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Who is Naas Botha

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Naas Botha is widely regarded as South Africa’s greatest flyhalf of the amateur era, earning 28 Test caps between 1980 and 1992 and scoring 312 Test points. A master tactician and precision kicker, he guided the Springboks through their years of international isolation and was inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame. Despite losing the prime years of his career to apartheid-era bans, he remains one of the most celebrated players in South African rugby history.

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