Vodacom Bulls lock Wilhelm Steenkamp will lead the team in their first outing of 2012 when they take on the Kings in Port Elizabeth on Saturday. Steenkamp is one of three players in the team with extensive Super Rugby experience, with former Lions players Jano Vermaak and Willie Wepener the others. The rest of the [...]

South Africa’s top referees scrummed against each and were given master classes from top coaches as part of a recently completed four-day training camp prior to the start of the 2012 rugby season. Former Springbok prop Balie Swart had SA’s top whistlers packing down to demystify the intricacies of scrumming while Rassie Erasmus and Rudolph [...]

Stephan Dippenaar, the former Vodacom Bulls centre, will make his Springbok Sevens debut in Wellington this weekend after he was named in in the Blitzbokke team for the New Zealand Sevens tournament. Dippenaar replaces Chase Minnaar and his versatility means that the team can use him either as a mobile forward or a strong runner [...]

The South African Rugby Union (SARU) today welcomed CIB Insurance Administrators (CIB) into their sponsorship family after CIB secured a new three year partnership deal as an associate sponsor for Vodacom Super Rugby. Vodacom Super Rugby is the largest rugby union competition in the Southern Hemisphere, consisting of a total of 15 teams – five [...]

The Treble Group, who have recently signed PostNet as the naming rights sponsor to the Post Match Signing Session for all games that the DHL Stormers and the DHL Western Province (Pty) Ltd at DHL Newlands Rugby Stadium in 2012, are pleased to announce that PostNet in partnership with Ticketpro will also be the official [...]

The Southern Kings’ place in the Vodacom Super Rugby competition in 2013 was reaffirmed at a Special Council Meeting of the South African Rugby Union (SARU) in Cape Town on Friday. Proposals on mechanisms to identity the four other South African entrants will be considered at a SARU Special General Meeting on March 30. “The [...]

Heyneke Meyer will be the new Springbok coach after a Special General Meeting of the South African Rugby Union (SARU) ratified his proposed appointment in Cape Town on Friday. The 44-year-old Blue Bulls rugby executive takes over from Peter de Villiers, who coached the Springboks from 2008 to 2011. He will take charge as head [...]

The DHL WP Vodacom Cup squad will take on the DHL WP Amateur squad in a curtain raiser match to the DHL Stormers vs Lions game on Friday night at DHL Newlands at 19h00, in the first match of the DHL Pre-Season Series. The teams to play are as follows: DHL WP Vodacom Cup Squad [...]

At a meeting called by SARU, on Tuesday, 24 January 2012, with the Blue Bulls Company’s Board of Directors, SARU informed the Blue Bulls Board of their intention to offer Heyneke Meyer the position of National Coach. The Blue Bulls Board reiterated its position that Meyer is under contract with the Blue Bulls Company and [...]

1 Marcel van der Merwe 2 Adriaan Strauss ( c ) 3 Trevor Nyakane 4 Francois Uys 5 Izak van der Westhuizen 6 Heinrich Brussow 7 Davon Raubenheimer 8 Ashley Johnson 9 Piet van Zyl 10 Johan Goosen 11 Rocco Jansen 12 Andries Strauss 13 Robert Ebersohn 14 Dusty Noble 15 Hennie Daniller REPLACEMENTS: 16 [...]