Jake White goes under the knife
A World Cup-winning Springbok coach underwent surgery on Tuesday.
Jake White, who coached South Africa to victory in the 2007 World Cup and the 2004 Tri-Nations, has undergone hip replacement surgery.
White, from his hospital bed, said he hopes to be back home in a couple of days.
White, who also coached South Africa to victory in the Under-21 World Cup in 2002, has had a storied and very successful career.
He was most recently associated with Selborne College in the Eastern Cape.
Apart from his four-year stint (2004 to 2007) with the Boks, he also coached the Brumbies, Sharks, Tonga (technical advisor), Montpellier, Verblitz (in Japan) and the Bulls, whom he took to three United Rugby Championship Finals in four years.
On 24 October 2011, he was inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame.
