Vodacom United Rugby Championship

The battle lines will be clearly marked on Saturday when the DHL Stormers host the Vodacom Bulls in their highly anticipated Vodacom United Rugby Championship north-south derby in Cape Town, where the Pretoria outfit will be looking to reduce the gap between themselves and the two top sides on the standings, while the hosts will be desperate to close in on the top eight to improve their playoff chances.

Tournament news

Athlone Stadium in Cape Town will host the opening two rounds of the World Rugby HSBC Sevens Challenger 2025, where the Springbok Women’s Sevens team will start their quest to regain their World Series core team status for next season.

News

Match official appointments for the next few days have been made with Morne Ferreira in action in the Vodacom URC derby in Cape Town, while Marius Jonker and Marius van der Westhuizen are on Six Nations duty.

Statement

The South African Rugby Union (SARU) will appoint a financial institution to review rugby’s financial ecosystem, the union’s membership decided at a General Council meeting in Johannesburg on Thursday.

News

Their second alignment camp ticked a couple of boxes for the Springbok Women coaching staff and players, with assistant coach Laurian Johannes-Haupt emphasising some good outcomes from the planned objectives at the conclusion of the three-day camp in Pretoria.