All the statistics from the Boks' 35-17 victory in the opening round of the Castle Lager Rugby Championship against Australia in Johannesburg on Saturday.
South Africa’s seven franchises will battle it out for Vodacom Super Rugby Unlocked and Currie Cup honours when the dome...
Tribute has been paid to Mr Monde Temba Tabata, a member of the SA Rugby Executive Council (Exco), who has died after se...
SA Rugby has welcomed the confirmation that the Castle Lager Rugby Championship would be held in 2020, however Jurie Rou...
Veteran Springbok and Toyota Cheetahs scrumhalf, Ruan Pienaar, who represented Ulster 141 times, believes it is a massiv...
SA Rugby President Mr Mark Alexander paid tribute to former Boland and SARU lock Noel Klaasen, who passed away from natu...
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The Springboks confirmed a touring squad of 36 players for their Castle Lager Rugby Championship matches against New Zealand and Argentina in the next three weeks.
The Cell C Sharks got back on track in the Currie Cup – sponsored by DirectAxis Financial Services – as they registered their first win of the season, beating DHL Western Province 32-27 in Durban on Saturday.
SA Rugby’s Director of Rugby, Rassie Erasmus, lauded a number of players for superb individual performances in the Springboks’ 35-17 win over Australia in Johannesburg, but said the team will have to improve as they build towards the Rugby World Cup.
The Springboks beat Australia by 35-17 in front of 51206 fans at an electric Emirates Airline Park, with Herschel Jantjies scoring twice on debut as they bagged a full-house of five log points in their Castle Lager Rugby Championship opener on Saturday.
Springbok captain Eben Etzebeth shrugged off any suggestion of a second string line-up for Saturday’s Castle Lager Rugby Championship match against Australia at Emirates Airline Park when he gave his captain’s media conference on Friday.
The Vodacom Blue Bulls continued to show that they could be the team to beat in this year’s SA Rugby U21 Championship as they powered their way to a fifth successive victory this past weekend to remain the only unbeaten team in the competition.
While the overall plan is on building towards to Rugby World Cup in Japan, the Springboks will not get ahead of themselves when they face New Zealand on Saturday in their much-anticipated second round fixture of the Castle Lager Rugby Championship in Wellington.
Three capped Women’s World Cup players and 15 others who ran out for the Springbok Women last year have been named in national women’s coach Stanley Raubenheimer’s squad leading up to the 2021 Women’s Rugby World Cup Qualifiers in Johannesburg.
Experienced No 8 Duane Vermeulen will lead the Springboks against the All Blacks on Saturday, when the two traditional rivals clash in Wellington in the second round of the shortened 2019 Castle Lager Rugby Championship.
24 July, 2019 marks exactly one year until Tokyo 2020 where rugby sevens is set to make its second appearance at an Olympic Games after its debut at Rio 2016.
The Springboks confirmed a touring squad of 36 players for their Castle Lager Rugby Championship matches against New Zealand and Argentina in the next three weeks.
The Vodacom Blue Bulls continued to show that they could be the team to beat in this year’s SA Rugby U21 Championship as they powered their way to a fifth successive victory this past weekend to remain the only unbeaten team in the competition.
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Two trophies up for grabs when local rugby season resumesSouth Africa’s seven franchises will battle it out for Vodacom Super Rugby Unlocked and Currie Cup honours when the domestic season resumes next month, after a complete re-working of fixtures and competition structures has been forced by the six-month interruption.
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RIP Mr Monde Tabata (1960-2020)Tribute has been paid to Mr Monde Temba Tabata, a member of the SA Rugby Executive Council (Exco), who has died after several months fighting the effects of the COVID-19 virus.
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Castle Lager Rugby Championship announcement welcomed by SA RugbySA Rugby has welcomed the confirmation that the Castle Lager Rugby Championship would be held in 2020, however Jurie Roux (SA Rugby CEO) cautioned that the participation of defending champions, South Africa, still had to be confirmed.
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Pienaar: Guinness PRO14 final a massive achievement for UlsterVeteran Springbok and Toyota Cheetahs scrumhalf, Ruan Pienaar, who represented Ulster 141 times, believes it is a massive achievement for the team to contest the Guinness PRO14 final on Saturday against defending champions Leinster in Dublin.
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RIP Noel Klaasen (1954 to 2020)SA Rugby President Mr Mark Alexander paid tribute to former Boland and SARU lock Noel Klaasen, who passed away from natural causes over the weekend. He was 66 years old.