Siya Kolisi brings trophy to the township where it all began
Champ’s first coach remembers a small boy with thin legs when the victory parade arrives in Zwide
10 November 2019 - 17:52
Rugby World Cup-winning captain Siya Kolisi returned to his SA roots on Sunday, holding the trophy as an open-top bus crawled through the streets of a Port Elizabeth township.
It was in Zwide, 17km north of the city, that the Springbok colossus first handled a rugby ball on a gravel, often windswept school sports field...
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