#Springboks

[antiqueanimals]

Springboks by Cuthbert Edmund Swan. From Wild Beasts of the World, Vol. Two. Written by Frank Finn, published in 1909.

Internet Archive

[trb752]

Winged Springbok by Sir Charles Wheeler

1933, bronze

South Africa House, Trafalgar Square, London, England, UK

Photo by Eleri Jones

[old-etonian]

Disappointed we’ve not had a Prince William Cup since 2023. 😔

[crowleyjacks]

the physicality of test matches (most of these were from the first 40 minutes)

[240713] RSAvIRE @ Durban, South Africa [X]

[halfmanhalfbizkit]

Simply sublime 🏉

Go Bokke!!! 🇿🇦

[virgjl]

The little boy from the Zwide Township in the eastern cape is a TWO TIME rugby World Cup winning captain😭❤️

HE IS THE DEFINITION OF HOPE.

Our captain, Siya Kolisi ❤️🇿🇦🏆💚💛

[monte-charlo]

What is the rugby drama 👀

I don’t watch rugby but I love drama 🤩

Dearest anon (and the several others who sent similar asks):

Buckle up for the most hilarious “we are sore losers so we’re creating a racism scandal that never was” drama, as brought to you by the england rugby team

South Africa played England in the semifinal of the rugby world cup on Saturday evening. England were leading the entire game and with ten minutes to play SA was 9 points down, but ended up winning with 1 point.

After the game it comes out that Tom Curry (left), england flanker, approached the ref during the game to complain that Bongi Mbonambi (right) had called him a racial slur. The slur in question? White cunt

Now three things are immediately obvious to anyone with any knowledge about SA:

Cunt simply isnt a word South Africans use. Had he complained about being called a doos or a poes? Yeah fair. But cunt? It just doesnt make any sense for a South African to use cunt as an insult when the word is practically nonexistent in our lexicon

The South African team speaks Afrikaans on the field. You can hear them on the ref mic all the time. They have always done it as a way to communicate without other teams understanding and figuring out their play calls

In rugby, teams on field are referred to by jersey colour, the ref will shout things like “green use it! White stay back. 15 white is offside” etc. and England, the team playing in all white kits are naturally “white” when being referred to on field, and it has nothing to do with their pasty white asses

Now, in Afrikaans, the languages spoken by SA on field, wye kant/wit kant sounds a lot like white cunt in english, but translates as wide side or white side. There is no sound from the moment tommy boy is specifically complaining about, you can only hear him speaking to the ref, nothing from Bongi himself but in several other moments throughout the game you can hear various springbok players saying both wye kant or wit kant depending on the situation

But now, instead of the springboks being able to prepare for the final against New Zealand this weekend, they need to have this ridiculous investigation by world rugby, while every English media outlet has branded our vice captain a racist despite every South African with a soc med account telling them that there is simply no way a South African would insult you using the word cunt and it was obviously Afrikaans referring to the kant/side

So yeah, apparently white cunt is a racist slur, and teams are only allowed to speak english in case one of those sensitive monolingual souls takes offence at what youre discussing in your own language 🙄

Anyway heres the springboks during the previous wc, after winning against the wit kant in the final 🤭

[cowboykakashi]

When u get knocked out in the quarter finals but ur the host nation :/

[heaven4lostgirls]

SOUTH AFRICA WON THE WORLD CUP!!!

GO BOKKE! 🇿🇦

[nanoland]

south africa's boyfriend, Captain Siya Kolisi, pictured here being handsome <3 <3 <3

[southafricahunks]

[bloggin-by-zama]

Congratulations to the number one Rugby team in the world on their win 🇿🇦🏆

[antiqueanimals]

Wild und Hund: Das Jagdmagazin. 1897. Illustration by Alfred Weczerzick.

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[virgjl]

let it be known that a black captain has held the rugby world cup winner title twice in a row 🇿🇦🏆

[guy60660]

Springbok Rugby

[estiqatsi]

Only one can make it four...

https://www.oasport.it/2023/10/rugby-nuova-zelanda-e-sudafrica-ecco-le-formazioni-per-la-finale-dei-mondiali/