The 45-year-old will take over coaching duties from Allister Coetzee, who was in charge of the Boks for the last two years
Two sporting events cradling our collective national pride fall on this weekend. By Monday we could either be in collective mourning or be celebrating
The Bok coach named a 24-man squad featuring several players returning from injury rehabilitation for the home leg of the Tri-Nations series.
Springboks coach Pieter de Villiers says he’s leaving behind any Tri-Nations hopes and will rather be eyeing the World Cup come September.
Receiving a Springbok contract should not be seen as a guaranteed place in the World Cup squad, Bok coach Peter de Villiers said on Wednesday.
Coach Peter de Villiers feels his side’s dreams of retaining the World Cup in New Zealand next year have been given a big lift by their hard work.
The Springboks are on the cusp of greatness, but they will need to demonstrate strength of character in their away games.
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/ 27 October 2008
Earl Rose was a shock inclusion on Saturday as the only specialist flyhalf in the Springbok team for its three-Test tour to the United Kingdom.
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/ 16 September 2008
Lev David on alleged rugby sex tape: There have been a great many adulterers through history who had other things to recommend them.
France prop Pieter de Villiers has announced his retirement, saying he is tired of having to fight injuries. The South African-born player, who won 69 caps for France and five French titles with Stade Francais, said he had taken his decision after injuring his neck in a Heineken Cup match in Cardiff in December.
Oregan Hoskins was re-elected on Friday to a further two-year term as president of the South African Rugby Union (Saru), narrowly beating his deputy, Mike Stofile, at Saru’s annual general meeting. Saru did not issue an official confirmation of the voting tally, but it is understood that the closeness of the vote saw auditors call for a recount.
With just four months to go before the Beijing Olympics only eight South African track and field athletes have achieved qualifying times. Athletics South Africa says there is nothing to worry about. This is despite the fact that South Africa won no medals at the last two International Association of Athletics Federations world championships in Finland and Japan.
Frederic Michalak is an anomaly in the migration patterns, the maverick flyhalf the sole French player moving to South Africa to play while many Boks head the other way. It now seems almost voguish that every French rugby team have at least a couple of South Africans on their books.
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/ 29 January 2008
Springbok coach Pieter de Villiers, who is currently on a tour to address the players and coaching staff of all five of South Africa’s Super 14 franchises, will visit England coach Brian Ashton on his upcoming overseas tour — but he won’t have contact with any of the Springboks currently playing overseas.
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/ 25 January 2008
It was with growing astonishment, anger and finally disgust that I read Corné Krige’s recent comments on new Springbok coach Pieter de Villiers. The most nauseating part of what read like a racist attack by the former Bok captain on De Villiers was a line from his final paragraph.
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/ 9 November 2007
Hot on the heels of Springbok coach Jake White’s announcement of his imminent departure, the South African Rugby Union (Saru) seems set to add the name of Dick Muir to its shortlist of candidates to replace White. This is the same Saru that claimed White could not be considered for an extension of his post because he had missed the deadline for applications.
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/ 4 November 2007
World Cup-winning South Africa coach Jake White has held talks with England rugby chiefs, a media report said on Sunday. White guided South Africa to a 15-6 victory over England in the World Cup final at the Stade de France in Paris on October 20 and announced on Wednesday that he would quit his post in December.
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/ 2 November 2007
The rugby season is over and the foot-shooting season is upon us again. On the field the game in South Africa is stronger than it has ever been. Proof came in Bloemfontein on Saturday when the Free State Cheetahs took two tries on the chin from the Lions, then scored two of their own to win the Currie Cup final 20-18.
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/ 22 October 2007
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South Africa may have reclaimed the World Cup for the southern hemisphere after a one-off win by England in 2003, but that is not to say that the debate over who is in the ascendancy has been resolved. For many, the Springboks’ tactics in the 15-6 win over England in the final were decidedly of northern values.
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/ 19 October 2007
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In many senses, win or lose come Saturday, the Springboks can never quite match that monumental 1995 World Cup victory. Twelve years later, with all the complexities of the professionalism that ensued after that day, the meaning of winning the Cup is entirely different.
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/ 29 September 2007
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Springbok coach Jake White issued Australian rugby with a dare to plunder South Africa’s burgeoning rugby talent as the Wallabies look to boost their shallow player depth ahead of the next World Cup. ”The reality is that not every South African superstar is going to be playing for South Africa,” said White on Friday.