Maties continued their domination of the FNB Varsity Cup tournament when they won their third consecutive final, beating Ikeys 17 – 14. The win means that Maties have won all three Varsity Cups since the tournament began in 2007.
Former South African Springbok Francois Pienaar, who is now[...]
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Maties vs Tukkies
Maties continued their domination of the FNB Varsity Cup with a 64 – 17 demolition of Tukkies at the Danie Craven Stadium in Stellenbosch.
The game got off to a fast start with Maties scoring a try after just 19 seconds. A Tukkies clearance was[...]
TUKKIES v NMMU
Once again it wasn’t meant to be for the bottom-of-the-log Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) team who remain pointless after the fourth week of the FNB Varsity Cup competition.
In an extremely average display, “the Madibas” allowed themselves to be dominated in every aspect of[...]
The annual FNB Varsity Cup kicked off at the beginning of February. The tournament sees the top eight rugby-playing universities in SA, as selected by the SA Students Sports Union (SASSU), go head-to-head every Monday night. Started in 2008, with the backing of former Springbok captain Francois Pienaar, the[...]
Quite literally from June 11 2010 until July 12 2010, SA will be the centre of the world’s attention. There have been some defining moments in SA’s history, such as Nelson Mandela’s release, and the country’s first democratic elections. July 11 2010, when the 2010 Fifa World Cup kicks[...]
Former football star, television soccer analyst and businessman Marks Maponyane says young people who dream of success need to be disciplined. He says the world is open for them to follow their dreams and they can be what they want to without too many stumbling blocks.
“I started playing[...]
World Cup spectators are expected to spend about R15bn while they are in SA, and lots of people are hoping to get a piece of this pie. A recent Human Sciences Research Council study has found that more than one in three South Africans believe they will benefit from[...]
Platinum Stars’s centre-back Willem Jackson, 37, is a former Bafana Bafana team member. Jackson made his international debut for SA in November 1997, and went on to make 18 appearances for the national side, including two appearances at the 1998 World Cup. Born in 1972 in Bloemfontein, Jackson began[...]
Fifa takes the beautiful game to all corners of the world. World soccer ’s governing body Fifa – which proudly boasts that it flies more flags than the United Nations – is currently embroiled in a scandal involving a senior figure for the third time this year. It’s been[...]
Rugby League is a simpler and faster game than Union, but it is much less interesting. In its attempt to be accessible, it sacrificed the fascination of intricacy.
We tend to think that rugby has been a big-money activity only for the past decade because the game officially went[...]
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