List of South Africa national rugby union team captains
Every player to captain the South Africa national rugby union team (Springboks) in a test match is listed here. Captains are listed in chronological order of their first match as captain So far there has been 61 captains of the men's Springbok team, with H.H.

List of South Africa national rugby union team captains

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Table Section Text: Every player to captain the South Africa national rugby union team (Springboks) in a test match is listed here. Captains are listed in chronological order of their first match as captain So far there has been 61 captains of the men's Springbok team, with H.H.

№	Player	Initials	Date of first test	Date of first test as captain	Tests played	Tests played as captain

1	Herbert Castens	HH	30 July 1891	30 July 1891	1	1

2	Bob Snedden	RCD	29 August 1891	29 August 1891	1	1

3	Alf Richards	AR	30 July 1891	5 September 1891	1	1

4	Ferdie Aston	F	30 July 1896	30 July 1896	4	3

5	Fairy Heatlie	BH	9 August 1896	5 September 1896	6	2

6	Alex Frew	A	29 August 1903	29 August 1903	1	1

7	Jackie Powell	JM	19 August 1891	05 September 1903	4	1

8	Paddy Carolin	HW	12 September 1903	17 November 1906	3	1

9	Paul Roos	PJ	12 September 1903	24 November 1906	4	3

10	Dougie Morkel	DFT	24 November 1906	06 August 1910	9	2

11	Billy Millar	WA	08 December 1906	27 August 1910	6	5

12	Theo Pienaar	TB	—	1921	—	—

13	Uncle Dobbin	FJ	29 Augstus 1904	23 November 1913	9	1

14	Boy Morkel	WH	03 September 1910	13 August 1921	9	3

15	PK Albertyn	PK	16 August 1924	16 Augstus 1924	4	4

16	Phil Mostert	PJ	13 August 1921	30 June 1928	14	4

17	Bennie Osler	BL	16 August 1924	05 December 1931	17	5

18	Phil Nel	PJ	30 June 1928	08 July 1933	16	8

19	Danie Craven	DH	05 December 1931	14 August 1937	16	4

20	Felix du Plessis	F	16 July 1949	16 July 1949	3	3

21	Basil Kenyon	BJ	17 September 1949	17 September 1949	1	1

22	Hennie Muller	HSV	16 July 1949	24 November 1951	13	9

23	Stephen Fry	SP	04 November 1951	06 August 1955	13	4

24	Basie Vivier	SS	26 May 1956	26 May 1956	5	5

25	Salty du Rand	JA	13 August 1949	14 July 1956	21	1

26	Johan Claassen	JT	06 August 1955	26 July 1958	28	9

27	Des van Jaarsveldt	DC	30 April 1960	30 April 1960	1	1

28	Roy Dryburgh	RG	20 August 1955	25 June 1960	8	2

29	Avril Malan	AS	25 June 1960	13 August 1960	16	10

30	Abie Malan	GF	16 August 1958	13 July 1963	18	4

31	Nelie Smith	CM	24 August 1963	25 July 1964	7	4

32	Dawie de Villiers	DJ	21 July 1962	31 July 1965	25	22

33	Tommy Bedford	TP	13 July 1963	16 August 1969	25	3

34	Hannes Marais	JFK	24 August 1963	12 June 1971	35	11

35	Piet Greyling	PJF	15 July 1967	30 June 1972	25	1

36	Morné du Plessis	M	17 July 1971	21 June 1975	22	15

37	Theuns Stofberg	MTS	14 August 1976	18 October 1980	21	4

38	Wynand Claassen	W	30 May 1981	30 May 1981	7	7

39	Divan Serfontein	DJ	31 May 1980	20 October 1984	19	2

40	Naas Botha	HE	26 April 1980	10 May 1986	23	9

41	Jannie Breedt	JC	10 May 1986	26 August 1989	6	2

42	Francois Pienaar	JF	26 June 1993	26 June 1993	29	29

43	Tiaan Strauss	CP	17 October 1992	09 July 1994	15	1

44	Adriaan Richter	AH	17 October 1992	30 May 1995	10	1

45	Gary Teichmann	GH	02 September 1995	17 August 1996	42	36

46	Corné Krige	CP	19 June 1999	19 June 1999	39	18

47	Rassie Erasmus	J	05 July 1997	17 July 1999	36	1

48	Joost van der Westhuizen	JH	06 November 1993	07 August 1999	89	10

49	André Vos	AN	12 June 1999	10 October 1999	33	16

50	Bob Skinstad	RB	29 November 1997	30 June 2001	42	12

51	John Smit	JF	10 June 2000	24 October 2003	111	83

52	Victor Matfield	V	30 June 2001	23 June 2007	125	21

53	Johann Muller	J	10 June 2006	14 July 2007	22	1

54	Jean de Villiers	J	09 November 2002	09 June 2012	109	37

55	Schalk Burger	SWP	24 October 2003	25 July 2015	86	1

56	Fourie du Preez	PF	12 June 2004	03 October 2015	74	2

57	Adriaan Strauss	JA	19 July 2008	11 June 2016	57	3

**	Patrick Lambie	PJ	06 November 2010	05 November 2010	58	1

58	Warren Whiteley	WR	06 September 2014	10 June 2017	17	2

59	Eben Etzebeth	E	09 June 2012	24 June 2017	67	11

60	Pieter-Steph du Toit	P	09 November 2013	02 June 2018	34	1

61	Siya Kolisi	SK	16 June 2013	09 June 2018	37	9

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John Smit was the captain of the South Africa national rugby union team.

final_sentence: John Smit was the captain of the South Africa national rugby union team.