“We are incredibly proud to be South Africans,” Tutu and his wife, Leah, said in a public message to the victorious South Africa team. Unlike ‘95, this wasn’t at home and in front of Mandela, South Africa’s beloved anti-apartheid leader and first democratically elected president who died in 2013. If its rugby team is a microcosm of South Africa, then South Africans should take heart because the Springboks have solved their problems. The team Mandela cheered on in the ‘95 final was all white save for one player. And for years after Mandela and ‘95, rugby in South Africa remained a white-dominated sport and the Springboks a white-dominated team.

Source: thestar November 02, 2019 23:48 UTC