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Siya Kolisi
First black captain of the South African Springboks (captain from 2018); two-time Rugby World Cup winner (2019, 2023)
A boy from a Port Elizabeth township who lifted the Webb Ellis Cup twice and made it a symbol of a nation trying to heal.
The rise
Born Siyamthanda Kolisi in the impoverished township of Zwide near Port Elizabeth, he grew up in deep poverty before a rugby scholarship to Grey High School set him on a path to the Stormers and the national team.
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