Sporting community mourns multitalented Buster Farrer’s death

All-rounder excelled at cricket, representing Border and SA, played international tennis at Wimbledon as well as hockey internationals

One of SA’s most talented all-round sportsmen, William Stephen “Buster” Farrer, died at the Lotus Live-in Care Centre in Beacon Bay, East London, on Friday, aged 88.

Farrer was born in King William’s Town (now Qonce) on December 8 1936 and soon acquired the nickname “Buster”...

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