Sako Makata

Sakoyisa Makata (born September 10, 1998) is a South African rugby sevens player for the South Africa national team, where his regular position is a forward.

Biography
Makata attended Stirling High School in East London, where he played rugby for the school's first team, also representing Border at the Under-18 Craven Week in 2016. He joined the SA Rugby Sevens Academy in 2017 and also played for in the 2017 Under-19 Provincial Championship and for  in the 2018 Under-21 Provincial Championship.

After playing for the Sevens Academy side from 2017 to 2019, Makata was also included in the South Africa national sevens squad prior to the 2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series. In February 2019, He was named in the Blitzboks squad for the Las Vegas Sevens, and he made his debut in their opening match in that tournament, a 26–0 victory over Japan.

Makata was part of the South African team that won their second Commonwealth Games gold medal in Birmingham in 2022.