| School Rugby fixtures & results – week ending 02 May 2026 | ||||||
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| Wed.29Apr | EP | Pearson | 15-15 | KES | LIO | |
| Thu.30Apr | BOR | Selborne | 72-15 | Ooskus Gim | BOR | |
| Thu.30Apr | EP | x-x | BUL | |||
| Fri.01May | BOR | Hudson Park | 45-26 | Framesby | EP | |
| Fri.01May | EP | Brandwag (EP) | 22-23 | Daniel Pienaar | EP | |
| Fri.01May | EP | Nico Malan | 24-13 | Punt | SWD | |
| Fri.01May | EP | Burgersdorp | 15-47 | Fichardtpark | FS | |
| NWU PRESTIGE | ||||||
| Fri.01May | BUL | Zwartkop | 47-28 | Heidelberg VS | VAL | NWU Prestige 01-02 |
| Fri.01May | BUL | Montana | 32-10 | Wesvalia | LEO | NWU Prestige 03-04 |
| Fri.01May | LIM | Pietersburg | 45-15 | Marais Viljoen | LIO | NWU Prestige 05-06 |
| Fri.01May | LEO | Klerksdorp | 25-15 | Wagpos | LEO | NWU Prestige 07-08 |
| Fri.01May | LEO | Bergsig Ak | 10-38 | Potch Volkskool | LEO | NWU Prestige 09-10 |
| Fri.01May | LEO | Lichtenburg | 21-26 | Hugenote (Springs) | VAL | NWU Prestige 11-12 |
| Fri.01May | VAL | Die Anker | vs | Jeugland | VAL | NWU Prestige 13-14 |
| WESTERN CAPE | ||||||
| Fri.01May | WP | Stellenberg | 38-10 | Wynberg | WP | |
| Fri.01May | BOL | Hugenote | 40-20 | New Orleans | BOL | |
| Fri.01May | BOL | Porterville | 22-10 | Brackenfell | WP | |
| Fri.01May | BOL | Robertson | 31-31 | Tygerberg | WP | |
| KWAZULU-NATAL | ||||||
| Sat.02May | KZN | Hilton | 23-21 | Michaelhouse | KZN | |
| Sat.02May | KZN | Westville | 14-14 | Kearsney | KZN | |
| Sat.02May | KZN | Maritzburg Coll | 45-05 | St Charles | KZN | |
| EASTERN CAPE | ||||||
| Sat.02May | BOR | Port Rex | 24-52 | Dale | BOR | |
| Sat.02May | EP | St Andrew’s | 22-34 | Graeme | EP | |
| FREE STATE – GRIQUAS | ||||||
| Fri.01May | FS | Sentraal | 19-15 | St John’s (NZ) | NZ | Sentraal Festival |
| Fri.01May | GRF | Beth. Voortrekker | 35-07 | Dr Malan | NV | Sentraal Festival |
| Fri.01May | GRF | Welkom Gim | 56-13 | Otto du Plessis | EP | Sentraal Festival |
| NOORDVAAL | ||||||
| Sat.02May | VAL | EG Jansen | 19-85 | Monument | LIO | NV Cup |
| Sat.02May | BUL | Garsfontein | 49-24 | Helpmekaar | LIO | NV Cup |
| Sat.02May | PUM | Middelburg | 26-25 | Menlopark | BUL | NV Cup |
| Sat.02May | LEO | Rustenburg | 10-33 | Waterkloof | BUL | NV Cup |
| Fri.01May | VAL | Kempton Park | 27-12 | HTS Middelburg | PUM | NV Plate |
| Fri.01May | PUM | Nelspruit | 31-20 | Transvalia | VAL | NV Plate |
| Fri.01May | PUM | Ligbron | 28-14 | Eldoraigne | BUL | NV Shield |
@Loubser (Comment #55)
As ek so vinnig tel, 10 Springbokke in daai WP span…
Die Loskop was Nan Broekman en die kaptein was Richard Cooke die haker. Die span daai dag: Harry Muller (Springbok), Frank Sulliven, Wimpie vd Westhuizen, Steve meyer, Kallie Grobler, Gert LeGrange, Klasie LeGrange, Jorrie Jordaan, Hendry Van Tonder, terence Moll, Bertus van Eeden, Vleis Van Zyl, Jan Loubser, Richard Cooke, Nan Broekman. WP span: Collin Beck, Frikkie Ebershon, Wilfred Cupido, Chris Smith, Carel Du Plessis, Michael Du Plessis, Divan Serfontein, Nick Mallet, Theuns Stofberg, Hennie Bekker, Andre Markgraaf, Rob Low, Attie Straus, Shaun Povey, Henniong van Asweging
@Kaya 85 (Comment #34)
😃😃😃😃 I hope the two of you had a lekka chat and beer. I am glad the quality of refereeing improved.
I must say, I am enjoying the comments re old players and what they did on and off the field. Still remember lots of them.
@Loubser (Comment #42)
Was die ander stut nie Fanie Snyman nie en die kaptein oom Brian Hayes?
#Mate – Ken vir Johan BAIE goed van graad 1 tot matriek saam.. nou nog vriende.
Kobus bietjie jonger as ons – so 3 jaar.
Albei Hoerskool Middelburg.
@tzavosky (Comment #50)
Ek het daai name gehoor maar nie geken nie
@Mate (Comment #49)
OK, so jy sou nie vir Willie Storm, Heini Brussouw en daai ouens geken het nie – so 5jaar voor jou.
@tzavosky (Comment #48)
84,85
@Mate (Comment #45)
Watter jare was jy in Kollege?
@Kaya 85 (Comment #46)
Tussen Delft en Rotterdam….
@Mate (Comment #45)
aan het oever van de Schelftzee…
Ek het groot maats van Middelburg gehad destyds op Tuks. Een was Kobus Schoeman, SA 110m hekkieskampioen. Hy mag nie rugby gespeel het nie agv sy atletiek maar het gereeld opgekom as Kollegehuis agter was om gou n paar driee te druk. Hy kon n bal ook n myl skop. Ander een was Johan Muller, slot gespeel en die enforcer. Hy was ook die nie amptelike bouncer by Kollege se sokkies.
Maar ek dink beide was in HTS
# Middiespa – Daar is soveel mooi stories.
Daardie skool van ons lyk baie mooi!!!
Ek het self gras geplant op daardie rugbyveld en gras atletiekbaan saam met Mnr Nel en Fennas as ons LO gehad het.
Was laasjaar daar met die Cravenweek en was BAIE trots!!
#Loubser – Jou pa was my held as jong seun!!! Hy was n fenominale rugbyspeler. Hy was van die eerste stutte wat met die bal gehardloop het soos n agterspeler.
Ek het hom jare later by jou broer raakgeloop in Pta en dit vir hom vertel.
Super spelers gewees.. Harry Muller, Kallie Grobler, Richard Cooke wat 9? vaskoppe gehaak het teen Willie Khatz daardie tyd en nog vele meer….
Ek en my pa het op n Woensdag aand na werk as my pa by die huis kom deurgery Ermelo toe om die rugby te gaan kyk as Middelburg daar gespeel het dan kom ons na 12 uur by die huis!!! Het n paar hbuise van die stadiun af gebly.
Ek het baie dinge sien kom en gaan in rugby…..goed en sleg!!
jammer ek val net so in, maar my pa het in daai SuidOos span gespeel daai dag, ek was 4 jaar oud
Jan Loubser, vaskop stut gewees, maar ja ek het langs daai Witbank stadium se velde groot geword, was lekker jare vir SuidOos rugby. @Hanswors ek en Boerpens se seun martin was saam op skool sy naam was martin en ons het hom ook Boerries genoem, was n briljante groot 13 gewees, op Hoerskool vir Ermelo gespeel en naskool so bietjie in Frankryk maar die brandewyn en coke het sy tol ge-eis ongelukkig.
@Hanswors (Comment #40) Daar is ook die storie van ‘n welbekende besigheidsman in die Witbank/Middelburg omgewing wat die ref met die vuis bygekom het omdat hy so swak geblaas het. Hy is gewaarsku dat as dit ooit weer gebeur hy nooit weer mag rugby speel nie. Met ‘n volgende geleentheid het hy weer voor ‘n sogenaamde “skelm” ref gestaan en vir sy kaptein genoem dat hy nie die vorige ref moes geslaan het nie maar eerder vir hierdie een moes gewag het.
#39 Nee ongelukkig nie was toe reeds op Universiteit maar het al die manne geken want ek het vakansie tye vir Middelburg dorp rugby gespeel.
Ek het gewonder of ek sy naam moes noem maar dit is n storie wat my altyd sal bybly!!
Daar was n vleuel wat daai jare n spoedvraat was.. Boerpens Strydom …. ons as skoolkinders het geglo hy is so vinnig omdat hy plastiek hakskene gehad het.. dit is die storie onder ons kinders gewees!!
@Hanswors (Comment #35)
So, was jy daar toe Suidoos vir WP gewen het in 1983?
TV DEKKING VERHOED DAT SKEIDSREGTERS VERNEUK VANDAG!
Vandag se televisie-dekking van bykans elke skolewedstryd maak dit uiters onwaarskynlik dat skeidsregters opsetlik sal verneuk. Ja, 50/50-beslissings kan soms twyfelagtig wees, maar ek glo nie dat ’n skeidsregter doelbewus seuns sou benadeel deur sy beslissings nie.
Die persoonlike aanvalle op sosiale media teen skeidsregters het te ver gegaan, en hy of sy sal hul nie onnodig onder daarcie druk plaas nie. Daar is eenvoudig te veel op die spel, en baie van hierdie jong manne werk hard aan hul gradering in die hoop om raakgesien te word om op hoër vlakke te blaas
@Hanswors (Comment #35)
Ja, dit was Polla, wou hom nie graag hier uitwys nie (sien hy is al 80). Maar dis ‘n great rugby storie!
@Hanswors (Comment #35)
an eye witness confirms the skaapdief story…
gotta love that story.
Middelburg v Koolvelde
#TZAVOSKY – Ek was daar gewees die dag toe dit gebeur het. Dit was op Koolvelde se veld gewees (Komatie kragstasie – Middelburg het gespeel teen Koolvelde). Daardie dae was klubrugby baie groot in die ou SO TVL.
Ons het op so n hoender stellasie gesit en die lynstaan was reg voor die stellasie gewees, die ou links voor my en my pa het die woorde ge uiter”….Polla Fourie – jou skaapdief” Polla het gese “askuus meneer die ref, stop asb gou die game ek wil net gou daai ou gaan moer” ej hy het dit gedoen voor my oe!!!!
Dankie meneer die ref en aangegaan met die spel.
Goeie ou dae!!!!
Go Middies… my Almamater!!
@Chronicle (Comment #32) so funny…not the fighting stories, but all the memories. Refereeing has improved a LOT since the old Suidoos days. Kaya himself as a younger man got many requests to referee a certain school’s 2nd team games (before there where enough Union Refs for big school 2nd teams). The standard really is much better, and Refs get moderated, adjudicated, promoted etc. so the referees mostly do a good job despite usually the losing side’s complaints. When I used to ref those days, I got plenty stick from the sidelines time to time. One day I turned to look who this guy is complaining yet again about my (correct) decisions…only to see it was Kaya’s own Uncle yelling…Lol, true. I don’t think he recognised me.
@Chronicle (Comment #32)Things changed a lot since those times. I remember it well. The home school/club had to provide the ref. We had a club game where the ref stopped the game due to punching and after he stopped the game, he joined the fight. These days most of the refs are appointed by the union except the lower teams that still gets teachers/coaches from both the two participating schools to ref the games.
@Middies pa (Comment #29) You don’t understand. I went to school in the old SE Tvl. I am talking about how all the schools in the old SE Tvl were affected by weird (home town) referee decisions when playing each other. I am asking whether it is still the case. Did the refereeing improve or not?
@Middies pa (Comment #29)
Agreed. Whenever a big city school loses here, it has to be the Mpumalanga refs, according to many “city” commentators on here. Little credit to the winning team. This season Nelspruit plays 5 home games, 10+ away games.And away games for Nelspruit entails 5 to 7 hours bus drives just getting there and then sleeping over. When the boys play at home, they relish the oppurtunity.
Congrats to Middelburg, it was a pleasant surprise to see the Menlo results.
@Mate (Comment #28)
Nee, ek weet nie, maar ek wonder wat doen die mammie wat ‘n brief vir Beeld geskryf het en gesê het hulle kinders se drome is verwoes, en veral wonder ek wat van haar kind geword het – hoop hy is OK.
@Chronicle (Comment #26)Unfair comment. Middies won 10 of the 13 games and the lower teams were reffed by teachers from the two schools. I watch club rugby on a regular basis in Pretoria and my blood boils every time on the lack of consistancy by the BB refs.
@tzavosky (Comment #27)
Wie was nou weer daai Helpies blogger wat die Tzaneen lynregters beskuldig het dat hulle in die lug gespring het van blydskap toe Ben Vorster teen Helpmekaar gespeel het?
@Chronicle (Comment #26) No, I have little to no experience of SETvl refs, but I’ve heard a story about a player asking the ref to be excused from the field for a short while, who then went into the pavilion to beat up a spectator who called him a sheep thieve!
@tzavosky (Comment #16) Menlo losing against Middelburg. Wow, was this another case of “the revenge of the Mpumalanga refs?” I’ve posted before, in the old South Eastern Transvaal the refs mostly decided the winner and loser. Even if it was 2 teams in SE Tvl. We never knew whether we would win or lose, no matter whether we were the weaker or stronger team. We encountered new rules every other week. Like a penalty on the 22m when the kick-off was directly into touch. Or when an opponent was struggling to get up after a tackle, the penalty was for tackling too hard. I am asking, not blaming!
@BereFan (Comment #24)
Dis impressive! Well done aan die /16 ook.
@Grizzly (Comment #22)
Garsies se 14s het hom gevat in die doodsnikke nadat hulle 17-0 agter was. Het gewen 21-17. Die o14s raak elke week beter ek dink nie dis die mees talentvolle span wat daar al was in die laaste paar jaar nie maar hulle begin al hoe beter lyk!
@Wonder (Comment #21)
Daardie o16 span het een van die mees ongelukkige jare as dit kom by beserings ek dink die feit dat hulle helpies se o16s steeds kon wen by al die spanne is meer as net indrukwekkend. Dis nog sleutelspelers ook wat beseer is!
@Wonder (Comment #21)
Well done Bere. Altyd goed om teen Tjaart te wen. Wat het die /14 gedoen? Helpies se /14 het Boishaai gewen wat hul eerste verloor was.
@BereFan (Comment #19)
Baie trots op Garsies se 0/16 span, goeie wen teen Helpies, Garsies het 6 eerste keuse spelers wat beseer is, welgedaan Bere.
@tzavosky (Comment #16)
Stem saam, skole rugy is baie onvoorspelbaar, ek is so bly iemand het terug geantwoord, begin dink daar is iets fout op die blog! Middelburg het 10/13 games gewen.
@tzavosky (Comment #18)
Na die eerste rondte le hulle algeheel laaste saam met menlo. Ek vermoed menlo se spanne sal optel deur die seisoen(veral wanneer dit tuis games is en ver van die Pumas refs af) waar EG tuis gespeel het en nogsteeds swaar getrek het. EG het beslis n berg voor hulle.
@Smallies (Comment #17) Dit hang af van hoe hulle ander spanne vaar in die Cup afdeling, in vergelyking met die ander spanne s’n.
Ek vermoed EG se dae in die beker kompetiesie is getel….
@Wonder (Comment #15) Daai uitslag wys maar net hoe onvoorspelbaar skolerugby (en rankings!) kan wees. 6 weke terug het Die Menlo Die HS Ben Vorster ‘n ordentlike pak slae gegee; 3 weke terug het Die BV gelykop gespeel teen Die MB, en nou dit!
Why is the blog so quiet? Maybe because DIE Middelburg won die Menlo?
Fantasties Bere!
@OomPB (Comment #12)
Just the festivals on neutral soil. This is their first one at a big opponent.
Stellies have 3 outstanding backs IMO – van Biljon, Mongie and Roode and Steffen is decent but in the big games if feels like its the way their forwards interact with the backs that make things happen rather than pure backline strike plays or X-factor. So when the likes of Molnar, Brink and Coetze come up with big plays, that’s when the backline finds really attacking form. Otherwise its really Mongie and van Biljon winning 1v1s or Roode pulling off something special that defies the amount time and space he has in front of him.
@beet (Comment #11) Have Stellenberg played away from home? Their backs are exciting and will test Oakdale’s defense
@OomPB (Comment #6)
BIG TEST next weekend in Riversdale. Oakdale are worth at least 10 points there and Stellies are not an expansive team that moves the scoreboard, so expect a battle royale and won’t write off Oakdale winning that one
@Kaya 85 (Comment #9) Thanks, let’s see
@Wonder (Comment #3)
Selected Predictions:
NV
Jansen 16 – 44 Monnas
Garsies 36 – 20 Helpies
EC
St Andrews 26 – 42 Graeme
KZN
Hilton 29 – 27 Michaelhouse
Westville 54 – Kearsney 14
Maritzburg College 52 – 6 St Charles
@Martin (Comment #5)
Stunning performance from the awesome Jade Brigade. Love them!!
@OomPB (Comment #6)
HJS en Oakdale gaan die groot toetse wees. Stellenberg was okay vandag, maar Wynberg het regtig gesukkel. Ongelooflik baie missed tackles, swak hantering en swak besluitneming. As Wynberg so gaan speel die res van die jaar, gaan hulle ‘n paar pakslae kry in die WP-liga.
@Martin (Comment #5)
Thanks. Daar is niemand wat Stellenberg die jaar gaan klop nie.
@OomPB (Comment #4)
38 – 10 for Stellenberg
@Snelvuur (Comment #2) Wat was die score?
@Kaya, waiting for your predictions, please post.
The Stellenberg-Wynberg game is on Friday, not Saturday. That will make it three games in a week (Saturday, Monday, Friday) for Stellenberg. Playing three games in a week went pretty pear-shaped for the previous top teams that tried it this year…
Hilton Michaelhouse should be a cracker! Both teams are having good seasons and weather looks like it is playing along – so a great fixture in the making. Will give Hilton the edge having home ground advantage this weekend – HC by 5.