ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at how the South African Rugby Museum may be used as a lens for the observance of the links between sport and politics and the interconnectedness with public memory and national reconciliation in South Africa’s post-apartheid context. In doing so it addresses how the modern day ‘Springbok Experience’ was a protracted process fraught with political and social difficulties in moving beyond being a shrine to white sporting excellence and an instrument of Afrikaner nationalism to become a true vehicle of post-Apartheid reconciliation.
