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The Vodacom Bulls have announced that one of SA rugby’s most exciting outside backs has put pen to paper on a deal with the Pretoria outfit from next season. Boeta Chamberlain will make Loftus Versfeld his new stomping ground from 2024-25, following five years with the Sharks in Durban. ALSO: Saffa boss extends stay at […]

Johann van Graan has re-committed his future to English Premiership outfit Bath after the head of rugby put pen to paper on a contract extension. Van Graan, who joined the club from Munster in 2022 and guided the team to Champions Cup qualification in his first season, has signed a new contract until the end

Coach Bafana Nhleko said the Junior Springboks have plenty to work on after sharing the spoils with New Zealand in their U20 Rugby Championship opener on Thursday. The traditional rivals played out an exciting 13-13 draw in very wet and windy conditions at the Sunshine Coast Stadium in Bokarina, Queensland, with a heavy downpour before

Props Rabah Slimani and Giorgi Beria expect a bruising contest up front when Clermont locks horns with the Springbok-powered Sharks side in the Challenge Cup on Saturday. The Sharks will make history when they face the three-time winners at London’s Twickenham Stoop, as the first South African team to feature in the last-four of the

World Cup-winning Springbok head coach Rassie Erasmus received an honorary doctorate from the North-West University (NWU) on Thursday. The NWU Council approved the decision during their ordinary meeting on 16 November 2023. The request for the awarding of the degree Philosophiae Doctor (Honoris Causa), in the discipline Coaching Science, was made by the NWU’s Faculty

South African franchises must launch a full-on assault against Europe’s top clubs next season, writes SIMON BORCHARDT. The Champions Cup is billed as ‘The One To Win’ but that certainly wasn’t the case for French Top 14 club Lyon, South Africa’s Bulls and English Premiership club the Exeter Chiefs this season. Lyon, fighting a relegation

Led by the fearless Bob Skinstad and featuring Cape royalty in Breyton Paulse and Percy Montgomery, the DHL Stormers put the Vodacom Bulls to the sword at Loftus Versfeld in the 1999 Super Rugby season. The Bulls won the Currie Cup in 1998 against DHL Western Province and much was expected of the men from

A late Frank Vaenuku try for New Zealand denied the Junior Springboks victory in the opening match of the inaugural U20 Rugby Championship in Queensland on Thursday. The right winger soared over the whitewash in the 78th minute to mark the final score 13-13 with the third touchdown of the first-round match at the Sunshine

The SA Cup will kick into a higher gear this week when the two top teams on the table, Griquas and the Pumas, battle it out for top spot in Kimberley on Friday afternoon. With both teams tied at the summit of the standings, each boasting 30 points, this match could give one of the

Springbok and Sharks loosehead prop Ox Nche says there is “nothing more satisfying” than watching a rival pop out of a scrum while asserting his dominance in the set piece. Nche was called “the most destructive loosehead in the world” after his influential performance in the Boks’ last-gasp Rugby World Cup semi-final victory over England