But this year, for the first time in more than three decades, the kettles are being deployed out of season, for a week in the height of summer.
While there is a degree of truth in this in certain cases, other players are having to be deployed out of position – Vurnon Anita at left-back, for instance – while some clearly try hard but are patently not good enough.
As Menell recalls it, there was on that occasion some discussion that Ramaphosa "would be deployed out of politics into business and become a role model in another sector".
Little is going for Robinson and his team, starting during the warm-up when the centre Nick de Luca felt a hamstring go and Max Evans, a wing, was deployed out of position in midfield.
ICA, SW1, Tue to 17 Feb, visit www.jpf.org.uk Andrea Hubert An animation awards ceremony could do itself an injury trying to categorise the countless styles and techniques being deployed out there, from CGI to stop-motion, So with this one they've included a public vote where only the end result, the film itself, matters.
Facing the major Russian offensive, the II Brigade of the Polish Legions was deployed out of Kostiuchnówka, at Gruziatyn and Hołzula.
"There are numerous investigative techniques we are deploying out there," he said.
It appears to show that a stun gun wire has already been deployed, but falls out as Scott runs away from Slager, who pulls out his firearm and shoots until Scott falls to the ground.
The Foreign Ministry explained in a memo distributed Monday that the sharpshooters had been deployed to "look out for danger and protect others".
