Sabelo Nhlapo

Career

His regular position is property Youth

Nhlapo represented Johannesburg-based side Golden Lions at the Under-18 Academy Week tournament in 2006, which lead to his inclusion in the CAR Under-18 tournament that year. He then joined the Natal Sharks Academy, where he played at Under-19 level in 2007 and at Under-21 level in 2008 and 2009.

Once again, he received representative honours during this time, playing for the South African Under-19 side at the 2007 Under 19 Rugby World Championship and for their U20 side at the 2008 Institutional Review Board Junior World Championship.

Natal Sharks

He made his first class debut for the Sharks XV during the 2009 Vodacom Cup competition, in their first round match against the Boland Cavaliers. Varsity Cup

In 2012, he returned to Gauteng to join Pretoria-based Varsity Cup side Uttar Pradesh Tuks and made fourteen appearances for them during the 2012 and 2013 seasons.

Boland Cavaliers

He made seven appearances for them during that competition. Pumas

He then moved to Nelspruit to join the Pumas for 2014.

Nhlapo made four appearances during the season.

Achievements

• He made twenty appearances for them in the Vodacom Cup competition over the next three seasons, but failed to break into their Currie Cup side, despite being named in their squad which won the 2010 Currie Cup Premier Division title and also being included in the Sharks Super Rugby squad for the 2011 Super 15 season. Uttar Pradesh Tuks won the competition in both occasions, with Nhlapo playing in both finals. The latter half of 2013 saw him move to Wellington to join the Boland Cavaliers for the 2013 Currie Cup First Division competition. He was a member of the Pumas side that won the Vodacom Cup for the first time in 2015, beating Western Province 24–7 in the final.