Jan de Koning Racist of the Year

Heading off his co-star of the Sun City production "Throwback to the Apartheid Era", Piers North, with his hostile reactions to comments regarding the problems, notably racism, within South African rugby and its administration, as well as any suggestion that more should be done to foster rugby in the Pacific Islands. Popped up on the SARFU board like a wooden-headed dummy with all the personality of the same material, assuming the last-mentioned nickname, translating to "Redneck" from Afrikaans, intent upon destroying things there and imposing the same state of apartheid he has worked tirelessly to support on the Planet Rugby forum, before being run out of town (together with Peter FitzSimons and his shadow Karlis Salna) by the more liberal-minded majority on that particular board, retreating at great haste to his familiar environment, and balling his eyes out over the retaliation - in the astonishment of one accustomed to benefiting from double standards.