| Full name | Sakoyisa Makata | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1998-09-10)10 September 1998 (age 26) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 103 kg (227 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Stirling High School,East London | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sakoyisa Makata (born(1998-09-10)10 September 1998) is a South Africanrugby sevens player for theSouth Africa national team, where his regular position is a forward.
Makata attendedStirling High School inEast London, where he played rugby for the school's first team, also representing Border at the Under-18Craven Week in 2016.[1] He joined the SA Rugby Sevens Academy in 2017 and also played forWestern Province U19 in the2017 Under-19 Provincial Championship[2] and forWestern Province U21 in the2018 Under-21 Provincial Championship.[3]
After playing for the Sevens Academy side from 2017 to 2019, Makata was also included in theSouth Africa national sevens squad prior to the2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series.[4] In February 2019, He was named in the Blitzboks squad for theLas Vegas Sevens,[1] and he made his debut in their opening match in that tournament, a 26–0 victory overJapan.[5]
Makata was part of the South African team that won their secondCommonwealth Games gold medal inBirmingham in 2022.[6][7][8][9]
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