South Africa’s inability to go deep into the Champions Cup once again is getting embarrassing after an unfortunate weekend of Round of 16 action saw the Bulls and Stormers crash out.
To be fair to both of those teams, they got stuck in, and the Stormers, in particular, were robbed of victory by “dreadful refereeing decisions,” as former Springbok coach Nick Mallett unambiguously put it.
The weekend started badly when the Sharks’ Challenge Cup campaign ended with less of a bang and more of a whimper. The Durbanites had a strong first half against Connacht but badly fell off the pace in the second.
The Sharks are struggling with injuries, but for a proud club, not to even make the…
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Fun South African Fact: Mandela’s house on Vilakazi Street is now a museum. The man who the street was named after, Dr BW Vilakazi, was a poet, novelist and intellectual. He helped develop the written form of both isiZulu and siSwati and helped put together the isiZulu dictionary.