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Kolisi No.6 shirt brings fresh hope to a troubled land

BRENDAN GALLAGHER VERDICT

History re-run: Siya Kolisi with South African president Cyril Ramaphosa. Inset: Francois Piennar with Nelson Mandela in 1995

Everybody recognises the power of the shirt, the passion and pride behind a nation’s national colours and jersey that has been handed down through the decades.
But never has the number of a shirt held such significance as it does for South Africa. And of course that number is six.
Yesterday Siya Kolisi was the man filling that shirt and what an impressive captain and indeed man, the classy flanker from Port Elizabeth is.
Meanwhile...

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