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It’s official – tickets go on public sale at 09h00 on Wednesday 5 October for South Africa’s biggest, best and most FOMO...
The Springboks and SA Rugby will have a new technical apparel provider in 2023. Agreement has been reached with Nike to ...
Mr Mark Alexander, President of SA Rugby, paid tribute to the massive role played by Mr Harold Wilson – who passed away ...
A freak neck injury during rugby practice changed Yusuf Price’s life in more ways than one in a remarkable journey that ...
SA Rugby is aware that unsubstantiated allegations of failed tests for recreational drugs by Springbok players are circu...
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Tafel Lager Griquas head coach Scott Mathie was one of the happiest people in Kimberley this week, finally getting his troops together for non-contact training following the easing of COVID-19 lockdown regulations.
Success in Australasia in 2013 and 2017, coupled with the coaching continuity and experience of Warren Gatland, means next year’s tour of the British & Irish Lions to South Africa will be “massive” and a proper challenge for the Springboks.
Toyota Cheetahs coach Hawies Fourie said on Friday his team was in high spirits after their first week of non-contact training following four months of lockdown, and that their current focus is on skills and weight training.
In the lead-up to the 40th anniversary of the Chris Burger Petro Jackson Players’ Fund on 9 September, key figures will be sharing personal accounts and provide insight into the passionate, unwavering and life-saving work of the fund, also known as Rugby’s Caring Hands.
Springbok captain Siya Kolisi and fellow RWC winner Steven Kitshoff are back in training with the DHL Stormers after the eight professional rugby teams in South Africa started with non-contact training this week following a long absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Just like high fives were replaced by elbow-bumps since South Africa’s eight franchises returned to non-contact training since the COVID-19 lockdown regulations were eased, there were some notable changes when the Vodacom Bulls returned to Loftus Versfeld last week.
The Cape Town leg of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series – provisionally scheduled for 4-6 December this year – has been cancelled due to the ongoing and dynamic global nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, World Rugby announced on Wednesday.
Old and new faces (some of them masked), hand santizer, ball cleaning, and lots of running and skills work greeted our players as they returned to the training field last week - check out some pics from Pretoria, Durban, Bloem, Cape Town (by Gallo Images) and Joburg.
Springbok Women’s prop Babalwa Latsha on Saturday topped the list of finalists in the 15th edition of the annual Momentum gsport Awards featuring in the Momentum Athlete of the year, Woman of the Year and Global Woman in Sport categories.
Springbok Sevens coach Neil Powell believes his squad’s return to training will not only boost the Blitzbok players on a physical level, but will also give the players a mental boost as they prepare for their return to their base next week.
Tafel Lager Griquas head coach Scott Mathie was one of the happiest people in Kimberley this week, finally getting his troops together for non-contact training following the easing of COVID-19 lockdown regulations.
Just like high fives were replaced by elbow-bumps since South Africa’s eight franchises returned to non-contact training since the COVID-19 lockdown regulations were eased, there were some notable changes when the Vodacom Bulls returned to Loftus Versfeld last week.
HSBC Cape Town Sevens
It’s big, it’s bold and it’s back: Tickets going on saleIt’s official – tickets go on public sale at 09h00 on Wednesday 5 October for South Africa’s biggest, best and most FOMO-inducing party when the HSBC Cape Town Sevens returns in December, after a two-year COVID-enforced shutdown.
Partner News
Nike returns as technical apparel provider in 2023The Springboks and SA Rugby will have a new technical apparel provider in 2023. Agreement has been reached with Nike to succeed current partner ASICS, whose contract comes to an end at the end of 2022.
Obituary
RIP Harold Wilson (1928-2022)Mr Mark Alexander, President of SA Rugby, paid tribute to the massive role played by Mr Harold Wilson – who passed away in the early hours of Tuesday morning at the age of 94 – in ensuring unity between South Africa’s different rugby bodies more than 30 years ago, which allowed the Springboks to return to the international stage in the 1990s.
Inspiration
From paralysed teenager to master of movementA freak neck injury during rugby practice changed Yusuf Price’s life in more ways than one in a remarkable journey that saw him go from being a paralysed teenager to a master of movement.
News
SA Rugby statementSA Rugby is aware that unsubstantiated allegations of failed tests for recreational drugs by Springbok players are circulating among members of the media. Disappointingly, these allegations have already appeared online despite the absence of any evidence to support them.
