Two national rugby team players. Two neighbouring countries. One farm. And a whole lot of comments about strange timing.
This is what surfaced this week after a report that the father of Zimbabwean-born rugby player Brian Mujati - who gets his first Springbok cap on Saturday - allegedly grabbed a farm five years ago.
SA Rugby has dismissed the article as a smear campaign ahead of the prop forward's national debut.
UK-based newspaper The Zimbabwean reported Joseph Mujati had ordered Marthinus "Tienie" Martin - a Zimbabwean rugby player in the 1960s - off his third-generation farm in December 2003.
The newspaper does not outright name Brian as Joseph's son. However, it reported that the farm looked set to produce a Mujati Springbok, something it had failed to do for the Martin family.
In 1968, Tienie, a fly-half, was earmarked for Springbok colours but injury ruled out a tour to France. He was later chosen for the Gazelles and Springbok trials and represented the SA "B" side.
The newspaper said Mujati told Martin to start packing and get off the Inyazura property.
"They could not wait for us to leave and the looting of the house started while we were still there," Martin said.
Crops, livestock, tractors and workshop equipment were left behind.
"In a few hours we had lost everything. Three generations had worked hard to build what was taken in a day."
SA Rugby has stood by Mujati. "This is a shabby attempt to smear the name of a Springbok rugby player on what should be one of the most memorable days of his life," said SA Rugby's strategic communications manager Andy Colquhoun.
"There are no allegations against Brian Mujati and an attempt to visit the alleged sins of a father on to a son is beneath contempt, however it may be dressed up."
The story attracted over 500 spirited comments on the rugby website www.keo.co.za by Friday afternoon.
"The timing of this hornet's nest is suspicious. Why is this only coming out now?" asked one commentator.
Tienie and his wife, Charlotte now live in a small rented townhouse in Harare.