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From restaurant cooks to street workers, Springbok jersey-wearing South Africans are ubiquitous in Johannesburg, as a frenzied mood grips the nation in anticipation of Saturday's Rugby World Cup final.The momentum gathered pace after Siya Kolisi, the first black player to wear the captain's armband in a Test match, successfully skippered the side to World Cup glory in 2019 in a win that brought many young, black South Africans closer to the sport.

Best player in the tournament they haven't really got that class this time but. they've still got a chance it's roku and what do you think i mean taking the rugby world cup title then could mean for south africa coming into slightly as the underdogs perhaps well it is a massive thing for south africa mainly because people remember they wanted 2007 but they also won in 1905. relatively recently after the end of apartheid and people have seen the film invictus might remember nelson mandela there with the captain francois pienaar holding up the webb ellis trophy a mandela really use that to him a...

Country well of course it would be a huge deal at their rugby mad down there but it's also big for for more political reasons obviously the one of the world cups they won back in 1995 is fondly remembered as the one with nelson mandela in his springbok jersey after apartheid and for so long the springbok jersey had been this symbol of white south africa but they've actually got the caps and we can see him on the screen there the 1st black captain of this current south africa squad called c. a khaleesi born in a township the day after apartheid was repealed the symbolism exactly so that it's al...

Could do anything. if they pull together there was nothing they couldn't do. the entire country so happy having pulled that off because mandela resorted everyone to pull for the team to be one country, one nation, one team, one nation, one team, one nation. so i think that's what they walked away from that whole experience with, we did it. >> reporter: south african golf ledgered gary player is regarded as the finest in history. he has nothing but respect for the mandela legacy. >> rugby was strictly a white man's sport. in the world cup when nelson mandela came into that statement wearing a s...