Meanwhile, a domestic competition involving the four SA Super Rugby sides as well as the Cheetahs, Griquas and Pumas is in the pipeline, but no dates have been set ...
Reports this weekend have suggested the Springboks will ditch this year’s Rugby Championship in favour of playing in a Europe-based Eight Nations tournament.
They’ve been Springbok teammates and they’ve opposed each other at Super Rugby level, but now Elton Jantjies and Cornal Hendricks will go head to head in the boxing ...
Ruan Pienaar has lashed out at South African rugby authorities for not playing open cards with this country’s players.
Former Springbok captain Warren Whiteley hasn’t played rugby since early last year following an umpteenth knee injury and he has since turned his focus to coaching ...
Former Springbok captain Warren Whiteley is likely to go under the knife again at the end of this year to give himself one more shot at possibly playing rugby again. ...
The question, with the country moving down to level two of the lockdown at the weekend, is whether SA Rugby will still be required to play inside a safe bio-bubble ...
Is playing inside a “bio-bubble” still the safest and most affordable option for rugby to return to action now that the country has moved to level two of the nationwide ...
That seems to be the feeling of the country’s professional rugby players about returning to full-contact training and on-field action.
No fears and no concerns. That seems to be the feeling of the country’s professional rugby players about returning to full contact training and on-field action. ...
Duane Vermeulen has played 54 Tests for South Africa and impressed the new director of rugby at the Bulls, Jake White.
Seasoned Springbok loose-forward Duane Vermeulen will captain the Bulls later this year when rugby in South Africa resumes in a ’bio-bubble’.
The government has given the go-ahead for SA Rugby to put on matches in a safe, controlled “bio-bubble” environment; possibly ruling out the option of teams travelling ...
Rugby writer Jacques van der Westhuyzen tells you here everything you need to know about rugby’s return-to-play
New Bulls director of rugby Jake White believes his model could add greater value to South African rugby than lumping all eight teams into one competition.
Jacques van der Westhuyzen profiles the men from Mzansi, and his five favourites, who’ll be hoping to be handed the Wanamaker Trophy on Sunday.
He’s walked the high streets of Paris, experienced the glitz and glamour of Tokyo, and captured the beauty of southern France, but for Frans Steyn, Bloemfontein ...
Valke players and staff were told six days ago that they will not be paid their July salaries.
The Springboks’ World Cup winning performance in Japan last year has inspired experienced loose-forward Nizaam Carr to work harder and believe that anything is possible. ...
If the Springboks take part in a delayed Rugby Championship competition in New Zealand later this year they will be allowed to include all of their overseas-based ...
SA Rugby’s staging of an eight-team Currie Cup-like competition in a bio-safe environment would cost anything between R30 million and R65 million.
Sport Employees Unite (SEU), an organisation that represents the employees of the Valke Rugby Company, has slammed the non-payment of the salaries of its members. ...
Ruan Dreyer has unfinished business in South Africa. It is the reason he decided to return to Joburg and the Lions after only a few months playing in England.
Who, you ask, is Dr Roberts? He’s the man who looked after the Springbok players as team doctor between 2008 and 2015 and served under coaches Pieter de Villiers ...
Jannie du Plessis may be 38 but he said he felt like a young child again this week.