Renier Grobler

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Renier Niccolaas Grobler (14 November 1946 – 26 May 1971) was a South African rugby player who played on the wing. He was born in Luanshya, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) and went to Sundra High School near Delmas, South Africa. In 1969 he played for Northern Transvaal and quickly earned a Springboks call-up. He scored a try on his debut for Northern Transvaal against the touring Wallabies and also scored in the 1969 Currie Cup final. He joined the Springboks for their 1969–70 tour of Britain and Ireland but did not play in any tests because of a fractured thumb.

Grobler served as a corporal in the South African Air Force. He died on 26 May 1971, aged 24, when three SAAF aircraft crashed into Devil's Peak in Cape Town during a practice run for Republic Day celebrations, one of the worst peacetime air disasters in South Africa.