About Ronnie Hill
Lived 1934 – 2011 (aged 76–77). Ronnie Hill was a rugby union player.
Ronald Andrew Hill (20 December 1934 – 6 November 2011) was a South African international rugby union player.
Hill was born in Johannesburg but raised in Bulawayo from the age of three. He attended Technical High School.
A hooker, Hill played his rugby for Bulawayo-based club Old Miltonians and Rhodesia. He won Springboks selection on the 1960–61 tour of Europe as an understudy to Abie Malan, whose knee injury gave Hill a Test debut against Wales at Cardiff Arms Park, the first of seven Springboks caps.
Hill's daughter Debbie represented Zimbabwe in diving at the 1980 Olympic Games.
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Who was Ronnie Hill?
rugby union player (1934-2011)
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Ronnie Hill was born in 1934.
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Ronnie Hill died in 2011.
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Ronnie Hill was a rugby union player.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Ronnie Hill. https://biography.guide/ronnie-hill/
MLA: "Ronnie Hill." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/ronnie-hill/.
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