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There's no doubt that we were poisoned
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and this confirmed it for me. Eon Edgar,
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we were having at a dinner for something
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a tiger sportsman of the year or
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something like that in Deneden and he
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had just come back from the UK. This is
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after the World Cup. He said the word in
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financial circles in London is that the
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bookies arranged for your food
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poisoning. The New Zealand Rugby Union
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weren't prepared to do anything about
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it. Richie Guy was chairman and I
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understood the reasons. My wife was
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South African, so we hired a private
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detective over there ourselves. The end
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result of that was there was a waitress
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that was employed on the Wednesday.
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After Thursday, she just disappeared
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completely. It could have been a
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chemical thing, but there was an
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argument that it was probably a
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biological wild plant in South Africa.
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I've forgotten the name of it. If it's
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put in with your tea leaves and that
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sort of thing, it it can lead to this
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sort of poisoning, food poisoning. He
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said she had a name like Suki, Syi,
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Suzie, something like that. Now, I was
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silly enough to mention that to Bob when
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he wrote this book. And so that's where
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the Suzie came