Can the Rainbow Nation ever shine through South Africa’s fog of racism?

Malwande Mhamhe, a promising black player, tells David Smith how prejudice forced him out of the game and lifts the lid on attitudes in South African rugbyMalwande Mhamhe is the same age as South Africa’s multiracial democracy. He will not be pulling on the green and gold of the Springboks at the World Cup this month, but studying in university lecture halls and libraries in Johannesburg. His professional playing career appears finished at 21, a tale of what might have been.For this he blames racism, which he contends is still rife in the sport despite the fall of apartheid in 1994. Mhamhe cla…