The Höerskool Swartland hosts its third rugby festival in Malmesbury on Thursday 12 and Saturday 14 July 2012. The event, seen as providing 1st XVs with ideal preparation for the third term – which commences the following week – has established a loyal following around the Cape. However, this year three overseas schools will also...
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Paarl Gym weathered a determined first-half effort by visitors Boland Landbou to coast home by a somewhat flattering 38-13 margin in their WP Super League A fixture on Saturday 16 June. As late as ten minutes into the second half this was still anybody’s game at 12-6 to the hosts, but a touchdown by tearaway flank...
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The last Saturday of the second term in the Western Province sees all eight of the Premier A big boys in action against each other. Paarl Boys’ High visit Paul Roos (to be televised live), Paarl Gim host Boland Landbou, Wynberg welcome SACS and Bishops amble the few hundred metres to fierce rivals Rondebosch, the...
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Although hosts Boland Landbou staged a spirited fightback in the last ten minutes, they were unable to avoid a 10-20 defeat at the hands of Paarl Boys’ High at the Farm on Saturday. Doomsayers who predicted a soggy field were made to eat their words as the magnificent Paardeberg Field, scarified and relaid at the...
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The three top attractions in and around the Mother City on Saturday 9 June 2012 see Boland Landbou host Paarl Boys’ High, SACS enter the lair of fearsome Paarl Gim and Wynberg leave Lovers Walk for Bishops. The weather looks set to be a factor, the strong cold front that moved in on Wednesday evening...
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It is doubtful whether a single person in the huge crowd assembled for this intriguing town versus country derby could possibly have foreseen that the Streeptruie would thump Bishops 80-5 on a lovely warm winter’s day at Brug Street. Trying to describe the carnage involved in this twelve-try-to-one rout is not easy. Bishops appeared to have...
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