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Grey College’s powerhouse rugby results

7 February, 2014 beet 46

A Wildeklawer match-up between the Grey College, the best South African boys only high school at rugby and Paarl Gymnasium, the best South African co-ed rugby school looks set to be made official next week. This effectively means that Grey will compete for a powerhouse grand slam for only the fourth time in their history, with 2010,2011 and 2012 being the three previous seasons in during which they took on all four fellow powerhouses namely Affies, HJS Paarl Boys High, Monument, Paarl Gymnasium and Paul Roos.   …

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Massive corruption in South African schools

7 February, 2014 beet 74

Thursday, 06 February 2014. A Corruption Watch report revealed there is evidence of large-scale corruption in schools.

According to the Corruption Watch organisation 12% of reports on all kinds of corruption since it started in 2012 related to alleged corruption in schools.

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SA u18 Sevens squad for African Youth Games

5 February, 2014 beet 8

The South African Rugby Union (SARU) will be fielding a South African U18 Sevens team. The team will compete in the African Youth Games on 22 – 31 May 2014 in Gabarone, Botswana.

A complete list of players identified for possible selection has been released on Thursday 06 February 2014.…

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Varsity Cup: Sharks AcadeNMMUy beats the Maties

4 February, 2014 beet 106
Home Away
NMMU 45 29 Maties
UCT Ikeys 24 47 NWU-Pukke
UP-Tuks 18 18 UJ
UFS Shimlas 31 15 Wits

Wow the UKZN has never been part the Varsity Cup proper but the NMMU team that beat Maties 45-29 yesterday was about as close to a KZN / Sharks region representative team as supporters from the region could hope to get.…

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New scoreboard for Maritzburg College’s famous Goldstones ground

2 February, 2014 beet 14

A brand new electronic cricket/rugby scoreboard on Goldstones is one of many sports related improvements that Maritzburg College has made in recent months. The scoreboard and the construction to support it was funded from donations from four of Maritzburg College Old Boy branches, namely Harding, Zululand, Midlands and Tugela, plus a contribution from the MCOB Association itself, totalling R100,000.…

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Noord-Suid Skolerugby Toernooi 2014

2 February, 2014 beet 84
DATE SCHOOL SCHOOL
Tue.01Apr Menlopark 98 00 Harrismith
Tue.01Apr Waterkloof 10 24 Paarl Gim
Fri.04Apr Waterkloof 94 00 Harrismith
Fri.04Apr Menlopark 22 18 Paarl Gim

 

As many of you who follow the Blog already know, former Springbok Pieter Rossouw with the sponsorship backing of Barloworld has been trying to get a new Noord-Suid tournament organised.

In an idea world if this tournament consisted of just the top six schools it would have seen the best that Pretoria has to offer namely Affies, Waterkloof and right here right now Garsfontein come up against the top feeder schools of the WPRU, which would definitely be Paarl Gim, Paarl Boys High and Paul Roos.…

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Port Natal Night Series: Port Natal beats Pinetown 22-0

2 February, 2014 beet 0

Port Natal got their Night Series campaign off to a good start with a convincing win 22-0 win against Pinetown. However as a result of the final whistle being blown early, they missed out on the opportunity to earn a 4-try bonus point which could prove costly later in the series.…

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Port Natal Night Series: DHS beats George Campbell 24-7

2 February, 2014 beet 6

It was predicted that this DHS versus George Campbell game would be the match of the opening evening of the Geldenhuys Broers Bedryk Night Series at Port Natal Hoerskool because it pitted two KZN top schools against each other and going by their results against shared opponents over the last few years everything pointed to them being fairly closely matched.…

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Port Natal Night Series: Glenwood Inv A beats Durban Dev 46-0

2 February, 2014 beet 1

Port Natal’s annual night series sponsored by tyre experts the Geldenhuys Broers Bedryf got off to a good start on Friday, 31 January. As usual a good crowd gathered and were treated to some much better than expected rugby for this time of the year. The A-team competition saw the Glenwood Invitation A team beating Durban Development 46-0.…

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Former Westville head coach now a Glenwood man

2 February, 2014 beet 32

UPDATED: Glenwood has issued a release stating that Mike Vowles will be their new 1st XV assistant coach. There is no mention of HP director, so apologies for stating this as it now appears to be incorrect. The email mentions that Mike is also qualified as a History, Life Orientation and Technology teacher but does not state whether he has been employed as a teacher.…

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Grey College vs Paarl Gymnasium 2014 rugby match hangs in the balance

1 February, 2014 beet 19

A final decision regarding Grey Bloem playing Paarl Gim at Wildeklawer Skouspel 2014 will be made any day now.

This is a game that every Grey and Gimmies student, parent and old boy wants to see happen but as always these kind of outcomes are not majority vote decisions and so it will be up to a few school officials in positions of authority to have final say on the matter.…