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Posts Tagged ‘Francois Pienaar’


Francois Pienaar’s verdict on South Africa

Posted 590 days ago

As South Africans come to terms with the weekend’s quarter-final loss to Australia, Francois Pienaar, captain of the team that famously won the tournament in 1995, offers a pragmatic view on a match that he feels the Springboks could certainly have won.
“The team, management and South African supporters will all feel that the Boks were unlucky, with the indifferent refereeing…

INVICTUS – Reviewing rugby's Hollywood film

Posted 1261 days ago

By Paul Morgan, editor of Rugby World Magazine
I often feel privileged in my job and one of those times came last week when I was lucky enough to be one of the first people to see the new Clint Eastwood movie about the way Nelson Mandela used rugby to unite South Africa, after he was elected as President in the…

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