Monday, 7 June 2021

Two Jeppe old boys in Springbok squad

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Sbu Nkosi and Wandisile Simelane were included in the 41-man squad from which the Springbok rugby teams to play against the British and Iris...
Sunday, 23 May 2021

Professionalisation of schools rugby - it's not a single story

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 I got involved in a lively twitter debate on the issue of schools becoming rugby academies following a tweet from Jonathan Alexander Smith ...
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Wednesday, 31 March 2021

It's Easter, but there's no Saints Festival this year and that's a great pity

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The Easter rugby festivals were supposed to kick off on Thursday but Covid-19, for the second year in a row, has put paid to that.  I was as...
Sunday, 28 March 2021

The Martin Ledwaba story

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There's been a massive response in the media - mainstream and social - to the departure of Martin Ledwaba from Jeppe Boys last week. His...
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Friday, 12 March 2021

At Jeppe they name things after people

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The news was received at Jeppe High School for Boys a few weeks ago that Dave Watson - an old boy and former parent - had succumbed to Covid...
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Monday, 21 December 2020

Sometimes rugby really is the winner

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As an antidote to all the things I find abhorrent in the way school sport is going, I list some of the good things I've come across in m...
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Friday, 18 December 2020

No cricket this week, so Morgan's spending his birthday at home

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  If it wasn’t for Covid-19 I’d almost certainly be at the Khaya Majola cricket week today watching and reporting on the cream of our under-...