Sa rugby awards
SA Rugby Awards: Kolisi wins big
SIya Kolisi was at the helm as the Springboks defeated the British and Irish Lions and was the only Bok to play in all 13 tests last year.
After beating fellow nominees Damian de Allende, Cheslin Kolbe, Makazole Mapimpi and Duane Vermeulen to the title, he now joins Naas Botha and Bryan Habana as the only other player to have won it three times.
The Springboks and Rassie Erasmus, who were also honoured at the World Rugby Awards last month, have been nominated in the prestigious Team and Coach of the Year categories.
Pieter-Steph du Toit and Malcolm Marx are up against their national teammates Aphiwe Dyantyi, Franco Mostert and Handré Pollard.