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to defend amateur rugby union against professional rugby league after several
Springboks had defected to rugby league. In 1959, the SARB declared that all players that represented South Africa in rugby union had to sign a declaration they would not turn professional for two years. Any player who
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were not aware of prior. As non-whites were not eligible to be selected for South
African national sports teams, the Springbok colours came to be viewed as a symbol of white supremacy in apartheid South Africa, because they were only awarded to white sportspeople.
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Springbok colours to all non-whites who had played for a South African national team, such as the black
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governments, and stigmatised by the anti-apartheid movement. An exception was made in the case of the national rugby union team, who have retained the practice of awarding colours.
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decided that the team need to create their own emblem and nickname to prevent the
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in international competition of any sport, following their creation in 1906. With the arrival of South Africa's new post-apartheid government in 1994, the name
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