| Intro | South African rugby union footballer and coach | ||||
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| Gender | male | ||||
| Birth | 30 January 1976, Lady Frere, South Africa | ||||
| Age: | 44 years | ||||
| Star sign | Aquarius | ||||
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Kayalethu Malotana (born 30 January 1976 in Lady Frere) is a South African former rugby union player, current coach & a xhosa commentator in rugby. He was educated at Queenstown’s Queen’s College Boys’ High School where he matriculated in 1994 and received honors for Rugby. He was the first black African player of his country to play for the Springboks at the 1999 Rugby World Cup. Under his coaching career, he’s coached the South African U20 Women’s National team, the Lions and as of January 2020 was appointed as the head coach of the TUT Vikings.
Career
Debuting in Currie Cup for the Border Bulldogs, Malotana played his first Super Rugby season in 1999 for the Cats, currently Lions.
He played his only match for the Springboks in the 1999 Rugby World Cup, becoming the first black player to play in South Africa in this edition of the World Cup.
He ended his career in the Pirates, from Johannesburg. Later, in 2007, he was appointed as Development Officer for the Lions, thanks also to his fluency in English, Afrikans, Xhosa, Zulu and Tswana.
In 2009, he then became an assistant coach for the Lions, and in 2010, the head coach of the South Africa women’s Under-20 national team. In January 2020, he was appointed as head coach of the TUT Vikings rugby team and was once also a head of rugby at his former school, Queen’s College.
He’s also a xhosa language commentator of rugby.