Don’t underestimate the World Cup connection in restoring the Springboks imbalance of not having played a Test in nearly two years. World Cup winner Faf de...
FFS … if you can’t beat Benetton, you can’t beat the Blues. And you most certainly won’t beat the Crusaders. Forget the challenge of Exeter, Munster...
Jake White’s return to South African rugby has made the game stronger in this country. It is good to have the 2007 World Cup-winning coach back...
Rugby analyst and SA Rugby Magazine’s Zelim Nel’s ‘forward pass’ video has been labelled irresponsible by South African referee Stuart Berry. Nel’s insistence is that the...
Someone needs to sort out what constitutes a high tackle and what is a rugby collision before the start of the Springboks three-match Test series against...
Jonah Lomu’s four-try demolition of England at my beloved Newlands in Cape Town remains one of the highlights of my rugby writing career. I was privileged...
Mark Keohane, writing for IOL Sport, in a series reflecting on the 1995 Rugby World Cup. Jonah Lomu in 1994 played his first ever match on...
Bakkies Botha was the Enforcer of all things on a rugby field. The legendary Springboks, Bulls and Toulon hard man, who started his career with the...
The United Rugby Championship is a great name and it will be a great competition, which kills off the stigma that Pro 14 was in any...
South African Rugby had no alternative but to double book whoever qualified for the final of the Rainbow Cup in terms of this weekend’s opening round...
Dougie Heymans, the man Os du Randt described as the toughest prop he ever faced, has passed away. RIP. This is a tribute to the original...
Jesse Kriel’s international rugby career has seen him go from a man who could never get dropped from the Springbok side, to a player with uncertainty...
Please everyone in South African and Bulls rugby, get those medical papers of Cornal Hendricks in order and get him into the Springboks national squad. But...
The Crusaders scored 52 points against the Rebels, won for a fifth successive time in five matches against Australian opposition, finished with a 97 points tournament...
I want the Bulls to beat the Sharks in Durban on Saturday and qualify for the Rainbow Cup final, writes Mark Keohane. And it has nothing...
Curwin Bosch will play for the Sharks for the next year, thanks to the guidance of his agent Hilton Houghton and the support of Sharks CEO...