Tag: Birthday Tribute

TATJANA SMITH TURNS 29: THE GIRL NEXT DOOR WHO BECAME SA’S GREATEST OLYMPIAN

Swimming
Birthday Tribute - Tatjana Smith | 9 July 2026 | Swimming · South Africa · Swimming THE TOUCH Paris, August 2024. The 100 metre breaststroke final....

DUANE VERMEULEN TURNS 40: THE LEADER WHO NEVER NEEDED THE ARMBAND

Rugby
Birthday Tribute - Duane Vermeulen | 3 July 2026 | Springboks - South Africa - Rugby There are rugby players who need the captain's armband...

IVAN VAN ZYL TURNS 31: SHUT OUT AT HOME, CHAMPION ABROAD

Rugby
Birthday Tribute | 30 June 2026 | Saracens · Springboks · Rugby Twickenham, May 2023. The Premiership final. Saracens against Sale. And in the second...

TIAAN STRAUSS TURNS 61: THE BOK WHO WON THE WORLD CUP IN GOLD, NOT GREEN

Rugby
Birthday Tribute | Tiaan Strauss | 28 June 2026 | Western Province | Springboks | Wallabies | Rugby Union Picture the scene. It is 1995....

DALE STEYN TURNS 43: THE FASTEST GUN PHALABORWA EVER PRODUCED

Cricket
Dale Steyn | Birthday Tribute | 27 June 2026 | Titans · Proteas · Cricket Picture Perth. November 2016. Dale Steyn runs in off his...

CURWIN BOSCH TURNS 29: THE TALENTED FLY-HALF WHO NEVER QUITE GOT HIS CHANCE

Rugby
Birthday Tribute | 25 June 2026 | Sharks · South Africa · Rugby He is 29 years old, living in France, and playing second-tier rugby...

AKKER VAN DER MERWE TURNS 35: THE WARTHOG NEVER STOPS CHARGING

Rugby
Birthday Tribute | Akker van der Merwe | 17 June 2026 | Bulls · South Africa · Rugby Union Picture a ruck on the floor...

SIYA KOLISI TURNS 35: THE LAST LINE OF DEFENCE

Rugby
Picture the young Siya Kolisi. He sleeps near the front door of his grandmother's two-room house in Zwide township, Port Elizabeth, on a makeshift...

KWAGGA SMITH TURNS 33: THE ANIMAL THAT WASN’T SUPPOSED TO EXIST

Rugby
There is a theory in South African rugby that certain players don’t fit the template. Too small, too light, not quite a six, not...

ALBIE MORKEL TURNS 45: FROM MATCH-WINNER TO MASTER COACH

Cricket
April 2012. Chennai. The target is 206. Chennai Super Kings are in trouble, wickets down, the asking rate climbing past what most teams would...

DAVID MILLER: THE SUPERHERO FINISHER WHO NEVER FLINCHED

Cricket
There are cricketers who accumulate runs, and there are cricketers who win games. David Miller belongs firmly in the second category. Born on this...

PIERRE SPIES TURNS 41: THE BULL WHO CARRIED A NATION’S HOPES

Rugby
There are rugby players who make their living in the hard yards, who do the grinding work that never makes the highlight reel. And...
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