Nowhere does the RainbowNation display its colours to greater effect than among Cape Town's places to eat - this is a city that feasts on its multiculturalism.
The former wife of the president, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, told mourners that if South Africa was a rainbownation, the rainbow did not appear to include the colour black.
This was the first major event to be held in the RainbowNation, and with Mandela and Desmond Tutu adopting the Springbok symbols the nation got behind the 'one team, one country' slogan.
It may have the often infuriating but also charming and innocent sense of chaos that comes with "the rainbownation", but it will be passionately supported by a whole country that will be united for the month.