MARK KEOHANE | And now, a moment for Cheslin Kolbe, SA’s best rugby player and world’s best back
It was at Toulouse in France where Kolbe showed us what he’s truly made of
18 March 2025 - 04:35
Cheslin Kolbe celebrated his crowning as South Africa’s Player of the Year with a typical five pointer in Japan’s League 1 match this past weekend, but had it not been for Rassie Erasmus’s intervention in 2018 Kolbe could easily have been on the wing for France in Paris in their Guinness Six Nations title triumph...
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