' Although unknown, it has been suggested that his name may have been derived from Springbok player Joost van der Westhuizen.

That year, Dewar opposed a visit to Aberdeen by the Springbok rugby side, staging a silent vigil near the ground.

* Opposition against Apartheid in South Africa and worldwide grows to a mass international condemnation of racial segregation policies comes to a peak by December 1989 in the Springbok summit when SA President de Klerk grants clemency to imprisoned ANC activist Nelson Mandela who was released in February 1990.

It becomes the central inspirational gift from Mandela, played by Morgan Freeman, to Springbok rugby team captain François Pienaar, played by Matt Damon, in advance of the post-apartheid Rugby World Cup hosted in 1995 by South Africa and won by the underdog Springboks.

* Springbok voiced by Pam Grier

The 1981 South African rugby union tour of New Zealand ( known by many in New Zealand as The Springbok Tour, and in South Africa as The Rebel Tour ) was a controversial tour of New Zealand by the South Africa national rugby union team, known as " the Springboks ".

However, South African rugby authorities continued to select Springbok players by race.

In the absence of television in South Africa, a radio version of the British television series The Avengers was produced by Sonovision for SABC's commercial network, Springbok Radio, in 1972.

A planned 1979 Springbok tour of France was stopped by the French government, who announced that it was inappropriate for South African teams to tour France.

In the first test a lacklustre Springbok team beat Italy by 29 – 13.

The Springbok was regarded as representing both the exclusion of players who were not designated white under apartheid legislation and, by extension, of apartheid itself.

Although the Springbok was adopted briefly by the first coloured national rugby team in 1939 and by their first black counterparts in 1950, it became exclusively associated with segregated sporting codes afterwards.

The All Blacks have won about 12 % more matches than South Africa because of a run of Springbok losses between 1998 and 2004, that many believe to be caused by the lack of a reliable goal kicker during this period.

He wrote several chess books including Chess Springbok, My Book of Fun and Games, Grosse Remispartien ( in German ; an English edition entitled Draw !, edited by John Nunn, was published in 1982 ), and Lacking the Master Touch ( 1970 ).

The animals butchered by the tools include waterbuck, hartebeest, Springbok, pig and zebra.

Botha remained the highest points scorer in Springbok rugby history for a number of years, with a points total of 312, until 17 July 2004, when his tally was passed by Percy Montgomery.

Despite being made by London Weekend Television, all episodes of Gladiators, International Gladiators, the second series of The Ashes and the first series of The Springbok Challenge were recorded at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham.

Among signings to date, specialist cover for Glen Jackson came in the form of Scotland fly half Gordon Ross, while South African utility back Brent Russell was highly regarded by many Springbok fans.

They are bordered on the west by the Sandveld, the north by the Pakhuis Mountains, the east by the Springbok flats and the south by the Kouebokkeveld Mountains and the Skurweberge.

It was reported in the Daily Mail on 20 September 1906, seven days before the first match, that ' The team's colours will be myrtle green with gold collar ... and will have embroidered in mouse-coloured silk on the left breast a Springbok '.

As portrayed in the film Invictus, pressure to replace the Springbok as emblem for the rugby team came to a head in 1994, just before the Rugby World Cup that would take place in South Africa.

Later he coached various under-19 and under-21 sides before assisting Springbok squad preparations by doing video analysis for them.

He also captained the ' Springbok ' armed forces in games during the war just before El Alamein and in Italy.

A Scout is required to complete all the requirements for the Springbok award before their 18th birthday.

Eight years would pass before they would first lift the Currie Cup in 1946, when they defeated the Western Province 11-9 at home at Loftus Versfeld thanks to two dropped goals ( one off his left foot ) by Springbok flyhalf Hansie Brewis ; the score was 8-9 to Province ( a drop goal counted 4 points in those days ).

Christie, after being asked to leave by the Northerns administration halfway through the 1990 season, moulded the players into a great unit and achieved success in 1993 and 1994 at Currie Cup level before becoming Springbok coach to win the World Cup in 1995.

Botha played for the under-19 and under-23 Springbok sides before being chosen for the South African " A " team that toured Europe at the end of 2001.

He also featured frequently in the Springbok squad before his departure for Europe.

After the Springbok tour, no official sporting contact took place between New Zealand and South Africa until the early 1990s, when apartheid had been repealed.

By the early 1980s the pressure from other African countries as well as from protest groups in New Zealand, such as HART, reached a head when the New Zealand Rugby Union proposed a Springbok tour for 1981.

Willie John McBride instigated a policy of " one in, all in "-that is, when one Lion retaliated, all other Lions were expected to join in the melee or hit the nearest Springbok.

* Another incident involving the South African team took place at the 2003 Rugby World Cup in Australia when an intoxicated Samoan fan, with his face painted in the red and blue of the Samoan flag, ran onto the pitch and attempted to tackle Springbok Louis Koen as he was kicking a goal in the late stages of a pool match against Samoa.

At one stage, Foley and fellow protester Billy Craigie were arrested for wearing Springbok jerseys outside the team motel in Bondi Junction with the police believing they had been stolen when they had been supplied by former Wallaby Jim Boyce.

However, in the 1980s the SABC ended up killing off many of these independent production houses when Springbok Radio closed down.

Springbok Radio's programme schedules reflected the White, primarily English-speaking, suburban lifestyle of the period, when many women were housewives.

The Springbok squad's performance suffered after Teichmann was dropped until 2000 when Mallett resigned as coach of the Springboks.

Smit played his first Springbok game in 2000 at the age of 22, when South Africa beat Canada 51 – 18 at Basil Kenyon Stadium in East London.

Smit led South Africa in their opening game of the 2008 Tri Nations, against New Zealand in Wellington, but suffered a groin injury when he was lifted and dumped by New Zealand lock Brad Thorn after the whistle had blown: Thorn received a one-match suspension but Smit missed the rest of the tournament, being replaced as captain by veteran Springbok lock, Victor Matfield.

Despite having almost no experience at coaching the fifteen-man code at any senior level, Williams was mentioned as one of the possible successors to Springbok coach Rudolph Straeuli after he resigned in 2003, but when the job was given to Jake White in 2004 he became coach of the Cats Super 12 team instead.

Matfield has won the Currie Cup final three times (' 02, ' 04 & ' 09 having been on World Cup duty in ' 03 when Bulls won and withdrawn from Currie Cup action in ' 06 by the then Springbok coach Jake White when the Bulls shared the cup ), the Super 14 title in 2007, 2009 and 2010, the Tri-Nations in 2004 and 2009 and the Rugby World Cup in 2007.

He was rewarded with a recall to the Springbok training camp in May 2007, and when Danie Rossouw was taken ill, Skinstad was named on the bench for the second test against England on 2 June, continuing a remarkable comeback.