Pieter-Steph du Toit will go down as one of the Springboks' greatest ever players.
Pieter-Steph du Toit is three Springboks' caps away from the century milestone and the accolade, when it comes, could not be more richly deserved.
Du Toit, a two-time World Rugby Player of the Year, is probably the greatest player to wear the green and gold, and I do not make that contention lightly.
I’d like to relate the remarkable story of a player I was lucky enough to write about at the very start of his career.
When teenage Du Toit arrived in Durban in 2012, straight out of a rural school in the Western Cape, the Sharks coach John Plumtree revealed an interesting fact about the quiet giant from the Swartland.







