Wait, I am wrong! The current colours for the Springboks, Bafana Bafana and the Proteas are
green and golden yellow, which, it just so happens, are the colours of the ruling
ANC party.Politicians who have racial hang-ups should rather stay out of sport. The price of
this book is less than half-an-hour of a professional designer's time. For the budget-conscious small
entrepreneur who cannot afford a designer, but wants to have the right foundation, this book
offers amazing value for money. In his eBook he provides indispensable facts and logic for
creating a successful visual brandmark through his seven essential elements of a successful brandmark.With more
than 30 years of rich experience, Greyling is a free-spirited maverick having never worked for
a boss that runs his own strategic brand and design consultancy. Due to growing international
pressure, the segregated South African rugby unions merged in 1977.In 1986, a rebel tour took
place, in response to the scrapping of the planned All Black tour of South Africa
after an interdict by the New Zealand High Court in 1985. South African Rugby Union
president Oregan Hoskins thought there were too few non-white players in the 2007 World Cup
squad and, in 2008, the first non-white coach was appointed. The South African cricket side
is now commonly referred to as the Proteas.The Springboks have played international rugby since 1891
when a British Isles side toured South Africa. They can reach running speeds of up
to 80 kilometres per hour. It earns millions of dollars in sponsorship deals and, fortunately,
it does not legally belong to the South African government but to the SA Rugby
Union (SARU), previously known as the SA Rugby Football Union (SARFU), which registered the trademark
in 1996. After this, the emblem was worn on the left breast pocket of team
blazers.The 1976 Soweto riots and rebel toursBy the Second World War, New Zealand and South
Africa had established themselves as rugby's two greatest teams. It is not about a quota
system or who is the blackest or whitest. In July 2006, Springbok coach Jake White
told the press he had been unable to pick some white players for his squad
"because of transformation" - a reference to the ANC government's policies of attempting to redress
the racial imbalances in national sport.The Springboks won the World Cup for a second time
in 2007 and joined Australia as the only other national team to have won the
trophy twice. Apartheid officially died in 1994 and if the Springbok brand was seen as
part of that era, it would have been scrapped then. That makes the long white
hairs under the tail stand up in a conspicuous fan shape. In December 2008, the
South African Rugby Union chose to go the dreaded co-branding route and to place the
Protea on the left side of the Springboks' jersey, in line with other South African
national teams, and move the Springbok brandmark to the right of the jersey. The Springbok
(Afrikaans and Dutch: spring = jump; bok = antelope or goat) is a medium-sized brown
and white gazelle standing about 75 cm high. This also proved the southern hemisphere's dominance,
with five out of six titles to date.South Africa's World Cup-winning side of 1995 fielded
only one non-white player. From 1990 to 1991, the legal apparatus of apartheid was dismantled
and the Springboks were readmitted to international rugby in 1992.One of the 100 Greatest Sporting
MomentsThe team made its World Cup debut in 1995, when the newly democratic South Africa
hosted the tournament and there was a remarkable surge of support for the Springboks among
the white and black communities in the lead-up to the tournament. Mbeki pursued neoliberal economic
policies and Zuma, who would become the future President of South Africa, was more left-wing
and populist and has a closer relationship with the popular Congress of South African Trade
Unions and the South African Communist Party.While we are on the subject of politics and
name changes, why was South Africa not renamed Azania after the 1994 elections? Azania was
at the time the name of choice among revolutionary black African nationalists, and it appeared
in the names of revolutionary groups such as the Azanian People's Tn Requin Organisation (AZAPO), the Pan
Africanist Congress of Azania and the Socialist Party of Azania. It takes a long time
to train and coach great sportsmen and sportswomen and is not a political event like
the typical unfair (s)election so common in Africa.Today, South Africa plays in green jerseys with
a gold collar, white shorts and green socks. This sparked an outcry from supporters of
the national rugby team, which is a source of deep pride, especially to Afrikaners. The
gesture was widely seen as a major step towards the reconciliation of white and black
South Africans. These often are executed by under-qualified "experts" at advertising agencies and design studios,
or as a freebie by the boss' daughter, an equally inept art student. At that
time, the South African rugby team had worn myrtle green shirts, which the then captain
borrowed from his Old Diocesan club. The truth is that the ANC had always been
opposed to this name because of its association with the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania,
which had split from the ANC.And why was the poorly performing Bafana Bafana (the Boys),
South Africa's official national soccer team, not renamed the Proteas? It was rumoured that England
coach Sven-Göran Eriksson had been offered US$3-million (ZAR30-million) to coach Bafana Bafana for the 2010
FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Despite a quota system intended to encourage provincial teams
to field non-white players, and the fact that there are more non-white than white rugby
players in South Africa, many politicians believed that the pace of transformation was too slow.
Next, the politicians may want to change the jerseys to a powder pink to match
the colour of the king protea. This was the first major event to be held
in what Archbishop Desmond Tutu had dubbed "the Rainbow Nation", with South Africans uniting behind
the "one team, one country" slogan. COPE was founded by former ANC members after the
ANC's national conference in 2007 resulted in the election of Jacob Zuma over Thabo Mbeki,
the then South African President, as the ANC president.The split also revealed underlying ethnic tensions
between Zulu and Xhosa speakers, represented by Jacob Zuma and Thabo Mbeki, respectively, and their
different philosophies. The new jersey was worn for the first time during the British and
Irish Lions tour of South Africa in June and July 2009. The South African national
rugby union team will always be referred to as the Springboks because the brand will
always be stronger than the politicians, regardless of all their politicking.Alexander Greyling is the Author
of Face your brand! The visual language of branding explained and is one of South
Africa's top branding experts. The political pressure on rugby coaches and administrators to select non-white
players has been strong and, as a result, 16 of the 35 new Springboks appointed
by former coach Jake White were non-white.Politicians will always loose the battle with the brandIn
late 2008, the Springbok brand again came under fire from politicians. This is the story
of a brand which has matured over the past 100 years into a global superbrand
and an example of the power of branding regardless of time, politics, race or culture.
The Springboks defeated the All Blacks in the final, which is now remembered as an
iconic moment in the history of the sport, and a watershed moment in the post-apartheid
nation-building process.Nelson Mandela, wearing a Springbok rugby jersey and baseball cap, presented the World Cup
to the South African captain, Francois Pienaar, a white Afrikaner, to the joy of the
capacity crowd. All the traditional rugby nations, bar New Zealand, supplied players to the team,
which consisted of 10 Welshmen, eight Frenchmen, six Australians, four Englishmen, one Scot and one
Irishman.Although South Africa was instrumental in creating the Rugby World Cup competition, the Springboks did
not compete in the first two World Cups in 1987 and 1991 because of the
anti-apartheid sporting boycotts of South Africa. This ritual is known as pronking in Afrikaans or
"strutting", meaning to boast or show off.Springbok inhabit the dry inland areas of south and
south-western Africa. The next year, the Commonwealth of Nations signed the Gleneagles Agreement that discouraged
any sporting contact with South Africa. How 925 silver can it still be offensive 15 years later?
Proof of the brand's popularity among black South Africans is that more Springbok apparel and
memorabilia are sold in Soweto, South Africa's biggest black township, than in the predominantly white
suburbs of Johannesburg.Silas Nkanunu, former SARU president and one of the first blacks to be
appointed to this position, stated in an interview with Agence France-Presse (AFP) in December 2008
that he believed changing the Springbok brand would not address the real issues affecting the
sport's development and its promotion among blacks. Instead, the former Brazil coach, Carlos Alberto Parreira,
landed the contract for US$10-million (ZAR100-million) but resigned in April 2008 for "family reasons".The latest
Springbok debacle is a case of some ignorant and very confused politicians trying to score
brownie points at the expense of South Africa and a global brand born more than
a century ago. The moment is thought by some to be one of the most
famous finals of any sport and was listed as one of the 100 Greatest Sporting
Moments on a British television programme. To prevent the British press from inventing their own
name for the South African rugby side, the team captain chose the Springbok to represent
his side. Rugby was so popular that in 1902 there was a temporary ceasefire in
the Anglo-Boer War so that a game could be played between the British and Boer
forces. He began his career in the 1970s designing brandmarks and corporate brand identities to
pay for his college tuition. By dealing with upstarts, mom-and-pop businesses, illiterate markets in the
apartheid era and, later, sophisticated national and international brands, he gained invaluable experience and insight
covering a unique and broad range of branding challenges.This easy-to-read book is aimed at a
diverse spectrum of established and emerging entrepreneurs. Extensive hunting and farm fences, which blocked their
migratory routes have significantly diminished their numbers. However, the rugby union team kept the name
and brandmark of the Springbok after the intervention of the then President, Nelson Mandela, who
did so as a gesture of goodwill to the mainly white and largely Afrikaner rugby
supporters. The global audience does not view the Springbok brand as a political symbol but
as a great sport icon, one that epitomises world champions and an undeniable national passion
for rugby.Moreover, the rough and tumble game of rugby is difficult to associate with a
feminine floral symbol such as the protea, and the symbol of a flower would be
incongruent with the brand. In 1976, the All Blacks tour - shortly after the Soweto
riots - attracted international condemnation and 28 countries boycotted the 1976 Summer Olympics in protest.
The Anglo-Boer War was waged from 1899 until 1902 between the British Empire and the
two independent Boer republics of the South African Republic (Transvaal Republic) and the Orange Free
State. The Latin name marsupialis derives from a pocket-like skin flap extending along the middle
of the back from the tail onwards.When the male springbok shows off his strength and
fitness to attract a mate, or to ward off predators, he starts off in a
stiff-legged trot, leaping with an arched back into the air (up to nearly three metres)
every few paces, and lifting the flap along his back. Their involvement in a quota
system has proved disastrous as is clear from the pathetic performance of South African athletes
at the Beijing Olympics. The funny thing is, nobody noticed the new blossom and the
Springboks were even more popular than ever, especially after their series victory over the Lions.Politicians
should take note that it does not matter if the jersey has an intricate step-and-repeat-pattern
all over it, containing thousands of proteas. "The move smacks of political power play. Some
people argue that racial barriers were broken in 1995 after South Africa's victory, when former
president Nelson Mandela lifted the World Cup trophy while wearing a Springbok jersey, but the
committee remarked that Mandela's action was a matter of convenience rather than conviction.No doubt, this
latest debate has had a lot to do with the recent ANC split and with
the resultant newly formed Congress of the People (COPE) party emerging as the latest opposition
in the elections held in South Africa in April 2009. This trend continued in the
team's biggest matches of the 1999 and 2003 World Cups and, in the 2007 World
Cup final, the team fielded only two non-white players. The parliamentary sports committee of the
ruling African National Congress (ANC) made some radical comments and demanded that the Springbok emblem
and name be dropped in favour of the king protea. These have since been replaced
by new designs.Historically, the term Springbok was given to any team or individual representing South
Africa in any international sporting competitions. After all, sport is about who is the best
and wins. The game had spread among the Afrikaner population through prisoner-of-war games during the
Anglo-Boer War.The Springbok name and brandmark also date from the 1906-1907 tour of Britain, a
trip which helped heal wounds after the Anglo-Boer War and instilled a sense of national
pride among South Africans. The Springbok emblem was dropped in favour of the king protea
when South Africa's first democratic government came into power in 1994. It helped heal the
wounds after a bitter war over a century ago and caused national sportsmen to rebel
against their own governments and later united a nation after apartheid was dismantled and, as
a result, yielded what is widely viewed as one of the 100 Greatest Sporting Moments
in history. They used to be very common, forming some of the largest herds of
mammals ever witnessed, when millions of migrating Springbok formed herds hundreds of kilometres long. The
team was called the Cavaliers (but advertised in South Africa as the All Blacks) was
not sanctioned by the New Zealand Rugby Football Union, but consisted of all but two
of the original squad selected.In 1989, a World XV sanctioned by the International Rugby Board
went on a mini-tour of South Africa. Springbok get their water needs from the food
they eat, and can survive without drinking water through dry seasons or even dry years.The
springbok was a national symbol of South Africa under white minority rule (including the period
prior to the establishment of apartheid) and appeared on the emblem of the South African
Air Force, the brandmark of South African Airways (for which it remains their radio call
sign) and the coat of arms of South Africa. Their jersey is embroidered with the
SA Rugby brandmark and the flag of South Africa on the sleeve. Black clubs are
in dire need of financial assistance, which is slowing the development of talent," said Nkanunu.The
truth is that the Springbok brand has become a superbrand in the global sport world,
is untouchable and has transcended politics and the politicians. For the time-pressed chief executive, president
or managing director, it provides the knowledge to navigate the controversial field of visual branding.This
is essential reading for brand managers and marketers who are dissatisfied with the ineffective, but
expensive, creation of brandmarks. Notably, the day after the World Cup victory, the Zulu word
for Springbok, Amabokoboko, appeared as the headline of the Sowetan's sports page.A series of crises
followed from 1995 to 1997, with allegations by politicians that South African rugby was an
unreformed element of the new Rainbow Nation. Today, after repeated onslaughts by politicians with racial
quota systems and unsuccessful threats to change its name, the brand has emerged stronger than
ever, and stands proudly for winners and the ultimate respect a sporting side could earn:
world champions.The origins of the Springbok name and brandmarkThe South Africa national rugby union team,
commonly referred to as the Springboks or Boks for short in English, Springbokke or Bokke
for short in Afrikaans and Amabokoboko in Zulu, has won the Rugby World Cup twice
(1995 and 2007) and is currently ranked number one in the International Rugby Board (IRB)
World Rankings.The Springboks play in green and gold jerseys, and officially their emblems are the
Springbok, a South African antelope which is also South Africa's national animal, and the king
protea, South Africa's national flower. For creative directors, art directors, DTP operators, students and business
branding influencers such as accountants and lawyers this book is vital reading.For a free sample
eBook, more information or to order a copy of Face your brand! visit http://faceyourbrand.co.za/..
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