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Springboks’ Kolisi is step away from history books

South Africa’s Siya Kolisi during a training session. [Reuters]

Siya Kolisi carries the weight of the ‘Rainbow Nation’ on his shoulders as the first black captain of the South Africa rugby union team, a long-time bastion of the country’s white Afrikaner community.

Coach Rassie Erasmus named Kolisi captain when he took over from the sacked Allister Coetzee last year, a bold statement for a team that does not have a specific quota system but does have a ‘transformation’ target of 50 per cent players of colour.

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