Springbok lock Eben Etzebeth was on Thursday night named South Africa’s Rugby Player of the Year for 2023 – a year in which the Springboks successfully defended their World Cup title. Etzebeth, 32, won the award for the second successive year, edging out fellow World Cup-winners Pieter-Steph du Toit, Siya Kolisi, Frans Malherbe and Damian...
Springbok se dogters in toernooi-tennis Tennis: Die Kruger-susters sal Suid-Afrika vandag in die dubbelspel-eindstryd van die WIPHOLD-internasionale toernooi in Pretoria verteenwoordig. Die dogters van die 1995 Wêreldbeker-wenner Springbok Ruben Kruger, Isabella en Zoe, het vroeër die week hul eersteronde-wedstryd gewen en na die titelwedstryd deurgedring toe hul teenstanders hulle aan die kwarteind- sowel as die...
Rassie Erasmus can dream of an unprecedented third successive Rugby World Cup title after signing a four-year contract as South Africa head coach on Tuesday which includes the 2027 global showpiece in Australia. The 51-year-old has returned to the head coach role he filled when the Springboks beat England in the 2019 final before moving...
Springbok Sewes kyk vorentoe Die Springbok Sewes-span is in die Verenigde Arabiese Emirate vir die naweek se Dubaise Sewes waarmee die nuwe seisoen afskop. Die Blitsbokke het ʼn goeie prestasierekord in Dubai en kan passievolle ondersteuning verwag, maar hulle gaan niks as vanselfsprekend aanvaar nie. Die ervare voorspeler, Impi Visser, sê hulle is gretig om...
South Africa have named half-backs Handre Pollard and Faf de Klerk as well as hooker Bongi Mbonambi in their starting XV for the Rugby World Cup final against New Zealand on Saturday. Mbonambi makes the run-on team after being cleared by World Rugby on Thursday of having used a racial slur against England’s Tom Curry...
Strength in depth among forwards and backs has South Africans believing that captain Siya Kolisi and his Springboks can successfully defend in France the Rugby World Cup they won four years ago. Winning back-to-back titles at the global showpiece has proven difficult with only the Richie McCaw-skippered New Zealand achieving the feat, in 2011 and...
South Africa’s Canan Moodie is set to make his first Test start in midfield after the wing was named at outside centre in a team to play New Zealand in a World Cup warm-up at Twickenham on Friday. Moodie scored two of the world champions’ eight tries in a 52-16 warm-up rout of Wales in...