Ja-Nee: The Story Behind the Game (SA vs British Lions) 2nd test June 22 1974

Ja-Nee is not just an insiders account of what it means to be a young Springbok on the darkest day in South African rugby history the afternoon when Willie John McBrides 1974 British Lions scored five tries to beat the Boks 28-9 at a packed Loftus Versfeld but an insightful and sometimes hilarious study of two very different cultures.

After a shock first test defeat against the Lions, in an atmosphere of panic, the selectors made seven changes to the Springbok side and Macdonald, the 24-year-old eighth man who played for the University of Cape Town and Western Province, was called up for the second test. Weaving his own experience of the test through the commentaries of Gerhard Viviers, the voice of Springbok Rugby, SABCs Kim Shippey and BBCs Alun Williams, Macdonald tells the minute by minute story of that catastrophic winter afternoon.