The Western Province Rugby Football Union has refused to allow Saracens to play their Heineken Cup match against Bairritz at the Cape Town Stadium.
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/ 22 October 2011
Five members of the Springbok World Cup squad have been nominated for Saru’s player of the year award.
Two rugby clubs face expulsion from their league after funds to upgrade fields fail to materialise.
The Springboks were welcomed by throngs of fans as they returned defeated to South Africa, while the race to replace coach P Divvy begins.
The Bok coach named a 24-man squad featuring several players returning from injury rehabilitation for the home leg of the Tri-Nations series.
A more streamlined SA Rugby Union will ensure the sport is run more efficiently, Saru chief executive Jurie Roux said on Thursday.
Springbok lock Andries Bekker has been forced to miss out on the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand to undergo ankle surgery after suffering an injury.
The Boks are expected to leave for the away leg of the Tri-Nations series on Saturday evening, after their plane was forced to return on Friday night.
A plane carrying the South African rugby team to their opening Tri-Nations match in Australia had to turn back after suffering engine failure.
World Cup-winning prop CJ van der Linde and uncapped Sharks lock Gerhard Mostert will be added as cover to the Springbok squad.
The South African Institute for Drug Free Sport has launched an anti-doping initiative after an increase in the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
Lions coach John Mitchell has denied any talks between the union and Saru to include Frans Steyn into their squad ahead of the Rugby World Cup.
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/ 4 February 2011
Absa Bank will be the new official sponsors of the Springboks, the South African Rugby Union (Saru) announced on Thursday.
A tribunal will investigate doping allegations against Springbok rugby players Chiliboy Ralepelle and Bjorn Basson, Saru said on Monday.
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/ 18 November 2009
SA’s rugby boss accepted an apology from his French counterpart over the poor rendition of the South African anthem at last weekend’s Test.
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/ 16 November 2009
The South African Rugby Union has written to the French Rugby Union expressing dismay at the performance of the national anthem on Friday night.
The South African Rugby Union (Saru) delivered its bid to host either the 2015 or 2019 Rugby World Cup to Rugby World Cup Limited in Dublin on Thursday. Saru president Oregan Hoskins announced at a media conference in Johannesburg positive discussions with government had seen the last brick fall into place. ”The government has been […]
The New Zealand and Australian rugby unions said on Friday they were devising an alternative Asia-Pacific competition due to a deadlock with SA.
The Freedom Front Plus wants ANC MP Butana Komphela investigated and prosecuted for corruption and blackmail, it said on Sunday.
With D-Day a little more than three months off, the gloves have come off in Sanzar and the race is on to find some common ground.
The fifth Rugby World Cup Sevens tournament will be played this weekend at a purpose-built stadium in Dubai and South Africa is among the favourites.
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/ 4 November 2008
The president’s council of Saru has resolved to add the national sports emblem of the King Protea to the playing jersey of national rugby teams.
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/ 13 October 2008
The South African Rugby Union on Monday appointed an official to investigate statements allegedly made by one of its players, Luke Watson.
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/ 13 October 2008
The South African Rugby Union has greeted with shock statements attributed to Luke Watson regarding South African rugby.
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/ 11 October 2008
The South African Rugby Union has welcomed a statement by the ANC outlining its formal position on the future of the Springbok emblem.
Rugby’s corporate sponsors and its hallowed symbol the Springbok have come under fire from delegates at the National Sports Indaba in Durban.
The South African Rugby Union (Saru) is in the throes of major restructuring. Last week it sacked Jonathan Stones and Mpumelelo Tshume.
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/ 7 September 2008
Peter de Villiers has threatened to ”give [the job] back to the whites” amid allegations that he had been videotaped engaging in a sex act in public.
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/ 2 September 2008
Saru has had no response to a reward offered for information on a racist attack at Saturday’s Tri-Nations match, a spokesperson said on Tuesday.
Saru has contacted its provincial unions to ask them to intervene following recent incidents of violence at schoolboy rugby matches.
The South African Rugby Union (Saru) announced on Friday it had lifted its restriction on the number of overseas-based players eligible to play for the Springboks. In a statement, Saru said that new Springboks coach Peter de Villiers coach would now be able to pick as many foreign-based players as he liked.
Former Springbok centre and current Sharks coach Dick Muir and Stormers assistant Gary Gold were on Friday named as new South African coach Peter de Villiers’s right-hand men. Muir, who led the Sharks Super 14 team to the final of the southern hemisphere inter-provincial competition last year, will take charge of the Springbok backs.