Full name | Sonwabo Qengeba Majola | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 20 March 1993 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Uitenhage, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 69 kg (152 lb; 10 st 12 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Muir College, Uitenhage | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sonwabo Qengeba Majola (born 20 March 1993 in Uitenhage) is a South African rugby union player for the Eastern Province Elephants in the Currie Cup and in the Rugby Challenge.[1] His regular position is scrum-half, but also played as a fly-half at school level.
After playing for the Muir College first team in 2011[2] and 2012,[3] Majola also represented the NMMU Young Guns in the Varsity Young Guns competition in 2013.[4]
In 2012, he helped the Eastern Province U19 side to the Under-19 Provincial Championship Division B final, starting eight matches in the competition. The following year, he went one better by winning the Under-21 Provincial Championship Division B competition with the Eastern Province U21 team, narrowly losing out on promotion to Division A.
After playing a pre-season trial match for the Southern Kings against the Stormers,[5] he was included in the senior side for the 2014 Vodacom Cup competition.[6] He made his first class debut on 15 March 2014 in their match against the Border Bulldogs in Grahamstown, coming on as a second-half substitute and scoring a try 11 minutes after coming on.[7] He also made substitute appearances against Western Province[8] and the Free State XV in Cradock.[9]