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6 August 2014
From an interview Jonah did for the IRB's World of Rugby TV show.
"I didn't realise how much of an impact I had made on the rugby world until I had to go out and buy something in South Africa (during the Rugby World Cup) in 1995. I had to get security at the shopping mall near our hotel to get into the shop that I wanted to go to. Then I had to leave via the back stairwell to get back to my hotel.
And all I wanted to buy was a tube of toothpaste!
My whole life completely changed then. It was never the same after that - and it's still not mine now all these years later."
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