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The primary aim of BokSmart is to provide rugby coaches, referees, players, and administrators with the correct knowledge, skills, and Leadership abilitites to ensure that safety and best practice principles are incorporated into all aspects of contact rugby in South Africa...
To better understand rugby injuries in South Africa, it is crucial that one aligns injury prevention, identification, treatment, reporting and monitoring strategies as close as practically possible to the internationally accepted standards and guidelines...
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Springbok Sevens attend latest BokSmart course
- 25 March, 2012

Members of the Springbok Sevens team – management and players – recently completed the latest BokSmart course with updated content and material at their training base in Stellenbosch.

SARU pays tribute to the late Tubby Teubes
- 20 March, 2012

The South African Rugby Union has paid tribute to the late Tubby Teubus who passed away on Tuesday in Cape Town.

BokSmart endorsed by WCED
- 9 March, 2012

The South African Rugby Union’s (SARU) National Rugby Safety Programme, BokSmart, has been endorsed by the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) to make rugby safer in schools.

IRB reaffirms to keeping rugby clean
- 6 March, 2012

The International Rugby Board has underscored its continued commitment to the fight against doping in Rugby by undertaking a record programme of testing and education during 2011.

SARU welcomes IRB Concussion Management Education website
- 9 February, 2012

The South African Rugby Union has welcomed the launch of a Concussion Management Education Website by the International Rugby Board (IRB).

IRB launches Concussion Management Education Website
- 7 February, 2012

The International Rugby Board has stepped up its policy of providing the best possible concussion education with the launch of a new interactive website.

Matfield joins Bulls coaches in getting BokSmart
- 1 February, 2012

Former Springbok captain Victor Matfield this week joined 17 other coaches from the Blue Bulls in becoming certified on the BokSmart national rugby safety programme.

Referees scrum down for the Laws
- 31 January, 2012

South Africa’s top referees scrummed against each other and were given master classes from top coaches as part of a recently completed four-day training camp prior to the start of the 2012 rugby season.

Former Bok Naas Botha now BokSmart certified
- 23 November, 2011

Former Springbok captain and flyhalf Naas Botha recently became one of the 30,000 coaches and referees to have qualified through a BokSmart rugby safety workshop.

SARU and Pearson launch official rugby guide for kids
- 31 August, 2011

“Play Rugby” (or “Speel Rugby” in Afrikaans) is a brand new book aimed at children to teach them the joys of playing rugby safely from a young age.

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