Jacobus Francois Pienaar is a retired South African rugby union player. He played flanker for South Africa from 1993 until 1996, winning 29 international caps, all of them as captain. He is best known for leading South Africa to victory in the 1995 Rugby World Cup.
Pienaar was born in Vereeniging, South Africa, into a working-class Afrikaner family, and is the eldest of four boys. After completing high school at Hoërskool Patriot Witbank, he won an athletic scholarship to the Rand Afrikaans University, where he studied law.
Jacobus Francois Pienaar
BORN: 2 January 1967 (age 54)
HOME TOWN: Vereeniging, South Africa
SPOUSE: Nerine Winter
CHILDREN: Stephane Pienaar
OCCUPATION: Rugby Player, Writer, Official, Sports commentator
AWARDS: Pienaar wrote his autobiography Rainbow Warrior with Edward Griffiths in 1999. In November 2000, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Hertfordshire. Pienaar was also involved in South Africa’s failed bid to host the 2011 Rugby World Cup in 2005…
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