Victor Matfield
Matfield in 2012, photo by Snap2Art/www.bigstockphoto.com
Place of Birth: Pietersburg, South Africa
Date of Birth: 11 May, 1977
Ethnicity: English, possibly Afrikaner
Victor Matfield is a South African rugby union player. He was the captain of the Springboks, the South African national rugby team.
He is the son of Hettie and Fai Matfield. He is married to Monja Bekker, with whom he has three children. His first language is Afrikaans.
There is an Internet rumour that Victor’s grandmother was Māori. Victor has said that this is not accurate.
I checked Victor’s biography “Victor: My Journey” and even though there are no infos about his family, he said Afrikaans is his first language. This imply that he has Afrikaner ancestry in addition to English/British.
His paternal great-grandparents may be named Victor Matfield and Maria Elizabeth Oosthuizen: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Matfield-2
@comrade
What do you make about the Maori rumour?