RIDING TO CURRIE CUP GLORY

Last weekend, the Suzuki Griquas and their fans travelled by bus to Johannesburg for a daunting challenge: facing the Lions in the 2025 Currie Cup final. The DFA's Danie van der Lith went along to capture their journey.

- DANIE VAN DER LITH

Danie van der Lith

THERE'S a quote that goes: “We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand — and melting like a snowflake.”

This must have been in the back of DFA sports reporter and photographer, Danie van der Lith’s head when he was invited to accompany underdogs, the Suzuki Griquas, to the 2025 Currie Cup final against a formidable URC-dense Fidelity ADT Lions team.

Van der Lith made the trip, and shared his experiences of rubbing shoulders with the team, hoping to give Kimberley readers a glimpse, a taste, a moment of experiencing this historic final for themselves.

He writes ...

Opportunities do not come every day. Most of the time, we miss them. Sometimes it is fear of the unknown, sometimes the finances are not there, and sometimes we simply make excuses.

For me, the opportunity to travel with the Griquas to Johannesburg as their photographer for the Currie Cup final at Ellis Park was something I could not let pass by.