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Pages in category "South Africa national rugby union team coaches" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The South African Rugby Union (SARU) is the governing body for rugby union in South Africa and is affiliated to World Rugby. It was established in 1992 as the South African Rugby Football Union, from the merger of the South African Rugby Board and the non-racial South African Rugby Union (SACOS) , and took up its current name in 2005.
Peter de Villiers (born 3 June 1957) is a South African professional rugby union coach and former Good Party politician. He was coach of the South Africa national rugby union team from 2008 to 2011, after successes with the South African U19 and U21 squads, and the first-ever non-white to be appointed to the position. [1] He enjoyed mixed ...
Pages in category "South African rugby union coaches" The following 104 pages are in this category, out of 104 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The team has represented South African Rugby Union in international rugby union since 30 July 1891, when they played their first test match against a British Isles touring team. Currently, the Springboks are the reigning World Champions, having won the World Cup a record four times ( 1995 , 2007 , 2019 and 2023 ).
Johan "Rassie" Erasmus (born 5 November 1972) is a South African rugby union coach and former player. He was the head coach of the South African national team from 2018 to the end of their 2019 World Cup campaign, doubling up on his duties as the first ever SARU Director of Rugby, to which he was appointed towards the end of 2017.
He also stayed in touch with the game through his involvement with the South African Rugby Legends Association (SARLA). In 2013 Ian McIntosh became the first South African and the first Durban North resident to win the IRB’s Vernon Pugh Award for Distinguished Service, recognising his achievement in changing the face of rugby in South Africa. [2]
Joubert was the head coach of Namibia in their first appearance at the Rugby World Cup finals, in 1999. Joubert took on the head coaching of division in the Western Cape in 1999. Rudy Joubert coached Cardiff in 2001, but was tempted to coach Super Rugby back in his home country and returned to coach the Bulls in 2002 and 2003.