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How Habana put the Rainbow Nation back on right course

World Cup Icons: 2007 - Brendan Gallagher looks back at the players who shone on the biggest stage

South African Rugby was looking for a hero in 2007 and it was Bryan Gary Habana who stepped up to the plate for the Springboks as they claimed their second World Cup.
Things had stalled a little for the Rainbow Nation rugby-wise since the glory days of 1995, Mandela et al. In fact there was a strong whiff of anticlimax. Defeated by the 1997 Lions, losing semi-finalists at RWC1999 and disappointing losing quarter-finals in 2003, the Boks were unexpectedly struggling to flex their muscles.
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