The competition – now in a new guise thanks to the title sponsorship of Pick n Pay, and associate partnership of Vodacom – will see the eight leading teams in the country face each other in a single round of matches, with a grand finale penned down for Saturday, 4 April 2026.
Rugby fans – particularly a growing number of supporters of the women’s game – were keen to see South Africa’s best players return to action after the record-breaking performances of the Springbok Women at the Women’s Rugby World Cup played in England last year.
To add to the anticipation of the new season, one of SA Rugby’s principal partners, Pick n Pay, took on the naming rights of the competition and their…
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Mad Robin
Fun South African Fact: Vilakazi Street in Soweto has been home to two Nobel Peace Prize winners. A tour through Soweto will always stop at Vilakazi Street to reveal a number of heritage sites of great importance to democratic South Africa. Both Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu lived here at some point in their lives. In 1984, Archbishop Desmond Tutu received the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition for his non-violent fight against the apartheid regime. Nine years later in 1993, Nelson Mandela shared the Nobel Peace Prize with then-president F.W. de Klerk as an award for their role in bringing about the peaceful end of apartheid. Nelson Mandela then went on to become South Africa’s first democratically elected president in 1994.
Brick Mooch
I took a trip to South Africa and met a Khoisan woman.
We really clicked.