Vodacom United Rugby Championship

The Vodacom United Rugby Championship returns with a bang this weekend, with the first South African derby on the cards in Gauteng, as well as two mouth-watering clashes in Ireland, a top-of-the-table encounter and a scrap for playoff survival.

Partner News

SA Rugby announced on Thursday that electronics giant Samsung had joined the family of national teams sponsors as the official mobile and consumer electronics partner of the Springboks, Springbok Women, Junior Springboks, Springbok Sevens and Springbok Women’s Sevens – as well as an associate sponsor of the Vodacom United Rugby Championship (URC).

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The Chris Burger Petro Jackson Players’ Fund recently received a welcome shot in the arm when the 15 provincial societies that make up the SA Rugby Referees Association (SARRA) agreed to donate R5,000 each to the Fund, totalling a R75,000 donation, which will assist the Fund in its important work.

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Springbok hooker Johan Grobbelaar said the Boks were bracing themselves for a full-on 80-minute battle against Wales at the Principality Stadium on Saturday in their final match of the season, and admitted that while many would suggest the visitors would enter the match as favourites, they were wary of the challenge the hosts would pose.

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It will be almost four years to the day when a bright-eyed 21-year-old Shilton van Wyk ran onto the pitch at The Sevens Stadium in Dubai, representing the Springbok Sevens for the first time on the international stage.