My journey to, maybe, one day proudly wearing a Bok jersey again

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Saturday's Rugby World Cup win ended with me fighting an internal battle about the happiness I still felt embarrassed to show.

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Saturday’s Rugby World Cup win ended with me fighting an internal battle about the happiness I still felt embarrassed to show.

I was certainly still of age when we returned to the podium of glory in 2007. That time, I experienced the Bok win over England in McGregor, an Overberg hamlet where everyone is apparently on first-name terms, and can fit into one bar. The Overdraught, it’s called. I have long accepted that South Africa’s rugby structures are not fully transformed. We are on a slow journey towards our national rugby team reflecting the demographics of our country, but we are not there yet. We make gradual, gastropodical progress in that direction.

My personal protest, a line in my own patch of mental sand, is a refusal to wear the Bok jersey until the team is mostly black players, and it beats New Zealand. Suffice to say, I have not worn the green and gold since I made that call! So there I was, torn between the fact of an inadequately transformed team, and a miraculous victory. I see on Twitter that EFF thought leader Mbuyiseni Ndlozi was at a similar watershed.

“Actually, it’s awesome,” I decided. “Mapimpi won it for us. Mapimpi and Pollard! The whole team! ’Mabokoboko!”

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