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Kolisi’s on the brink of making Bok history

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The Rugby Paper Team
27 May 2018

THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

PETER JACKSON

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Siya Kolisi grew up on the wrong side of the tracks, among the shacks on the dusty streets of a township at Nelson Mandela Bay. Under the despised apartheid regime, he would probably have had a better chance of going to the moon than becoming captain of the Springboks. The boy who would succeed against all the odds was two years old when Mandela created the birth of The Rainbow Nation almost a quarter of a century ago.
Since then the Springboks have had 18 Test ca...

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