Watching last month's Tri-nations Test in Port Elizabeth recently was a vociferous group of South Africans in black and white, backing the visitors. This apparently contradictory loyalty has it roots in a reaction to apartheid – but now it's time to let go of the past, says Lungile Mpharu.
It must have felt like a home game for the All Blacks when they arrived for last month's Tri-nations Test match in Port Elizabeth, because there was plenty of evidence for the claim that they enjoy more fanatical support from the coloured community than the Springboks do.
Watching last month's Tri-nations Test in Port Elizabeth recently was a vociferous group of South Africans in black and white, backing the visitors. This apparently contradictory loyalty has it roots in a reaction to apartheid – but now it's time to let go of the past, says Lungile Mpharu.
It must have felt like a home game for the All Blacks when they arrived for last month's Tri-nations Test match in Port Elizabeth, because there was plenty of evidence for the claim that they enjoy more fanatical support from the coloured community than the Springboks do.
One could understand why their dads may have supported the All Blacks during the 1980s, and also why they didn't want to get behind a team who were the poster boys for Afrikaner racial segregation.
But with more than 20 years of racial integration and transformation in South African sport, and the selection of numerous black and coloured players for the Springboks, surely it's time for coloureds to get over the wrongs of the past and get behind our national rugby team?
Grahamstown resident, Elton Marney, who recently challenged people's loyalty to the Springboks on a social networking site, was the first to talk to
