Kwagga Smith

Albertus "Kwagga" Smith was born in Lydenburg on 11 June 1993. He was schooled at HTS Middelburg and played two Craven Weeks for the Pumas, in 2010 and 2011.

Sevens made his name first. Between 2013 and 2017 he played 158 matches for South Africa's sevens side. He won Commonwealth Games gold in Glasgow in 2014 and Olympic bronze in Rio in 2016.

At the same time he was building a fifteens career in Johannesburg. He won the 2015 Currie Cup with the Lions and made 49 Super Rugby appearances for the franchise between 2015 and 2019.

He joined Yamaha Júbilo in Japan in 2018; the club is now the Shizuoka Blue Revs. He won the World Cup with the Springboks in 2019 and 2023.