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New Zealand All Blacks

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Mandela wears a Springbok jersey at the Rugby World Cup final

đź“… 24 June 1995

South Africa defeated New Zealand in the final, and Mandela presented the Webb Ellis Cup wearing the Springbok captain Francois Pienaar’s number 6 jersey. The gesture invited Black South Africans to...