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Francois Pienaar

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Jacobus Francois Pienaar (born 2 January 1967) is a retired South African rugby union player. [1]

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Afrikaners

Afrikaners are a Southern African ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch settlers first arriving in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Andre Markgraaff

Andries Thomas "Andre" Markgraaff (born on 23 December 1956) was a South African rugby union lock.

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Anglo-Welsh Cup

The Anglo-Welsh Cup, was a cross-border rugby union knock-out cup competition that featured the 12 Premiership Rugby clubs and the four Welsh regions.

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Apartheid

Apartheid started in 1948 in theUnion of South Africa |year_start.

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Australia national rugby union team

The Australia national rugby union team, nicknamed the Wallabies, is controlled by Rugby Australia.

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Barbarian F.C.

The Barbarian Football Club, usually called the Barbarians and nicknamed the Baa-Baas, is an invitational rugby union team based in Britain.

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Canada national rugby union team

The Canada national rugby union team (Équipe du Canada de rugby à XV) is governed by Rugby Canada, and play in red and white.

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Cap (sport)

In sport, a cap is a metaphorical term for a player's appearance in a game at international level.

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Cape Town

Cape Town (Kaapstad,; Xhosa: iKapa) is a coastal city in South Africa.

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Captain (sports)

In team sports, captain is a title given to a member of the team.

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Chester Williams

Chester Mornay Williams (born 8 August 1970) is a former South African rugby union rugby player.

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Clint Eastwood

Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor, filmmaker, musician, and political figure.

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Currie Cup

The Currie Cup tournament is South Africa's premier domestic rugby union competition, played each winter and spring (June to October), featuring teams representing either entire provinces or substantial regions within provinces.

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Drop goal

A drop goal, field goal, dropped goal, or pot is a method of scoring points in rugby union and rugby league and also, rarely, in American football and Canadian football.

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Ellis Park Stadium

Ellis Park Stadium (known as Emirates Airline Park for sponsorship reasons) is a rugby union and association football stadium in the city of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, South Africa.

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European Rugby Champions Cup

The European Rugby Champions Cup (known as the Heineken Champions Cup for sponsorship reasons) is an annual rugby union tournament organised by European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR).

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Flanker (rugby union)

Flanker is a position in the sport of rugby union.

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France national rugby union team

The France national rugby union team competes annually against England, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales in the Six Nations Championship.

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Golden Lions

The Golden Lions (currently known as the Xerox Golden Lions for sponsorship reasons) is a rugby team based in Johannesburg, South Africa who compete in the annual Currie Cup and Vodacom Cup.

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Great South Africans

Great South Africans was a South African television series that aired on SABC3 and hosted by Noeleen Maholwana Sangqu and Denis Beckett.

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Honorary degree

An honorary degree, in Latin a degree honoris causa ("for the sake of the honor") or ad honorem ("to the honor"), is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived the usual requirements, such as matriculation, residence, a dissertation and the passing of comprehensive examinations.

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Invictus (film)

Invictus is a 2009 American-South African biographical sports drama film directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon.

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ITV Sport

ITV Sport is a sport producer for ITV.

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Joel Stransky

Joel Theodore Stransky (born 16 July 1967) is a former South African rugby union rugby player, most notable for scoring all of South Africa's points, including the famous dramatic winning drop goal, against New Zealand in the 1995 Rugby World Cup final.

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John Eales

John Eales AM (born 27 June 1970) is an Australian former rugby union player and the most successful captain in the history of Australian rugby.

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Jonah Lomu

Jonah Tali Lomu (12 May 1975 – 18 November 2015) was a New Zealand rugby union player.

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List of South Africa national rugby union team captains

Every player to captain the South Africa national rugby union team (Springboks) in a test match is listed here.

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Matt Damon

Matthew Paige Damon (born October 8, 1970) is an American actor, film producer and screenwriter.

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Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman, The New Yorker, July 3, 1978.

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Nelson Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.

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New Zealand national rugby union team

The New Zealand national rugby union team, called the All Blacks, represents New Zealand in men's rugby union, which is known as the country's national sport.

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Nick Farr-Jones

Nicholas Campbell Farr-Jones AM (born 18 April 1962 in Caringbah, New South Wales) is a former Australian rugby union footballer.

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Premiership Rugby

Premiership Rugby (officially known as Gallagher Premiership Rugby, or the Gallagher Premiership due to sponsorship reasons) is an English professional rugby union competition.

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Rand Afrikaans University

The Rand Afrikaans University (RAU) was a prominent South African institution of higher education and research that served the greater Johannesburg area and surroundings from 1967 to 2004.

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Romania national rugby union team

The Romania national rugby union team (Echipa națională de rugby a României), nicknamed The Oaks (Stejarii), is long considered one of the stronger European teams outside the Six Nations.

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Rugby union

Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Samoa national rugby union team

The Samoa national rugby union team (also known as Manu Samoa) is governed by the Samoa Rugby Union, which is owned by the affiliated Samoa Rugby Union.

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SANZAAR

SANZAAR (South Africa, New Zealand, Australia and Argentina Rugby) is the body which operates Super Rugby and The Rugby Championship competitions in Rugby Union.

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Saracens F.C.

Saracens Football Club are an English professional rugby union team based in London, England.

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South Africa national rugby union team

The South Africa national rugby union team, commonly known as the Springboks, is governed by the South African Rugby Union.

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The New York Times Book Review

The New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to The New York Times in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed.

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Tiaan Strauss

Christian Petrus 'Tiaan' Strauss, (born 28 June 1965 in Upington, South Africa) is a former rugby player who represented both South Africa and Australia at international level in rugby union and also played top-level domestic rugby league in Australia.

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University of Hertfordshire

The University of Hertfordshire is a university in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.

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Vereeniging

Vereeniging is a city in Gauteng province, South Africa, situated where the Klip River empties into the northern loop of the Vaal River.

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Wasps RFC

Wasps Rugby Football Club is an English professional rugby union team based in Coventry, England.

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Watford

Watford is a town and borough in North West London, England, situated northwest of central London and inside the circumference of the M25 motorway.

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Webb Ellis Cup

The Webb Ellis Cup is the trophy awarded to the winner of the Rugby World Cup, the premier competition in men's international rugby union.

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Witbank

Witbank, renamed eMalahleni in 2006 is a city situated on the Highveld of Mpumalanga, South Africa, within the eMalahleni Local Municipality.

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World Rugby Hall of Fame

The World Rugby Hall of Fame (formerly the IRB Hall of Fame) recognises special achievement and contribution to the sport of rugby union.

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1995 Rugby World Cup

The 1995 Rugby World Cup was the third Rugby World Cup.

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2007 Rugby World Cup

The 2007 Rugby World Cup was the sixth Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition inaugurated in 1987.

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2011 Rugby World Cup

The 2011 Rugby World Cup was the seventh Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition inaugurated in 1987.

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2015 Rugby World Cup

The 2015 Rugby World Cup was the eighth Rugby World Cup, the quadrennial rugby union world championship.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francois_Pienaar

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