Dr EG Jansen of Boksburg will embark on an 11-day (27 Nov – 07 Dec) end of year rugby tour to England and France, which will include matches against at least three different teams. 34 stayers will make up the touring party and each player is guaranteed to play in two games. …
Affies’ return to and limited participation in the Beeldtrofee Macro schools competition did not last long. It was just a half a season long return in fact for the school that holds the record number of wins in the tournaments long and illustrious history.…
When it was brought to my attention, this one sort of reminded me of the late Gerbrand Grobler who in the latter part of his sports career would charge into the crease to deliver a ball for the Northern Transvaal cricket team during the summer months and then cross the Jukskei and turn out at fullback for the Transvaal rugby team during winter.…
RESULTS
Saturday, September 06 2014
Blue Bulls U19 37 – 30 Golden Lions U19
Free State U19 54 – 15 Leopards U19
Friday, September 05 2014
EP Kings U19 7 – 15 Sharks U19 …
An article in the Rapport newspaper (http://www.rapport.co.za/Nuus/Nuus/AfriForum-is-bereid-om-internasionaal-te-veg-20140906) mentions that a legal team of AfriForum will be acting on behalf of six under-16 players and their parents in a matter to oppose the racial quota system in South Africa. The complaint will be lodged with the IRB and will be taken up with the International Court of Arbitration in Sports (Lausanne, Switzerland), if the IRB is unwilling to prohibit the racial quota system in South African rugby. …
Maritzburg College is set to see the return of Francois Lubbe and Ryan Kyle, two old boys who have made names for themselves as high school rugby coaches at private schools in KwaZulu-Natal.…
The KwaZulu-Natal Under-18 Sevens team to take place in the National tournament in October has been release:…
Glenwood’s Photonote Toshiba Sevens Rugby Tournament will take place on Saturday, 06 September 2014. 19 school will be in action:…
From SARugby.net
September 04, 2014
A schools rugby coach who breached South African Rugby Union (SARU) rules governing under age rugby has been suspended and the points his school took for the match were overturned, following a SARU disciplinary hearing.The charge was the first brought to SARU under new regulations that were introduced to protect players under the age of 18 at the start of last season.
From Kuswag:
There is great excitement in the coastal town of Amanzimtoti in KZN. Kuswag school’s 1st rugby team is getting ready to take part in an international youth rugby tournament in Portugal. …
First of all I just want to say a big big thank you to Johan Snyman who updates the AffiesRugby.co.za website. Without his time and effort to retrieve the info and forward it, the database below would not have been possible.
If you have the first names of the players listed by just their initials, please forward it to beetb@telkomsa.net, so that the record can be completed. There is also a missing backline player’s name from 1997 as a result of a duplication. If you remember it, please post or forward it.…
Westville’s rugby fixture list for 2015 has a host of unexpected exciting surprises. Out of province schools Affies, Jeppe and Garsfontein (unconfirmed but close) have been lined up as brand new inter-schools opponents. Maritzburg College will become a home and away fixture for the first time. …
Before finalising the 2014 formula driven rankings, BHP has asked if bloggers can check if all their schools’s games are in the “played” category below. Some early season friendlies and shortened games are not taken into account and neither are any games played overseas on tours. Once I have updated all the data of outstanding games he will bring out the final rankings but doubt if it will change the top 20 anyway. Email: BoishaaiPa@gmail.com…
Traditional Boys’ Schools Rugby Luncheon – 2014 (Report from Glenwood)
On Friday 29 August, the 10th annual Traditional Schools Rugby Luncheon was again successfully hosted by Rob Visick, Doug Tweedie and their team at the Salt Rock Hotel on the KZN North Coast.
The 2014 edition continues to highlight the growth in popularity of the event with 180 guests from 9 of the Province’s Traditional Boys’ Rugby Schools all enjoying the camaraderie shared amongst these traditional rivals – both the Province and Schools were represented by some of their most well-known Old Boys and Rugby Families. …
Marcel Coetzee, the standout Maritzburg College outside centre with over 50 1st XV caps left his high school after the conclusion of the school rugby season to take up a rugby contract that now has him based at the Sharks Academy in Durban.…
Ploegskaar offers his views on the subject of recruitment:…
From Wynberg
Wynberg Boys’ High 1stXV completed a season double over traditional rivals the South African College High School (SACS). After another week of rain and cold the skies opened and the match was played in warm weather before a large crowd. Hosts SACS threw everything at Wynberg but the well-oiled Wynberg machine bided their time and took their chances better to run out 34-5 winners.…
Bishops and Rondebosch combined to produce a beautiful entertaining game of expansive rugby on Saturday. Bishops last completed a double over Rondebosch in 2008 and since then the games have been a see-saw ride with the surprising feature being that neither team was able to win on their own home ground.…
Marlow was crowned on Saturday as the champions of Die Burger Rugby Competition after beating Paarl Boys High 11-10 in a thrilling final.…
| DAY | DATE | SCHOOL | SCHOOL | EVENT | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat | 30/08/2014 | Marlow | 11 | 10 | HJS Paarl BH | Die Burger Large Sch Final |
| Sat | 30/08/2014 | Brandwag (Uitenhage) | 49 | 33 | Augsburg | Die Burger Medium Sch Final |
| Sat | 30/08/2014 | Excelsior | 39 | 3 | Bertram | Die Burger Small Sch Final |
| Sat | 30/08/2014 | Bishops | 22 | 21 | Rondebosch | On TV |
| Sat | 30/08/2014 | SACS | 5 | 34 | Wynberg | |
| Sat | 30/08/2014 | Louis Botha | 21 | 22 | Noord-Kaap | Shimla-Liga Final |
The finals of Die Burger Rugby Competition for High Schools will take place on Saturday 30 August at Cradock.
Programme:…
KwaZulu-Natal is unique in a sense because it has a Headmasters’ Agreement (HMA). Amongst other things this regulates the participation of under-19 rugby players.…
Muir College in Uitenhage near Port Elizabeth is hosting this year’s Traditional Schools Headmaster’s Annual Conference. 23 headmasters are attending. The conference started on Wednesday, 27 August 2014.…
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