Jerome "Trompie" Pretorius (born 22 March 1988) is a South African

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player who last played for the in the

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and in the Rugby Challenge. Pretorius regularly plays as a

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and has previously represented the , and . In 2013, Pretorius was included in a South Africa President's XV team that played in the 2013 IRB Tbilisi Cup and won the tournament after winning all three matches. Pretorius was a member of the Pumas side that won the

Vodacom Cup The Vodacom Cup was an annual rugby union competition in South Africa. Annual Vodacom Cup competitions were played between its inaugural season in 1998 and 2015 and was contested between February and May each year. The Vodacom Cup was the succes ...

for the first time in

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, beating 24–7 in the final. Pretorius made nine appearances during the season, scoring one try.

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