Springboks get Rugby World Cup tattoos - and we love it!

Springboks get Rugby World Cup tattoos - and we love it!

Several Springboks players got various tattoos while in Johannesburg after RWC win!

Springboks get RWC tattoos
Joe Fleming

Several Springboks players got Rugby World Cup tattoos - and we absolutely love it!

Elton Jantjies got the date of the World Cup final. Bongi Mbonambi went for a Webb Ellis Cup tattoo on his arm. 

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Locks RG Snyman and Franco Mostert and prop Steven Kitshoff, who were all part of the Bok ‘Bomb Squad’ got ‘Bomb Squad’ tattoos.

Rugby World Cup Victory Tour

The Springboks' final stop on their victory tour pounded home the message of unity in a country still nursing the wounds of apartheid a quarter-century after its end.

It was in that same square in front of City Hall on February 11, 1990, that Nelson Mandela spoke to euphoric crowds hours after his release from 27 years in prison.

PICTURES OF THE TATTOOS BELOW
Elton Jantjies
Joe Fleming
Bongi Mbonambi went for a Webb Ellis Cup tattoo
Joe Fleming
Steven Kitshoff was part of the Bok ‘Bomb Squad’
Joe Fleming

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