Kolisi was four years old when South Africa won the 1995 Rugby World Cup on home turf. It was the country's first. Back then, the national team wasn't supported by many Black South Africans.

Siya Kolisi is the first Black player to be named captain of South Africa's national team—the Springboks—an international rugby powerhouse ... a lot of 31-year-old men, much less professional ...

They were Black and white, young and old, mining company ... captain of the national rugby team and is in an interracial marriage, embodies the changes in South Africa since the apartheid era ...