after decades in isolation, south africa's sporting teams could once again participate against the world's best, and the country's first democratically elected president was there to cheer the spring bucks on in johannesburg. >> when he walked out of that tunnel wearing the number six jersey, that predominantly white crowd started chanting his name. [ cheers ] >> watch the footage. as i say, i get goose bumps. how could this ever happen? and yet, he just understood fund mentally understood that that kind of a symbolic gesture of putting on a rugby jersey and identifying with a logo, a symbol would go so much further than any speech or policy or, you know, political agenda ever