Cape Town Mission Field 

    16 June 2018
    Day 189
Saturday

Today we went down to the V&A Waterfront to the Springbok Experience Museum. It was a wonderful museum showing the history of Rugby in South Africa and all the turmoil the teams experienced during the Apartheid Era. We met a wonderful couple manning the store. They encouraged us to see a live match. One is scheduled next weekend at the Newlands stadium, near the Mission Office. We bought Springbok hats then went to the Quay Four for dinner and watched the Rugby match on the TV screens in the restaurant; the Springboks were playing England in Johannesburg. There were a lot of people doing the same thing. The Springboks won!

Museum Pictures:

Here's picture on the big screen of Elder Courtright's face placed among the Springbok players.

Here's a painting of an 1880's rugby match in Rondebosch by Otto Landsberg at the base of Devil's Peak and Table Mountain.

Here's the Cecil Rhodes trophy passed around during rugby tests from 1898 to 1971 among black and colored teams.

Here was an interesting quote from a Scottish fan after a whipping from the South African team in 1951/1952 test match series with Britain and France.

Here's the coming together of a nation at the 1995 Rugby World Cup where South Africa defeated their nemesis New Zealand "All Blacks" 15-12. The new President Nelson Mandela wore the team captains jersey onto the field and gave a simple hug to Francois Pinear.