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My Take
Referees almost never get the spotlight, which is exactly why this one earns my respect. Being chosen to officiate the rugby sevens final at the 2016 Rio Olympics is an extraordinary vote of confidence in your judgment and impartiality, and pairing that with a World Rugby Referee Award the same year leaves little doubt about the level. A Johannesburg native who moved from playing to the whistle, with a Witwatersrand education behind him, clearly brought both feel for the game and intellectual rigor to the role. A referee can elevate or strangle a match, and doing that job at the very summit takes a steel I genuinely admire.
Overview
Fhatuwani 'Rasta' Rasivhenge (born in Johannesburg on 3 January 1986) is a South African rugby union referee who is a member of the South African Rugby Union (SARU) Premier Panel. He was appointed to referee the final of the rugby sevens tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Rasta Rasivhenge
- Name (Japanese)
- ラスタ・ラシベンゲ
- Reading
- らすた・らしべんげ
- Born
- January 3, 1986 (age 40)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Capricorn / Tiger
- Origin
- Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- rugby union player / rugby union match official
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- University of the Witwatersrand
Awards & achievements
- 2016 World Rugby Referee Award
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Rugby union player — see all → · More people from South Africa →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.