Pienaar

British

/ pɪəˈnɑː /

noun

( Jacobus ) Francois. born 1967, South African Rugby Union footballer; captain of the South African team that won the Rugby World Cup in 1995

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After the Springboks' one-point wins over France and England in the previous two rounds, videos of South African children - barely old enough to remember the Boks' 2019 World Cup win - never mind Nelson Mandela and Francois Pienaar's handshake in 1995, appeared online.

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After similarly narrow victories over France and England, South Africa, with Kolisi's legendary 1995 predecessor Francois Pienaar watching on for the final step, have walked the hardest, narrowest route to the trophy.

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Nelson Mandela, the former political prisoner turned unifying president of a nation, presented the trophy to captain Francois Pienaar - an image which went down in history because of the lives it changed.

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President Nelson Mandela presented the trophy to Springboks captain Francois Pienaar in an iconic moment as South Africa beat New Zealand to win their first World Cup on home soil.

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Nelson Mandela, the former political prisoner turned unifying president of a nation, handed over the trophy to captain Francois Pienaar while wearing a South Africa rugby shirt bearing the Springbok badge - a symbol previously reviled by non-whites in the country because it was so strongly associated with the apartheid era.

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