CAPE TOWN: It is touted as one of rugby’s great rivalries but as New Zealand and South Africa clash for the 100th time on Saturday , it is again the All Blacks who are overwhelming favourites ahead of their Rugby Championship encounter.
Their last clash came at the start of the World Cup in Japan two years ago when New Zealand won, only to then lose to England in their semi-final and watch the Boks go on to be crowned world champions. It took on a much wider significance when the All Blacks’ tour in 1976 led to calls for New Zealand to be kicked out of the Montreal Olympics and, when the International Olympic Committee refused, led to a boycott by 29 mostly African countries, in protest at sporting contact with South Africa, then under white minority rule.
South Africa’s narrow World Cup final win over the All Blacks in Johannesburg in 1995 came soon after the first election to establish majority rule and was seen as a step towards closing racial division, led by new South African president Nelson Mandela’s enthusiastic acceptance of a sport that had largely been the preserve of the Afrikaaner minority.
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