On the occasion of Nelson Mandela Day, a look back at the 1995 Rugby World Cup final and the victory of the South African Springboks. Your login session has expired. Please logout and login again.

The story of the 1995 Rugby World Cup final, undoubtedly one of the greatest sporting events of the 20th century, can be seen as starting in South Africa's Pollsmoor Prison in 1985.

Former players reflect on Nelson Mandela's inspirational role in South Africa's first Rugby World Cup triumph 30 years ago.

Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first black president, was wearing the colors of the Springboks and 65,000 white rugby supporters were joyously shouting his name. It was 1995. The Rugby World Cup ...

FILE - In this June 24, 1995 file photo, South African rugby captain Francios Pienaar, right, receives the Rugby World Cup from South African President Nelson Mandela, left, who wears a South ...

He emerged into bright winter sunshine, stepped onto the lush field and pulled on a cap. His long-sleeve green rugby jersey was untucked and buttoned right up to the top, a style all his own. On ...

Mandela has strong links to sport in South Africa after he appeared at the 1995 rugby World Cup final wearing the green and gold jersey of the Springboks, the country's national rugby team.

A World Cup final in the new South Africa, in the South Africa of a free Nelson Mandela, felt like a fresh beginning. It felt like the end of apartheid in the last area to surrender – rugby.

Nelson Mandela took a replica Springboks jersey out of a plastic shopping bag and asked captain Francois Pienaar for permission to wear it before the 1995 Rugby World Cup final, it was revealed on ...

Nelson Mandela's former bodyguard has made the extraordinary claim that members of New Zealand's 1995 Rugby World Cup team were poisoned before the final against host South Africa.