Clive van Ryneveld, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Clive van Ryneveld

South African cricketer and rugby union player

Date of Birth: 19-Mar-1928

Place of Birth: Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Date of Death: 29-Jan-2018

Profession: politician, cricketer, rugby union player

Nationality: United Kingdom, South Africa

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Clive van Ryneveld

  • Clive Berrangè van Ryneveld (19 March 1928 – 29 January 2018) was a South African cricketer who played in nineteen Tests from 1951 to 1958..
  • He was the son of Reginald Clive Berrangè van Ryneveld (b.
  • 7 July 1891, d.
  • 1969) and Maria Alfreda Blanckenberg (b.1900, d.1994).
  • Before his death in 2018, he was the oldest living South African cricket captain. Van Ryneveld was also an international rugby union player.
  • He represented Oxford University RFC in The Varsity Match in 1947, 1948 and 1949 and won four caps as a centre for the England national rugby union team, playing in all four matches of the 1949 Five Nations Championship.
  • He scored three tries for England; one against Ireland and two against Scotland.
  • He never represented South Africa at rugby union. According to an obituary by Sport24 he "was one of South Africa’s greatest all-round sportsmen who represented and captained South Africa at cricket and represented England at rugby during his time as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, but he will be remembered equally for the role he played in trying to create a just society for all in South Africa".EW Swanton, the journalist and broadcaster, described him as “just about the best centre three quarter of my time in English football .
  • .
  • .
  • he had speed, balance, jink and body swerve, lovely hands, a remarkably cool brain; and though comparatively light was indomitable in defence.”Van Ryneveld had a brief career in South African politics.
  • In 1957 he was elected to Parliament as a member of the United Party, then the main opposition to the governing National Party which had introduced apartheid to South Africa.
  • Two years later, in 1959, Van Ryneveld and eleven other MPs broke from the United Party to form the Progressive Party, which adopted a much more aggressive opposition to apartheid.
  • The party's platform was ahead of its time, and in the 1961 general election all of the Progressive MPs except one, Helen Suzman, lost their seats.
  • Thereafter Van Ryneveld practised law.
  • In his last years he lived in Cape Town with his wife, Verity Anne Hunter (b.25 September 1931).
  • Their three children, Mark, Philip and Tessa, live in South Africa.
  • He published 20th Century All-rounder: Reminiscences and Reflections of Clive van Ryneveld in 2011.

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