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I have looked at the four South African rugby teams currently playing in the SuperRugby tournament against Argentine, Australian, New Zealand and Japanese sides. The players (typically aged between 20 and 35) come from several language groups; based on surnames, I have tried to identify Afrikaans-speaking players. Those of them with merged, spliced, hyphenated etc names are listed below. In a second list, I've put the 'ordinary', 'normal' names of the other (probable) Afrikaners in the teams.

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Cornal (Cornelius + Albert?)
Hanro (Hans or Hannes + Robert or Rudolf?)
Carlu (Carl + Louis?)
Jan-Henning
Curwin (Curtis + Edwin?)
Jean-Luc
Ruan (Rudolf + Andries or Andre?)
Hyron (perhaps a modification of Myron?)
Wilco (Willem + Cornelius?)
Marno (Martin or Marthinus + ?; or Marnus = Hermanus with o ending instead of u?)
Jean-Luc

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Warrick (possibly English-speaking: I've seen this version of Warwick on a South African English speaker)
Johnny
Burger (surname, often used as a fn)
Rosko (spelling variation of Roscoe)
Manie (nn for Hermanus)
Ivan
Paul (pronounced Pole)
Marco
Schalk
Andries
Harold (maybe English)
Ross (maybe English)
Cyle (pronounced like Kyle)
Marvin
Stefan (pronounced STEEus-fun)
Johannes
Reinhard
Marnus (nn for Hermanus)
Andre
Louis
Dan x 2 (perhaps short for Daniel, perhaps from the biblical Dan)
Jaques
Ruben
Coenie (nn for Coenraad = Conrad)
Juan (often seen as an alternative to the French Jean; often pronounced the same)
Thomas
Robert
Kobus (short form of or nn for Jakobus)
Damian x 2
Dillyn (sounds like Dylan)
Josh (presumably Joshua)
Herschel
Johan
Jaco (short form of Jacobus)
Cobus - like Kobus
Eben
Steven
Corne (pronounced koR NAY)
Frans
Ernst