How the ‘Beast’ became a Boks star

SPRINGBOK prop Tendai ‘Beast’ Mtawarira single-handedly destroyed the British and Irish Lions scrum on Saturday.

But who is the cult hero of South African rugby?

He’s hard to miss, standing six feet two inches tall and, as Phil Vickery of the British and Irish Lions now knows, weighs in at 17 stone 8 pounds.