LETTER: Rugby heritage lies in people, not places

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LETTER: Rugby heritage lies in people, not places
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Survival of the WPRU is far more important that preserving Newlands Stadium

The public participation process for submissions on whether the old Newlands Stadium should be a provincial heritage site ended this week. It comes after an application was made last year by a group of former players attempting to have the ground declared a heritage site.

If it comes to a choice between keeping an old stadium and ensuring the survival of an even older union, which has hundreds of thousands of supporters and is a major cog in the national rugby machine, surely the latter takes precedence?

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