Members of South Africa's 1995 Rugby World Cup-winning team gathered in Johannesburg on Wednesday for the 20-year anniversary of their Nelson Mandela-inspired victory.
Victorious captain Francois Pienaar and his former team-mates were at Ellis Park, the stadium where they beat tournament favourites New Zealand 15-12 in the final two decades ago, thanks to an extra-time drop-goal from Joel Stransky.
The Springboks' successful campaign, just a year after the country's first all-race elections ended apartheid, is one of sport's enduring stories.
Mandela, who died in 2013, appeared at the final wearing one of Pienaar's jerseys, a gesture by the newly-elected president that urged South Africans to unite behind their team after decades under a divisive regime.
Stransky was among the survivors of the winning team in attendance on a warm and sunny winter afternoon at Ellis Park to remember the first of two Springbok World Cup titles.
They included wheelchair-bound scrum-half Joost van der Westhuizen, who is battling motor neuron disease.
'Celebrate'
South African rugby boss Oregan Hoskins said it was a day to celebrate, but to also remember fallen heroes Mandela and coach Kitch Christie and flanker Ruben Kruger, who both succumbed to cancer.
"We proudly celebrate this day as a rugby family because the team helped Nelson Mandela unite a country,” said Hoskins. "It was a moment that astonished a nation and provided one of the foundation stones for the country we were to become."
Stransky, now a television pundit, is upbeat about another green-and-gold World Cup triumph at Twickenham this October.
"I think the Springboks will win the World Cup," he said. "Critics say it is an old team, but it is a very experienced team.
"A few youngsters and a couple of real match-winners can turn a game. We can come away with the title, it is certainly possible."
Pienaar was reluctant to predict the outcome of the 2015 World Cup.
"I am just an old has-been," he said. "I just enjoy the game. It is shaping up to be one of the most fiercely contested tournaments, the 2015 Six Nations was one of the best I have seen.
"England will put on a great show and it will be the biggest Rugby World Cup so far."