costs are high with South Africa’s weak currency also making it difficult to retain players lured by lucrative contracts abroad. The Springboks won the last two Rugby World Cups but lag behind ...

With back-to-back World Cup wins in 2019 and 2023, South Africa’s dominance in world rugby is no accident. The country breeds the toughest players in the sport, and England’s 2003 Rugby World ...

New Zealand-born Murray usually plays on the wing, but was used at full-back in the autumn defeat to South Africa. He trained in this position in Rome on Friday. Josh Hathaway joins the ...

Swiss tennis great Roger Federer met up with Springbok rugby captain Siya Kolisi on a visit this week to South Africa ... rugby for being unable to pay its players, the club said on Wednesday.

The Cheetahs have confirmed that former Springbok stars Frans Steyn and Ruan Pienaar will perform key coaching roles together ...

They previously qualified for the 2019 and 2023 Rugby World Cups, only to be disqualified on each occasion for fielding ineligible players ... against Uruguay, South Africa and Scotland.

Francke Horn was schooled at Paarl Boys High, but has made his rugby home in Johannesburg, where he is hugely popular with ...

Springboks rugby players are red-hot property for prospective ... Interestingly, a couple of South African sides have shown interest in bringing him back to SA. “Handre Pollard is in high ...

Yet one of the most exciting prospects in South African rugby currently is the continued ... “That’s a sign of a good player, because people know he (Hanekom) can do it, people expect him ...

South Africa's star forward Eben Etzebeth has suffered a return ... winner with the Springboks and his performances last year saw him nominated for World Rugby's Player of the Year for a second ...

According to Kallie Kriel, CEO of AfriForum, it is not in the interest of South African rugby, players or the supporters of the sport that SARU adopted a policy which may lead to disciplinary action ...

Sonny Bill Williams was also a tall player and always got his arms through the tackle ... I first coached him when he played for the South African Schools team, and he was already good at it,” he said ...