EXCLUSIVE: Springbok Siya Kolisi’s emotional bid to end violence against women – Wide World of Sports

Siya Kolisi never knew the woman in his photograph.
He never knew his mother without the scars of violent abuse.
The woman in his photo is beautiful and for that, Kolisi’s heart aches. He and his siblings were robbed of that mother. She was robbed of herself.
“When I was young, my mum used to be abused quite a lot,” the World Cup-winning Springboks captain told Wide World of Sports on a Zoom call, sharing the precious photo.
“I found this picture of her … I don’t have a lot of pictures of he…

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