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CAPE TOWN - On Sunday evening, a mellow crowd gathered in the cooling sun after a hot summer's day to listen to prayers, songs and inspirational speakers.

Chester Williams is one of the area's beloved sports heroes. As the first post-apartheid black player to integrate the formerly all-white Springbok rugby team, Williams was on the team that won the 1995 World Cup, with the support of Mandela, as immortalized in the film Invictus.

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