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SA Rugby’s man in the trenches

JURIE Roux turned 50 recently. There was little fanfare and he spent a few hours of the evening celebrating someone else’s birthday.

Roux, at the helm of South African rugby for the past 11 years, has always been unassuming and understated, but he has been emphatically present and powerful in restoring South African rugby to its rightful place in the game’s world order.

Google hardly does Roux’s contribution justice when it comes to the health of South African rugby.

You won’t

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