The 23-year-old Boland player has been identified by Springbok coach Jake White in a group of eight black players he wants to develop for the next World Cup in 2007. No surprise there after Nokwe’s sprint tests this year had revealed that he was one of the speediest players in South Africa.

A time of 4.42 seconds over 40m puts Nokwe alongside Western Province flyer Tonderai Chavhanga – the two are the fastest wings in South Africa. Unfortunately Nokwe, due to circumstances, was not very quick getting to and from training. Until Wednesday that is.

Thanks to White’s initiative in setting up the High Performance Squad, a joint venture aimed at fast-tracking 20 talented young black players into the top flight by giving them the right training programmes and supervision, Nokwe will now be able to travel in style.

On Wednesday Nokwe, who passed his driver’s test recently, drove his new car from the small Khayelitsha home he shares with his aunt, granny and five other family members to training at Wellington.

Until he received the keys to his new Toyota Tazz, Nokwe had had to spend two hours catching taxis and buses to get from Khayelitsha to Wellington and to gym sessions in Paarl. And that was just one way.

This entailed a taxi ride to Site C before he had to switch taxis to make another trip to Bellville station. From Bellville it was a one-hour train ride to Paarl where the final leg of his journey – a third taxi trip – took him to Wellington.

Often he had to stay over in Wellington at the Jackie Abrahams House for young players living afar, and was unable to return home to his family.

suck it up byatch.

show us your titties.

Not really happy about it but there you go,.

Actually, I’m not sorry.

Well done on Superbru. Not quite the winner, but a good performance for sure. Much like WP.

Howzit HG, not concerned about the size of your backline there?