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South Africa won the World Cup.
Kiya Solisi became the first black captain to lift the Webb Ellis Cup.
No, seriously, this is actually a big deal.
South Africa is a rugby nation, but the composition of the Springboks, for a long time, very white. (Soccer was for black people, and yes, frankly, the fact that under Apartheid, black people got soccer and white people got rugby should be taken as an accurate summary of the relative merits of those two sports.)
Despite the ridiculousness of the notion that all the best players could be drawn from a minority of the population, the Bokke were still a good team.
This is their third World Cup win.
But it's the first - by any nation - in which the winning captain was a black man.
It's also the first time South Africa actually scored tries in the World Cup Final, and the man who scored was Makoze Mapimpi.
Sport *is* real life.
I cried this morning because South Africa has two new heroes who can and will be heroes to *all South Africans*.
There is hope yet for healing in the Rainbow Nation.
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