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Jonathan Adendorf

South African rugby union footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ6272404 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jonathan Wallis 'Kraai' Adendorf (born 23 August 1985) is a South African rugby union player for Griquas in the Currie Cup and in the Rugby Challenge. His regular playing position is flanker. Adendorf previously played for the Pumas. He has also played for Maties in the Varsity Cup.

External links

"SA Rugby Player Profile – Jonathan Adendorf". South African Rugby Union. Retrieved 30 May 2016.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Jonathan Adendorf” is south African rugby union footballer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Jonathan, Adendorf and South, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1985-08-23. For this dossier, Jonathan, Adendorf and South is the immediate research focus.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6272404. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1985 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jonathan Adendorf” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.