout his life."
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