We Survived South Africa - Rugby's Greatest Rivalry
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What is the $14,000 All Blacks tour and what does it include?
Generate is supporting my vision to improve the financial literacy of 100,000 Kiwis by sponsoring Keep the Change. Cheers Generate! Head to generatekiwisaver.co.nz forward slash change to find out more. Lekker, shep, shep. Welcome from Johannesburg. Lekker, lekker. It is good to be here. The final day here in South Africa. Definitely thought I might be recording a little bit more content, but it hasn't been. But I've definitely got a little bit of energy going on Instagram for those who are tuning in. But I better quickly introduce my good mate Joshua sitting next to me. Came to South Africa with Josh as part of his birthday experience, his 40th birthday. I was his wingman, and that means that he seriously owes me an international trip for my 40th.
So, Josh, good to see you, mate. Good to have you on the mic.
Thanks for having me on the mic. And, yeah, looking forward to your 40th in a couple of years in Guatemala. It
should be really good. Do you want to give the people a quick insight as to why you were so keen to come on this tour? Yep,
being a big avid All Lakes fan, I've always wanted to come to South Africa. I remember getting up when I was a younger fella, watching the games specifically in Alice Park where they've got the planes flying over. So yeah, it was always on the agenda to try and get here at some stage and thankfully you decided you would come along with me.
Well, about 15,000, I believe, for the tour. Is that right, 14,000? I haven't heard that number,
but a lot of numbers have been banded about on tour. You were running the admin. Yeah, yeah. Not too sure if there was that many, but, yeah, there were definitely a lot of Kiwis that we saw.
Oh, no, I mean $14,000 was the cost. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was $14,000 Kiwi. I live in Australia, so it was a little bit cheaper for me. But yeah, $14,000, which I think has been money well spent.
It certainly has, which we'll dive into. So that didn't include flights, just as a heads up for people. But just about all of your food and beverages were included throughout the 10 days. We've done the 10-day tour. It was very, very well run by the All Blacks Hospitality Group. Their official name, Josh, we'll find that as we go. But they did a very good job. Nick Rowland, standout performer on the tour. But it looks like they subcontract out to a South Africa tour company as well. But anyway, Josh will take you through what the itinerary looked like for your $14,000. I believe there might have been 1,200 or so people on the wider tour. It ranged from 4 days to 10 days to 16 to 31.
Yeah, and what was probably surprising, what you just mentioned, is that the lack of money we actually had to spend ourselves. It was predominantly every day you got drinks or food included. So considering about 90% of our fellow colleagues on the tour were over the age of 65, they were very happy with that. They were always early to every bus
and to every buffet. Yeah. We were definitely the last ones to most of those. They don't mind lining up for a buffet, do they? Okay, so 10 days in South Africa, mate. Talk the people through at a very high level what the 10 days was going to look like for us.
Why did Joshua join the South Africa trip and how did the 10‑day itinerary unfold?
Yeah, so day one was arrive in Johannesburg. Day two, we had a Soweto day tour experience. Day three was this Saturday, which was the first test match. Day four was a travel day to the game reserve where we stayed for two nights. Then we were back to Johannesburg for the game, the midweek game on the Tuesday, for flying to Cape Town on the Wednesday. In Cape Town we did a few things on the, what was it, Thursday, Friday? Thursday we went to a winery for the day, followed by on the Friday having a day, where did we go, Table Mountain? Table Mountain, yeah.
That's before
the winery, the Table Mountain. Was it? Yeah, I think so.
Yeah, it looks like it was actually, looking at this. Day nine. Yeah,
day nine. What are we doing day nine? Oh, there
was a hospitality
event. Yeah, we even saw the penguins. True. Then there was a hospitality event that night, but the lads, we'd had a couple of big nights, so we decided to give that one a bit of a wide steer.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the $14,000 All Blacks tour and what does it include?
0:00–2:58
2
Why did Joshua join the South Africa trip and how did the 10‑day itinerary unfold?
2:58–6:24
3
What wildlife and safari experiences did the hosts have on day 4‑5?
6:24–15:06
4
How did the tour highlight the economic contrast between shacks and wealthy suburbs?
15:06–20:22
5
What safety concerns arose around phone theft and stadium security?
20:22–25:14
6
Which cultural sites (Robben Island, wineries, Table Mountain) left the biggest impression?
25:14–28:55
7
How did the All Blacks hospitality and fan interactions shape the rugby rivalry experience?
28:55–32:29
8
What final advice do the hosts give to listeners considering a South Africa rugby tour?
32:29–34:06
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