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Siya Kolisi

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - NOVEMBER 05: Siya Kolisi (captain) of the Springboks during the South African national rugby team arrival media conference at OR Tambo International Airport on November 05, 2019 in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Photo by Sydney Seshibedi/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

Brendan Gallagher looks back at the players who shone on the biggest stage

Rugby World Cup has spawned many iconic moments and images and topping that list, or at least equal with the memory of Nelson Mandela in his Boks shirts in 1995 must be Siya Kolisi being presented with the Webb Ellis trophy 24 years later in Yokohama.
A black South African captain, a man born and raised in an impoverished township in Eastern Province, guiding the Boks to victory and skippering a side including six players of colour in the starting lineup and 11 in the larger squad.
This was the story, started in 1995...

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