Rugby Roundtable Featuring Special Guests

🗓 Thursday, 23 October 2025 @ 6 PM
📍 Alliance Française du Cap – 155 Loop Street, Cape Town

1995 – 2025: Thirty Years after the First Springboks’ World Cup Victory Was the Promise Fulfilled?
On 24 June 1995, the Springboks lifted their first Rugby World Cup trophy at Ellis Park  a powerful moment of national pride and reconciliation, immortalised by the image of Nelson Mandela in a green jersey.

Three decades and four titles later, what has become of that promise?

Join us for a special roundtable discussion, moderated by Winny Claret, to explore the legacy of that iconic victory, not just in sporting terms, but in its broader social and political significance. What has changed? What hasn’t? And what does rugby still represent in today’s South Africa?

🎤 Roundtable Moderator: Winnie Claret

👥 Panelists:

• Lungi Morrison: granddaughter of Desmond Tutu, lifelong All Blacks supporter and vocal advocate for inclusive South African sport

• Siya Hani: president of Busy Bee Rugby Club (founded in Langa in 1923), one of South Africa’s oldest Black rugby institutions

• Kobus Wiese: former Springbok lock and 1995 World Cup champion

• Andy Colquhoun: general Manager of Corporate Affairs at the South African Rugby Union (SARU)

• Danelle Lochner: (to be confirmed)  Springbok Women’s second-rower and key figure in South African international rugby,

🎟️ Attendance limited to 80 guests – RSVP essential

💬 Expect engaging conversation, multiple perspectives, and a respectful yet critical look at history, identity, and transformation through the lens of rugby.
🎫 Free & open to all (with RSVP): culture@afcapetown.co.za