It has been locked away in a safe for almost 30 years but the original player contract for the ‘World Rugby Corporation,’ the £200 million rugby circus that threatened a global breakaway, can now be ...

— -- CAPE TOWN, South Africa-- Green marbles are the focus of the three children's eyes as they flick them along the incline of a rugby pitch in the heart of the Masiphumelele Township which lies ...

CAPE TOWN, South AfricaCAPE TOWN, South Africa — Hannes Strydom, a player on South Africa’s revered 1995 Rugby World Cup-winning team, has died in a car crash, the South African Rugby Union said ...

SA Rugby CEO Rian Oberholzer says it would be unrealistic to expect World Rugby to bring the Rugby World Cup back to South Africa.

Ellis Park, a symbol of South Africa's emergence from the apartheid era, will now play a major part in hosting the biggest sports event ever to be played in Africa. In 1995, the sight of Nelson ...

Rugby union was declared an open sport on 26 August 1995, a couple of months after South Africa had won the third edition of the World Cup. It represented a huge change for the players and coaches in ...

A year out from the 1995 Rugby World Cup, Os du Randt was a 21-year-old diesel mechanic. He did not have the faintest clue that months later he would be wearing a World Cup-winners medal. How did he ...

A key member of the Springboks side who lifted the 1995 Rugby World Cup trophy, Small scored 20 tries in 47 tests between 1992 and 1997. His final try came in his last match in Green and Gold against ...

It was the image that defined South Africa’s seismic shift. President Nelson Mandela wearing the green Springbok jersey to greet victorious captain Francois Pienaar after South Africa won the 1995 ...

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