South Africa's first black rugby Test captain vowed that the 'time to be scared and to be silent' is over in South Africa.
File: Springbok captain Siya Kolisi lifts the Webb Ellis Cup as they celebrate winning the Japan 2019 Rugby World Cup final match.JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's first black rugby Test captain Siya Kolisi, who led his country to win last year's World Cup, has called for action to address racial inequality in a nation still reeling from the legacy of apartheid.
"It's time for all of us to change and actually start to living the South Africa that so many people have fought for, so many people have died for". "Until our lives matter, no lives matter. We are all important, black lives actually matter," he said.His remarks were triggered by the global Black Lives Matter movement and protests over the killing of African-American George Floyd by a white police officer in Minneapolis in May.
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