Dion Taljard (born 7 January 1970) is a South African former

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er. He played twenty-five

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matches for

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between 1993 and 2000. In September 2017, he was sentenced to 18 years in jail, after being convicted on 19 counts of rape, two of indecent assault and one of witness intimidation.

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