70 000 people in the Yokohama Stadium, Japan, rose to their feet in rapturous applause as Siya Kolisi lifted the Webb Ellis trophy of the Rugby World Cup 2019 on Saturday, November 2.
The crowd, and billions of viewers around the world, were celebrating a magnificent performance from the Springboks.
It is easy to get swept up in the emotion of the Boks winning Rugby’s premier prize for the third time, but South African rugby’s first African Captain underlined the significance of the victory with a poignant remark:
“We face a lot of challenges at home. We have so many problems in South Africa,” he said, “but we came together with one goal. It shows that we must pull together if we want to win something.”
It was a telling statement from the Captain of the most diverse squad in the 2019 RWC, from different cultures,
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