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Cape Town - The third annual star-studded BrightRock Players Choice Awards was held at the The Park at Hyde Park in Johannesburg on Tuesday with Pieter-Steph du Toit taking home the coveted Players' Player of the Year award as well as two others.
Du Toit followed in the footsteps of Springbok captain, Siya Kolisi, who won the prestigious award in 2017 and hooker, Malcolm Marx, the winner in 2018.
The winners were decided by South Africa's professional rugby players in a voting process which was run by MyPlayers, the South African rugby players’ organisation.
Over and above the Players' Player of the Year award, du Toit won the Defender of the Year and Forward of the Year.
Other winners on the night included Herschel Jantjies (Best of the Bench and #LoveChange Award), Cheslin Kolbe (Backline Player of the Year) and Rosko Specman (Fan's Choice Award).
South Africa’s professional rugby players donated R70 000 out of the players’ collective income to the Chris Burger Petro Jackson Players’ Fund in support of rugby players who have sustained catastrophic head, neck or spinal cord injuries while on the field.
BrightRock Player Awards Winners
The Players’ Player of the Year (the flagship award of the evening for the player selected as the best player of the year, as chosen by his peers)
Pieter-Steph du Toit
Nominees: Duane Vermeulen, Schalk Brits, Cheslin Kolbe
Defender of the Year
Pieter-Steph du Toit
Nominees: Franco Mostert, Lukhanyo Am, Damian de Allende
Forward Player of the Year
Pieter-Steph du Toit
Nominees: Tendai “Beast” Mtawarira, Trevor Nyakane, RG Snyman
Backline Player of the Year
Cheslin Kolbe
Nominees: George Whitehead, Rabz Maxwane, Herschel Jantjies
Best off the Bench
Herschel Jantjies
Nominees: Steven Kitshoff, Bongani Mbonambi, Selvyn Davids
The #LoveChange Award (For the most-improved player over the past year – a true change agent on his way up)
Herschel Jantjies
Nominees: Joseph Dweba, Tyrone Green, Kurt-Lee Arendse
BrightRock Fan's Choice Award
Rosko Specman (nominated charity - Be The Difference Foundation)
Nominees: Scarra Ntubeni (Newborns Trust), Chris Dry (Zanokhanyo Children’s Safety House), Rabz Maxwane (King William’s Town Youth Care Centre)
