With all the schoolboy festivals now over, players up and down the country can now get stuck into their traditonal derby days, their bread and butter. The attendances at the Easter festivals and especially Wildeklawer last weekend, demonstrate both the passion people have for schoolboy rugby, as well as the incredible product that the boys …
This weekend sees the return of European rugby, with the Quarter Finals of the Champions Cup. It really is the business end of the season now, with teams jostling for playoff spots in the Gallagher Premiership, Top 14 and the URC. There are no matches in those 3 competitions for the next two weeks, add …
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After a COVID enforced absence, the St Stithians College Rugby festival is back this Easter weekend. The Saints festival is the oldest of the Easter festivals, and probably the most prestigious. The festival was first hosted in 1984 and has gone from strength to strength ever since. It is now a multi-code sports festival, featuring …
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It has been an embarrassingly poor Currie Cup to the halfway stage. After starting with a bonus point win over the Lions, we have lost the next 5 in a row! The Lions are hopeless, and the fact that they are below us shows that this was a failure in some respects in conceding 36 …
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Every now and then, be it when scrolling through Netflix or browsing in my favourite Exclusive Books (Hyde Park), a blurb just resonates with me and I know I will enjoy the offering. A case in point is The Promise, my new favourite fiction book, and the 2021 Booker Prize winning effort by South African …
Le Crunch, the match between England and France, is always the highlight of the Six Nations, even if France have struggled in recent years. This weekend’s match, the final one of the competition, sees France going for the Grand Slam for the first time since 2010. They meet an England team smarting from a record …
When I was growing up, the FA Cup Final was a big event on our social calendar in Port Elizabeth, perhaps owing to South Africa’s isolation from international sport, but also because all my Dad’s friends seemed to have an English soccer team they keenly supported. Every year we would go to a different house …
After two false starts over the past two years thanks to COVID, it is all systems go for the new schoolboy rugby season in South Africa. Twitter has been featuring images of rugby poles going up all around the country as the excitement builds for what should be another interesting season, watching the Boks of …
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To infertility and beyond A COLLABORATION WITH A DEAR FRIEND As I hear of more and more couples battling with the complex world of infertility and the associated trauma, this book has enabled me to understand this world to a small extent and the toll it has taken on too many of my friends. Robyn …