News24 | WATCH | Siya Kolisi’s Zwide family overjoyed at Boks’ victory as alma mater does celebratory march

News24 | WATCH | Siya Kolisi’s Zwide family overjoyed at Boks’ victory as alma mater does celebratory march

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Siya Kolisi's family outside the house in Zwide, Gqeberha, where the Bok captain grew up. From left: Khanyani, Liyema and Vukile Kolisi with baby Hlalu.

Siya Kolisi’s family outside the house in Zwide, Gqeberha, where the Bok captain grew up. From left: Khanyani, Liyema and Vukile Kolisi with baby Hlalu.

The taste of Rugby World Cup victory is sweet. For residents of Zwide in Gqeberha, where Bok captain Siya Kolisi was born and bred, it is more than a triumph but a feeling of pride and joy – a feeling that more than 500 pupils from his former primary school echoed in songs of jubilation on Monday.

Pupils from Emsengeni Primary School, accompanied by more than 30 teachers, performed a march and drill through the township streets to celebrate the Boks’ victory against the All Blacks in a nail-biting final.

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