Morgan Piek – Saturday evening the Toyota Cheetahs take on bitter foe, The Sharks in Bloemfontein. This will be the first of their two games in Super Rugby 2012. The Cheetahs side remains largely unchanged to the one that took on the DHL Stormers in Cape Town last Saturday. The most notable charge is at [...]

Australian conference leaders, the Brumbies will hit New Zealand shores this week to play the Hurricanes in round 13 of the Investec Super Rugby competition. With three rounds to go before the June break, the Hurricanes will now face three Australian teams in a row. After the Brumbies, the Hurricanes will host the Rebels in [...]

The Vodacom Bulls recalled experienced midfielder Wynand Olivier, loose forward Dewald Potgieter and prop Dean Greyling for Saturday’s Super Rugby clash against the Highlanders in Dunedin. The match in the Forsyth Barr Stadium will see Morné Steyn becoming the sixth player from the franchise to play 100 Super Rugby matches. Olivier replaces Francois Venter and [...]

Morgan Piek – The Barbarians have named a strong squad representing no less than ten different counties to take on England, Ireland and Wales during the Northern Hemisphere summer. This squad includes three capped centurions as well. They are John Smit (South Africa), Mils Muliaina (New Zealand) and Brian O’Driscoll (Ireland). The Barbarians won most [...]

The Vodacom Bulls moved to the top of the Vodacom Super Rugby standings and the DHL Stormers had to work very hard against the Toyota Cheetahs, but the performance of the weekend belonged to The Sharks. The Sharks franchise scored only their third half-century of points in Vodacom Super Rugby history when they crushed the [...]

GWK Griquas will host DHL Western Province, in their first Vodacom Cup final, in Kimberley after the two top sides from the North and South Sections won their semi-finals this weekend. The two best sides in the competition deservedly advanced to the final. DHL Western Province have not lost once this season, while GWK Griquas [...]

Luke Morahan of the Reds has been issued with an off-field yellow card for contravening Law 10.4 (j) Dangerous Lifting Tackle, Lifting a Player from the ground and either dropping or driving that Player’s head and/or upper body into the ground whilst the Player’s feet are off the ground is dangerous play, during a Super [...]

Vodacom Bulls flanker Deon Stegmann broke his arm in his side’s 27-24 win over the Waratahs in Sydney on Friday and will return to South Africa. He will be out of action for six weeks. He will be replaced by Dewald Potgieter, who has been declared fit following a hamstring strain. Potgieter and Dean Greyling [...]

SANZAR Duty Judicial Officer Mike Heron has recalled his decision of 1 May 2012 of a 3 Week Suspension to Highlanders player James Haskell and replaced it with a 4 week suspension. Haskell was found guilty of striking Cheetahs player Justin Downey following the match between the Cheetahs and the Highlanders at Free State Stadium [...]

May 10, 2012 This is a briefing document on South African participation in the 2013 Vodacom Super Rugby competition. Decision-making authority • The identity of the South African teams participating in the Vodacom Super Rugby competition is governed by the constitution of the South African Rugby Union (SARU). • Clause 9.2.5 specifies that the General [...]