The Springboks’ victories over France, Italy and Ireland leave little doubt: Rassie Erasmus is the most innovative and effective coach in world rugby.

There are moments in sport when the narrative changes, not gradually, but with the force of a tide turning all at once.

HOW HE TURNED RESCUE INTO REINVENTION

South African rugby has never lacked passion, talent, or history. What it has lacked, at times painfully, is direction and leadership. Between 2015 and 2017, the Springboks drifted through one of the darkest chapters in their modern era; wounded by a period that nearly severed the connection between a