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Francois Pienaar is 'n afgetrede rugbyspeler van Suid-Afrika.
Hy het gespeel as 'n flank vir die Springbokke tussen 1993 en 1996.
In daardie drie jare het hy nege-en-twintig internasionale verskynings gewen as kaptein van die span.
Hy het internasionale sterstatus bereik nadat hy die Suid-Afrikaanse span gelei het na oorwinning in die Rugby Wêreldbeker in 1995.
Die volgende jaar het die Springbokke hom laat gaan en die Londen-gebaseerde Sarahhcens het hom opgeraap.
Pienaar het rugby gespeel op 'n belangrike tyd in Suid-Afrika se geskiedenis.
In 1993 toe hy by die Springbokke aangesluit het, was die nasie in 'n staat van verwarring, aangesien apartheid uit die saal gelig is deur onderhandelings tussen destydse President F.W. de Klerk en die anti-apartheidsbeweging gelei deur Nelson Mandela.
Een van die maniere waarop Mandela die gelykskakeling van die rasse bemiddel het, was deur rugby, want hy het die sport gesien as 'n manier om Suid-Afrikaners bymekaar te bring om op te kom vir hul nasionale span.
In die tyd was Mandela en de Klerk besig om Suid-Afrika weg te beweeg van gewettigde afsondering en in die rigting van demokrasie. Chester Williams was die enigste swart speler van die Springbokke.
Pienaar het egter sy beroemdheid gebruik om te eis vir die gelykskakeling van alle rasse in Suid-Afrika.
Hy het beklemtoon dat die span die hele land verteenwoordig het en nie net die wit minderheid nie.
In 1995 het Suid-Afrika opgetree as gasheer van die Rugby Unie Wêreldbeker-toernooi en die Springbokke was verafsku in daardie stadium.
Omdat hulle negende gekeurd was, is daar nie van hulle verwag om goed te doen in die beker nie en daar is nie van hulle verwag om die amptelike wenner, Australië, ooglopend te oorweldig as kampioen nie, maar hulle het uiteindelik Australië verslaan in die eerste rondte en het toe voortgegaan om al die ander spanne te verslaan en aanspraak gemaak op die kroon.
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Francois Pienarr is a retired rugby player from South Africa.
He played as a flanker for the Springboks between 1993 and 1996.
During those three years, he won twenty-nine international caps as captain of the team.
He rose to international stardom after leading the South African team to triumph in the Rugby World Cup in 1995.
The following year, the Springboks dropped him, and the London-based Sarahhcens picked him up.
Pienaar played rugby at an important time in South Africa's history.
In 1993 when he joined the Springboks, the nation was in a state of turmoil as apartheid had been unseated through negotiations between then-President F.W. de Klerk and the anti-apartheid movement led by Nelson Mandela.
One of the ways Mandela brokered the unification of the races was through rugby, as he saw the sport as a way to bring South Africans together to champion their national team.
At the time Mandela and de Klerk were maneuvering South Africa away from legalized segregation and toward democracy, Chester Williams was the sole black player on the Springboks.
However, Pienaar used his celebrity to call for the unification of all races in South Africa.
He emphasized that the team represented the entire country and not just the white minority.
In 1995, South Africa hosted the Rugby Union World Cup, and the Springboks were detested at the time.
As they were seeded ninth, they were not expected to do well in the cup and patently weren't expected to usurp the incumbent winner, Australia, as champion, but they ended up defeating Australia in the first round and then went on to defeat all of the other teams [...]