Dear Fellow South African,
Seeing Springbok Captain Siyamthanda Kolisi lifting the cup
at the Yokohama Stadium on Saturday filled me with incredible pride. I could
see the undisguised feeling on the essence of his dad, Fezakele Raymond Kolisi
viewing from the stands. There was his child, the first black captain of the
Springboks, impacting the world forever.
Siya Kolisi was conceived on a day of significant
noteworthiness in our nation, 16 June, when we recollect the valiant students
who lit the way for our freedom. Siya's captaincy not just typifies the change
of a game that was once racially isolated; it is the intensity of a fantasy
satisfied. This is the fantasy of a youngster of humble conditions to one day
wear the green and gold pullover, and of a nation that has empowered him to see
it understood.
When South Africa is encountering significant difficulties,
we have come together for the triumph in Japan. The overflowing of help for the
Springboks making a course for the last indeed demonstrated the tremendous
capability of game to unite us as a people.
We are joined by the vision of a nation where the divisions
of the past can be survived, a country of balance, poise and regard for human
rights. In the course of recent years, we have been cooperating to assemble
that country. And keeping in mind that this is still particularly a work in
progress, we are solidly on the way to join together, restore and change our
general public.
The apparition of prejudice, sexism, tribalism, xenophobia,
homophobia and different types of bigotry has once in a while flourished in our
general public and has bushwhacked us as we endeavor towards our national
target of making a non-racial, non-misogynist, popularity based, prosperous and
tolerant society. As Siya Kolisi stated: "We can accomplish anything in
the event that we cooperate as one."
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