{"id":21650,"date":"2025-12-25T12:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T10:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/hundreds-join-springboks-coach-for-annual-christmas-walk-in-cape-town\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:32:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:32:39","slug":"hundreds-join-springboks-coach-for-annual-christmas-walk-in-cape-town","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/hundreds-join-springboks-coach-for-annual-christmas-walk-in-cape-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds join Springboks Coach for annual Christmas Walk in Cape Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Hundreds of rugby supporters have shown up to join Springbok coach, Rassie Erasmus, at his annual Christmas Walk on Thursday morning. Rugby supporters from all walks of life have joined in on the walk between Bloubergstrand and Table View in Cape Town.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Springboks Coach set the six-kilometer walk as a way of celebrating South Africans and rugby lovers for their support for the team over the past year.<\/div>\n<div>This is what some of the supporters had to say.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cI am a rugby hooligan and an avid Bok supporter and it is such an awesome vibe to be here. there are hundreds of people. Christmas spirit ,it is awesome and I actually got a picture with Rassie so I am happy my day is made.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A second supporter it is quite a privilege that Rassie lives in their area. \u201cI think it is wonderful that the community has come out to support him and he seems as genuine in real life as he is on tv so that\u2019s absolutely great.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20557,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-21650","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Erasmus set the six-kilometer walk as a way of celebrating South Africans and rugby lovers.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Erasmus set the six-kilometer walk as a way of celebrating South Africans and rugby lovers.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25237,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21650\/revisions\/25237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=21650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}