It's the flag, and it is beloved like nothing else in South Africa. You see it everywhere ... the first five years of his life in an apartheid state. His father, Nico van der Dussen, was among ...

It costs more than USD11,000 a year to keep the tallest flag in South Africa in the required state of splendour. Next to the price of fielding first at St George's Park, that's a pittance.