has urged South Africans to start working together as a nation rather than only thinking about themselves.
He was speaking after collecting the People’s Choice of the Year award, voted for by the public, at the South African Sports Awards held at the Playhouse in Durban on Sunday night.triumph will help galvanise the country and get people to start working as a collective in a bid to be rid of some of the social ills they were experiencing. Kolisi added that a broken South Africa was what drove them towards fixing the nation.
SA Rugby was one of the biggest winners at the 2019 event following their World Cup victory in Japan a little over a week ago. Kolisi’s national team bossThe national captain faced some stiff competition for his award, withKolisi says that touching lives, as he has done by becoming the first black player to lead the Springboks, was more important to him than titles and trophies.
South Africa’s win in Japan saw them join New Zealand as the only country to win the World Cup three times. They first won it when the country was fresh out of apartheid in 1995, under the leadership ofAnother 12 years on and Kolisi was the man who lifted the William Web Ellis Trophy in Yokohama. Kolisi says staying at the top will be a huge challenge for him and his team.
Hear hear! If we can twist our heads around to face the future again, it would be a great start.
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