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Glenwood Festival 2019
At Glenwood High School in Durban…
Capricorn Group Sevens Rugby Tournament 2019 – SA u18 team
The international under-18 Sevens tournament featuring South Africa, Botswana, Germany, Zimbabwe and hosts Namibia will be played on Windhoek Gymnasium’s artificial pitch on 08-09 March 2019. From 08-09 February 2019, a training squad of 22 SA hopefuls will be put through their paces in the Cape before a final touring team of 13 picked to represent South Africa at the international event.…
Varsity Cup 2019
For any comments about 2019 competition.…
School rugby is dying
A recent New Zealand Rugby report surprisingly pointed to the decreasing schoolboy rugby participation at an “alarming rate”.…
Another high school headmistress
Grahamstown based private co-ed Kingswood welcomed Dr Colleen Vassiliou as their new College Head recently.…
Border Schools Rugby Day 2019
| SLOT | DATE | SCHOOL | SCHOOL | BROADCAST | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09h00 | Sat.09Mar | Gonubie | – | – | De Vos Malan |  |
| 10h10 | Sat.09Mar | Chief Boklein | – | – | Lillyfontein | |
| 11h20 | Sat.09Mar | Port Rex | – | – | Phillip Mtywaku | |
| 12h40 | Sat.09Mar | Grens | – | – | Zanempucuko | |
| 13h50 | Sat.09Mar | Queen’s | – | – | Cambridge | |
| 15h00 | Sat.09Mar | Dale | – | – | Stirling | |
| 16h10 | Sat.09Mar | Selborne | – | – | Hudson Park | |
Wesgrow Sentrale Sports Reeks 2019
It’s season two of the Sentrale Sports Reeks. In 2018, Diamantveld claimed the inaugural 1st XV title while Bethlehem Voortrekker walked away with the overall award for the best school for all age-groups combined. Link : 2018 Wesgrow SSR final table…
Matric Results 2018 : ranking table for rugby schools
Updated to include several IEB schools
Rondebosch produced outstanding results to edge out Bishops and finish top for NSC examination schools that perform reasonably well in rugby in their respective regions.
The IEB schools have been left off until all required data is available. What is known is that St John’s College had an amazing set of results and if their university pass rate is 90% or higher, they would finish above Rondebosch. Helpmekaar and Kearsney not only achieved a 100% pass rate, all their students got degree passes. Hilton were also amongst those that showed academic improvement as they closed the gap on KZN’s IEB leading schools.
Here is a table listing the matric results 2018 achievements and ranking of most of the rugby playing high schools who progress is tracked during the season on this website.
Please note that the weighting for this ranking relies primarily on University Degree passes and Maths/Physics achievement.
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List of 2019 schoolboy players already being tracked by SARU
SARU’s EPD camp of 2018, which was held during the third term holidays, provides a useful preseason list of players to keep an eye on in 2019. …