Welcome to the rugby pod stories. In this new short series we explore some of the most iconic moments in the history of rugby

by speaking to the people who are there and uncover the secrets behind these incredible events.

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Spot has the power to change the world.

1995 Johannesburg, South Africa. After 40 years of apartheid rule, whereby the black population were moved to segregated townships in conditions of brutal poverty and denied jobs by the white ruling African or national party, times were finally a changing.

It has the power to unite people in a way that little as does.

From 1964 to 1992, the country was banned from the Olympic Games. Whilst its rugby team was kept out of the sport first two World Cups in 87 and 91.

To black South Africans, the historically white team, along with their green and gold colors and their springbok mascot, had come to symbolize the nation's oppressive minority white rule.

But to the hard line white Afro-Canas, the springbok had come to symbolize more than rugby excellence. It had come to symbolize racial superiority.

But can create hope where once there was only despair.

However, newly elected president Nelson Mandela saw rugby as a way to help lessened divisions between black and white South Africans and foster a shared national pride.

He voiced his vision of a rainbow nation at peace of itself and he planned to use this World Cup as a catalyst to achieve that.

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