The Cell C Sharks and DHL Stormers will take centre stage in the Vodacom United Rugby Championship this weekend as they battle it out in the only match on Saturday in a postponed fixture from the opening round of the competition.
The Springboks will kick off a bumper 2023 season against Australia in Pretoria in July in the opening round of the shortened Castle Lager Rugby Championship and will face Argentina in Johannesburg in their final match on home soil before the build-up to their Rugby World Cup defence starts.
Former Springbok Stefan Terblanche has praised the South African teams for overcoming the travel and weather challenges they’ve faced up north and to still keep pushing for glory in the Vodacom United Rugby Championship and Heineken Champions Cup.
SA Rugby has announced the exciting competition structure for the 2023 rugby season, which will see an expansion of the Currie Cup Premier Division, the addition of the Mzanzi Challenge comprising five international teams, as well as the plenty of provincial women’s and age-group rugby.
Springbok Sevens coach Sandile Ngcobo heaped praise on his players after the Blitzboks made it into the last four in Australia, where they will face Fiji in the semi-finals of the HSBC Sydney Sevens on Sunday.
The Springbok Sevens teams started their campaign in Sydney on a good note on Friday, but they are always looking for the perfect performance and will keep striving towards that.
In the world of the jet-setting modern rugby team crisscrossing the Equator for the Vodacom United Rugby Championship, Heineken Champions Cup and international duty, selecting the perfect roommates is almost as important as selecting the match-day team.
The Cell C Sharks and DHL Stormers are looking back at an historic first December of Vodacom United Rugby Championship action in South Africa as a resounding success, both on the field and off it.
With the Heineken Champions Cup and EPCR Challenge Cup pool rounds concluded, the five South African franchises now know exactly who they will face in their playoff matches in 10 weeks’ time in the European showpieces.
The Springbok Women's Sevens squad assembled in Stellenbosch on Monday for their first training block in preparation for World Rugby's Challenger Series April this year.