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Paul Roos to tour Ireland in December 2023

18 November, 2023 beet 11

Paul Roos are gearing up to take on the Northern Hemisphere winter conditions complete with potentially tricky to adapt to surfaces, during the December 2023 school holidays, when they travel to Ireland for 11 days with a 38-player squad.…

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Grant Khomo Week 2024 – fixtures

18 November, 2023 beet 3
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New Boland Rugby deal has people buzzing about ambition

8 November, 2023 beet 0

Boland Rugby recently announced an exciting and potentially very lucrative deal with the Stellenbosch Academy of Sport (SAS), a subsidiary of Remgro Limited, and a consortium comprising companies controlled by the Motsepe family (Motsepe Consortium). Now a lot of Cape locals are talking about the sky being the limit.…

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Little Kingswood were huge in 2023!

22 October, 2023 beet 0

Kingswood, the English-medium independent co-ed (±200 boys) from Makhanda (Grahamstown), finished 2023 as the top school in Eastern Cape interschools matches. It turned out the 2023 season was on par with those of 2010 and 2016 when they also only lost 2 matches per season during those campaigns. Under the guidance of head coach James Winstanley they proved to be massive overachievers.…

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It’s business as unusual as KZN plans for 2024

25 September, 2023 beet 7

Finalising the KwaZulu-Natal fixture list for 2024 is at an advanced stage and its the usual unique elements that have played a part in making it the most difficult fixture list in the country to setup.…

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Menlopark hoping athletics gives their rugby the rapid recovery “hupstoot”

17 September, 2023 beet 3

The positive link between athletics and rugby has often been discussed on this forum in the past.  Now Menlopark are pinning rugby hopes on their outstanding athletics programme and very soon they will be the only school in South Africa with an 8-lane tartan athletics track to include in the offering (Noordheuwel has 6-lanes).…