Home from New Zealand

De Wet Ras, the former Springbok flyhalf, and his wife Adri Prinsloo, a doctor, have returned to South Africa after moving to Taranaki, New Zealand, in mid-2005 with their four children. Adri was working on contract but she missed her family and South Africa too much. De Wet was not able to get a teaching post in Taranaki, being in a catch-22 situation - to get a job offer he needed to have a work permit and prove that there was no New Zealander who could do the job. He found odd jobs at a scrapyard, on a farm and at a tent hiring company. Adri could have applied fr a permanent work permit if she studied further. After much thought, the family decided to return to Bloemfontein where De Wet works as a sport equipment salesman and Adri at Free State University's medical faculty.