Despite South Adfrica’s landmark victory at the 2023 Rugby World Cup which earned the team praise from the nation, the fact that the trophy tour will not grace Gqeberha, the hometown of captain Siya Kolisi and sveral other team members, has been met with anger by some.
Meanwhile, President Cyril Ramaphosa elected to honour the team’s success in another way. “In celebration of the Springboks’ momentous achievement and the achievements of all our other sports men and women, and as a tribute to the resolve of our united nation, I am declaring Friday the 15th of December 2023 as a public holiday. We declare this to be a day of hope, a day of celebration and unity. Our sports men and women have shown us what is possible. We will succeed and we will ensure that we leave no one behind,” Ramaphosa said.
The Springboks are the first team to win the Webb Ellis trophy four times and this makes it a back-to-back win for the team, having won in 2019.
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South Africa’s Springboks 12, New Zealand’s All Blacks 11. This was the final score at full time of the most important match of the four-year Rugby World Cup cycle, that took place … Read more »
The Webb Ellis Cup, the trophy of the Rugby World Cup (file photo).
