The Cell C Sharks team named to take on the Emirates Lions in Johannesburg in this weekend’s return leg Vodacom United Rugby Championship has been bolstered by the return of a number of players.
The stakes will be sky-high for all four South African teams this weekend as a full round of Vodacom United Rugby Championship action returns and sides turn their attention on the race to the playoffs, with the Grand Final happening in exactly 100 days.
Careers end. Records are broken. Trophies gather dust. Teammates go their own way. And then all you are left with is the memories. Great memories of a full career. But if you grew up in the Western Cape, there is one memory you carry with you beyond just your career, and when it started and ended. You’ve had it with you since you were a boy running around barefoot with a rugby ball and dreaming the biggest dreams. North versus South. By Jean de Villiers, former DHL Stormers and Springbok captain.
As she sat in the iconic Salle des Étoiles in Monaco in November last year and looked around at the who's who of the rugby world, Springbok Women wing Nomawethu Mabenge felt a massive surge of pride and satisfaction.
Springbok speedster Cheslin Kolbe has revealed that he is planning on staying at French outfit Toulon until the end of his contract, despite reports linking him with a move to Japan.
The Springbok Women's Sevens squad are motivated to make 2023 a defining season as they aim to get rewarded for their current efforts at their training camp in Stellenbosch.
World Rugby’s new laws to try and speed up the game will be introduced in Super Rugby for the 2023 season and if successful could be implemented in the Rugby World Cup in France later this year.
The Springboks will line up against the New Zealand at Twickenham in England for only the second time ever when they clash in a Rugby World Cup warm-up fixture on Friday, 25 August 2023 – two weeks before the international extravaganza kicks off in France, where South Africa will attempt to defend their crown as world champions.
Bulls and Springbok wing Sbu Nkosi has returned to rugby after a period on the sidelines that included going AWOL for three weeks as he battled mental health issues.
John Dobson’s DHL Stormers players will run out to a Pretoria crowd willing them to lose as the age-old north versus south rivalry writes another 80 minutes of its epic history. And Dobson wants all of this. He wants exactly what he grew up watching and loving about the most intense rivalry in South African rugby. He wants a battle.