This is not thye first time that this rumour comes out. Recently I read I think in the Midol or Rugby Hebdo that he would come next season.
Apparently White and Smit have reopened the discussion with the SARU about the selection policy, so who knows they may change their mind as they have already done a couple of times. I guess that if the global season is eventually achieved by the IRB this would be even easy although I guess that then Super14, NPC and Currie Cup would suffer of the absence of the top SH players.