Awards and Honours
- In 1995 he was voted Rugby Personality of the Year by Britain's Rugby Union Writers' Club, as well as Newsmaker of the Year in South Africa.
- In 2004 he was voted 50th in the Top 100 Great South Africans.
- In 2005 he was inducted into the International Rugby Hall of Fame.
- On 24 October 2011, he was inducted into the IRB Hall of Fame.
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