SIYA IS SILENT NO LONGER
INSIDE Siya Kolisi’s home is a photo of his mother when she was 17. Her skin is smooth and free from the scars she’d later bear from beatings at the hands of abusive partners.
Siya remembers the anguished cries of his mother when he lay awake at night as a young boy, powerless and terrified by the unseen trauma being meted out in the next room.
“I carry that pain with me today,” the Rugby World Cup-winning Springbok captain says over Zoom, sitting holding hands with his wife, Rachel, on the sofa of their Cape Town home .
“But that’s why I’m speaking out now,” he declares. “That’s why I’m using my platform. I can’t
