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There is an old legend about the white cloud that is known as the Table Cloth that sometimes covers the top of Table Mountain and rises behind Cape Town. Many years after the Dutch began the settlement, a fierce pirate called Van Hunks lived in a cottage between the mountain and a hill called devil’s peak. He spent most of his time sitting outside the cottage, puffing on a large pipe. Most people were afraid of him and he had few visitors.

One Day, a stranger came wearing a hat and a fine set of clothes. Very rudely, without introduction the stranger asked for some tobacco. The old pirate invited him to sit down, and then he filled the stranger’s pipe. As they smoked, Van Hunks boasted of the wicked deeds of his pirate days. What’s more, he boasted that no one could smoke as much tobacco as he could.

So the stranger challenged Van Hunks to a smoking contest. They divided the tobacco between them and each man settled down to smoke more than the other. By the next morning the whole mountain was covered in a great cloud of smoke as the stranger and Van Hunks smoked furiously.

At last the stranger gave up. Wiping his brow, he accidentally knocked off his hat to reveal two horns sprouting from his head. The stranger was the devil, and he was very angry at being beaten. With a mighty clap of thunder both he and Van Hunks disappeared. But the cloud remained.

Today when the wind known as the south easter blows, the cloud appears and the people of Cape Town look up and say that the devil and Van Hunks are smoking again.

Skoppy, the reason that the game was held at Stellenbosch is because Maties finished first on the league – that is the incentive to win the league – the same goes for the super 14, currie cup etc.