JOHANNESBURG, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- South African deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa will be off to London on Monday where the announcement of the Rugby World Cup 2023 host venue will be announced.The deputy president will lead South Africa team to the World Rugby Council in London, where the a...
Each team faces the others twice and plays a total of six matches: three at home and three away. The winner is determined via a points system, with each team awarded four points for winning a match and two points for a draw. When did the Tri Nations become known as The Rugby ...
History of the South Africa national rugby union team
SOUTH AFRICA & IRELAND TEAMS SQUAD PHOTOGRAPH 1912 - A photograph of the 1912 South African Springboks & Ireland team that played in Dublin on 30th November 1912. South Africa won the match 38-0. The players and officials in this photograph are as follows: V V Drennan, S H Ledger, J ...
"I am happy to return to the team and we are going to have many matches this year all geared towards qualifying for the World Cup. We start in South Africa and then play Germany. They are exciting matches and we will learn a lot from them," Kopondo said. ...
On Nov. 6, the team will move to Johannesburg for final preparations and for the big battle when they will face Zambia on Nov. 8 at the Bosman Stadium in Brakpan. Africa's top 14 men's sevens teams will take part in the tournament, which also serves as a qualifier for the 2020 Olym...
The last team to qualify for the tournament,… Pivotal: South Africa play the All Blacks and the winner will likely decide the group winner in 2019 (Getty Images) South Africa Rugby World Cup Squad Rassie Erasmus has named his World Cup squad below; ...
ALGIERS, July 21 (Xinhua) -- The South African youth rugby team on Saturday snatched the gold medal of the African Youth Games in Algeria, as they beat Namibia in the men's final match at the 5th July Stadium in upper Algiers.
In the women’s game, the New Zealand national rugby union team is just as dominant as the men’s team. They’re called the Black Ferns and they’ve won five of the past sixWomen's RugbyWorld Cups. Like the men, they’re also the only women’s international side with a winning rec...
South Africa’s rugby team, the Springboks, won the Rugby World Cup in 1995, 2007, 2019, and 2023. The 1995 victory was particularly poignant, as the country’s first Black president, Nelson Mandela, and the captain of the predominantly white rugby team, François Pienaar, used the tournam...