I must say it is terribly sad to see how half of the teams get to leave the World Cup so quickly. The business end of the tournament goes much slower, with far fewer teams, and that is understandable, but one just wishes you could have 32 teams in the country for longer!

Every part of the country and Sandton in particular, seems to have a wonderful vibe and it is probably best encapsulated at Nelson Mandela Square, where at my favourite coffee shop, I struggle to get a table these days and all around me all I hear are different accents. It has a wonderful cosmopolitan feel and I really hope that we are going to be given another dream to aspire to – by that I don’t mean another Rugby World Cup, which will be nice and which of course we will get, or another World Cup in terms of cricket – which is inevitable given how many different tournaments there are in cricket these days, but something major like the Olympics. We will always use the line that Africa has to have its turn and we better keep hammering away at that, until they give us another major event to build and work towards.