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Sacha Mngomezulu who attended Bishops College, has risen up the ranks and show cased his talent on many occasions. This has led him to represent Western Province at schoolboy level and at the age of 19, has represented the Junior Springboks. What's more is that Sacha has made his debut for the senior Western Province side and is growing into a well disciplined fly half.

In this introductory interview, Sacha talks about meeting expectations, why he chose to stay in South Africa, the necessity of hard work and what lies ahead of him.

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Eric Simons, who has a reputation of working hard behind the scenes and ever striving to bring the best out of the players he is involved with, spoke about some points in cricket that were refreshing and very interesting to hear.  

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Robbi Kempson, who is a former Springbok, and who also represented the  likes of Ulster and The Sharks, gives us his thoughts on the recent  Springbok performances against the All Blacks.   

Robbi also has a close look at the Stormers, Sharks and his former club Ulster and where they stand in the competition. 

Robbi gives a great  breakdown of the current situation of rugby in South Africa and how much  expectation is put on the squad.   

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Aaron Mokoena has represented South Africa over 100 times for club and country. Aaron has played in the English Premier League for Blackburn Rovers and Portsmouth in which he experienced all there is to experience in the world's most competitive league.

Aaron spent his last year's as a footballer with Bidvest Wits and Aaron believes he has "ticked all the boxes" which has allowed him to grow as footballer and be instrumental in leadership positions for South Africa and for his European clubs.

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Austin Smith represented South Africa in hockey on 183 occasions. At the  tender age of 18, Austin received his first call up to the national  side and from there, he built up a career that is going to be hard to  forget.

Since 2009, Austin also represented Den Bosch in the Netherlands as his hockey club and was able to change many perceptions about the abilities and potential of South African hockey players.

We touch on what is keeping him busy besides hockey, what South Africa needs to focus on immediately and who has had an influence on his career.

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Nadine Roos is an outstanding example to all aspiring sports persons particularly those who wish to make rugby their profession.   

Nadine is a prime athlete who has overcome all odds to prove that through hard work, goal setting and determination, anything is possible.   

We speak about how she has pushed through tough circumstances to make the most of her opportunities, how CrossFit has been another focus point for her as well as her drive to push herself that much more each day.  

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Daniel Smith was selected for the South Africa U19 squad and was appointed as captain. This is after the talented left-handed batsmen proved his worth by scoring 12 centuries during his time at SACS.   

In this final part of the series of School Focus, we have a look at Paarl Boys High School.

Peter Engledow with vast rugby coaching experience is the Head of Rugby at Paarl Boys. Peter has spent a number of years coaching in England and was also the Head Coach at Griquas. Peter now finds himself in an interesting situation at Paarl Boys where the competition is at a high level.

In this interview, we look at Peter's career, where Paarl Boys currently stands in terms of fixtures, style of play vs results and what is the point of coaching.

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Victor Matfield - one of South Africa's best all time leaders spoke on some interesting topics regarding rugby in South Africa.

Victor, who is well-known for his time at the Blue Bulls, went on to represent the Springboks on 127 occasions.

We have a close look at the British and Irish Lions tour and talk about who the best lock pairing is as well as Itoje vs Etzebeth - who is better? We zone in on the set piece situation South Africa has been dominate in and what is working for the side.

Just how impressive our coaches have been is another aspect and we touch on The Rugby Championship.

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Odwa Ndungane spent the majority of his rugby career with The Sharks with some of his stats as follows:

Springbok caps: 9

British & Irish Lions tour: 1 (2009)

Sharks caps: 135

We have a close look at the Springboks in this talk and discuss what has made the squad such a force to be reckoned with. The Springboks seem set to win all major trophies that are available to them and it is only a matter of time to see if this is possible especially with The Rugby Championship under way.

We hope you enjoy this lighthearted conversation.

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