Compiled by Dylan Bettencourt
- Moyo finished matric in 2024 and will become the fourth-youngest Springbok after playing only one senior match for the Sharks.
- Cobus Reinach says the flyhalf understands the game, can handle himself and will have experienced players around him in Durban.
Vusi Moyo will start for the Springboks just two months after playing his first senior match for the Sharks.
The 20-year-old flyhalf will make his Test debut against Wales in Durban on Saturday.
Moyo only finished matric in 2024.
He helped the Junior Springboks win the Junior World Championship in 2025 before making his Sharks debut in May.
A hip injury had kept him out for five months and delayed his first senior appearance.
After returning, he helped the Junior Boks win the Under-20 Rugby Championship.
A few weeks later, he was called into the Springbok squad.
“I was injured for the first five months of the year, so it was very special to get my first cap for the Sharks,” Moyo said, the Citizen reported.
“Then, straight after that, a few weeks later, I got named in the Springbok squad.”
Moyo will become the fourth-youngest Springbok in history at 20 years and 27 days.
Only Frans Steyn, Canan Moodie and Pat Lambie were younger when they made their Bok debuts.
But all three had played more senior rugby before becoming Springboks.
Moyo has played only one senior match.
He said his heart skipped a beat when coach Rassie Erasmus announced the team.
“My family is proud of me and I’m just out here to make my family and the people who support me proud,” he said.
His mother will not be at the match because Moyo’s sister is playing in her first hockey tournament.
Moyo said his mother had told him she would be there in spirit.
He will play alongside experienced scrumhalf Cobus Reinach.
Reinach said Moyo does not need anyone to protect him.
“He can look after himself. He might be a young man, but he’s got soft hands and he knows the game very well,” Reinach said.
Moyo is one of four players making their Springbok debuts against Wales.
Ruben van Heerden, Carlu Sadie and Jaco Williams will also play their first Tests.
Pictured above: Young flyhalf Vusi Moyo will make his Springbok debut against Wales in Durban.
Image source: Vusi Moyo/Instagram
