township

He went on to work with the Serpent Players, a group of black actors, and performed in black townships, despite harassment from the apartheid regime's security forces.

He read about Kolisi's township upbringing, when the future flanker's favourite toy was a brick.

While he sleeps on sandbags after back-breaking days underground, his family lives in a house he has bought in a township of the main city, Johannesburg.

At dawn, the three young men hitched a ride from a truck driver and made it to Aung Ban, a township in the southern Shan state.

He met children from the Ocean View, Masiphumelele and Langa townships, many of whom have challenging home lives - rugby is used to support them as well as unite communities and mentor schoolchildren.