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We look back at some of the gems from Springboks coach Peter de Villiers, who stepped down from the top job after his team’s loss to the Wallabies.

Comparing Schalk Burger / Bakkies Botha to FW De Klerk / Nelson Mandela:
“The small things like judicial hearings will not take away the fact that we won. Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk won the Nobel Peace Prize. No matter what they did wrong in their lives, no one can take away the fact that they won it.”

When asked if he is the weakest link in the Bok setup:
“If I’m the weakest link then we are bloody strong. I’m a God-given talent. I am the best I can ever be. I know what I am and I don’t give a damn.”

Defending Ricky Januarie ahead of the second Lions Test, then not selecting him for the game:
“What I learned in South Africa is, if you take your car to a garage and the owner is black or a black man, and they mess it up, you never go back to that garage. If the owner is white, you say ag, sorry, they made a mistake and you go back again. This is how some people live their lives in this country.”

When asked why Morgan Newman was picked for the SA XV against Namibia:
“Ja, you know. Morgan Newman has been in form his whole life.”

When asked if he’ll change his style after a week of criticism:
“I won’t change my style, if I change my style I will change Peter de Villiers, and then I would have to tell God that he made a mistake when he made me,”

Ahead of a test against Wales:
“We will give them a psychological advantage and we cannot allow that. We’ve read in the papers here that they believe South Africa are ripe for the picking. They’re comparing us with some fruit from a Welsh fruit farm but they need to know that when you pick fruit, it isn’t just apples and pears; there are prickly pears as well. We want to be a prickly pear for them this Saturday.”

After the Boks’ second consecutive win over the All Blacks in the 2009 Trinations:
“The way things are going right now, in a few year’

Springbok coach Peter de Villiers completes one year in charge of the world champions today.

It was on Wednesday, 9 January 2008 that de Villiers became the first black coach to take charge of the South African national side in 117 years.
Since then he has steered the new-look Boks to nine wins in 13 tests in 2008 and picked up some notable landmark victories along the way.
Not that as he moves into the second spell of his two-year contract he will be dwelling on the past. Ahead of him lies a vital revenge mission for the whole of South Africa when the Springboks take on the British & Irish Lions this summer.
It is 12 years since the Lions were last in South Africa. In 1997, Martin Johnson’s men emerged with a 2-1 series victory over the then reigning world champions and de Villiers now has to go head-to-head this summer with the man who masterminded the Lions victory, Ian McGeechan.
While the Tri-Nations series provided moderate success, there were still plenty of sound building blocks put in place over de Villiers’ first-year in charge.
There was a first win over All Blacks in Dunedin, and a first triumph on New Zealand soil since 1998. There were record thrashings of Australia in Johannesburg (53-8) and England at Twickenham (42-6) and three successive victories over Grand Slam Wales.
With Dick Muir, who captained Western Province against the 1997 Lions, and Gary Gold working alongside him, de Villiers has assembled a highly skilled coaching team and experimented with moving World Cup winning captain John Smit back to tight head prop.
As he said recently: “We never said it was going to be a perfect world. If you look at the Bible, Joseph started out in the pit and ended up in the palace.”
Just how palatial his surroundings will be later in the year will be determined by the outcome of the three Test series against the Lions.

Pieter de Villiers, a3b7c4
Gender: Male
Birth: May 13 1732 - Paarl, Western Cape, South Africa
Baptism: June 22 1732 - NGK Drakenstein
Marriage: Spouse: Elisabeth Anna Kriel, b5c2 - Mar 1 1789 - Drakenstein Local Municipality
Death: Nov 2 1797 - La Provence, Franschoek, Cape, South Africa
Burial: Breede River DC, Western Cape, South Africa
Father: Jacob de Villiers, SV3b7
Mother: Louisa DE VILLIERS (born Joubert), a1b6
Wives: Susanna du Buisson, b2c2, Elisabeth Strijdom, b3c4d2, Elisabeth Anna Kriel, b5c2
Children: Jacoba Maria de Villiers, a3b7c4d12, Jacob de Villiers, a3b7c4d1, Hester Elisabeth de Villiers, a3b7c4d17, Johannes Petrus de Villiers, a3b7c4d2, Rachel de Villiers, a3b7c4d3, Pieter Abraham de Villiers, a3b7c4d4, Pieter Daniel de Villiers, a3b5c4d5, Elisabeth Maryna de Villiers, a3b7c4d15, Louisa Margaretha de Villiers, a3b7c4d6, Abraham Johannes de Villiers, a3b7c4d7, Elizabeth Catharina de Villiers, a3b7c4d8, Catharina de Villiers, a3b7c4d11, Albertus Johannes de Villiers, a3b7c4d9, Hermanus Johannes de Villiers (born DE VILLIERS), a3b7c4d18, Susanna Johanna de Villiers, a3b7c4d10, Albertus Johannes de Villiers, a3b7c4d13, Hester Jacoba Zeeman (born de Villiers), a3b7c4d14, Jacobus Petrus de Villiers, a3b7c4d16
Siblings: Margaretha de Villiers, a3b7c1, Jacob de Villiers, a3b7c2, Elisabeth de Villiers, a3b7c3, Louisa Jacoba de Villiers, a3b7c5