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.