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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) –  South Africa’s two-time Rugby World Cup-winning Springbok captain Siya Kolisi has been named in TIME Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world for 2024

©- - 19 april 2024 - 12:41:19 - thread (205 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa’s rugby hero Siya Kolisi has been nominated for the Laureus World Comeback of the Year Award, while the national World Cup winning squad has been nominated for Team of the Year

©- - 29 february 2024 - 10:19:33 - thread (273 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa’s Rugby World Cup champions, the Springboks, on Thursday began a four-day nationwide tour in Pretoria, with President Cyril Ramaphosa welcoming them back from France where they clinched the title

©- - 02 november 2023 - 09:28:53 - thread (218 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa’s star rugby player Bongi Mbonambi could miss Saturday's Rugby World Cup final against New Zealand after he allegedly used a racial slur against England flank Tom Curry in Saturday's semi-final in Paris

©- - 23 october 2023 - 12:00:19 - thread (180 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – There is major interest in the rugby hero Siya Kolisi’s official biography which unpacks his battles with poverty and alcohol before he became South Africa’s first black national rugby captain

©- - 05 october 2021 - 12:58:28 - thread (347 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Burkina Faso Rugby Union will host this year’s Rugby Africa Cup Repechage in the capital, Ouagadougou, from 5 to 13 June, with four teams taking part in a round robin tournament over three match days, the sport governing body, Rugby Africa, confirmed in Cape Town on Thursday

©- - 22 april 2021 - 10:13:29 - thread (437 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Police have confirmed the death of Muzilikazi Manyike, a former South African Schools rugby football captain who had a glittering career ahead of him

©- - 16 february 2021 - 14:27:20 - thread (147 words)


Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Kenya Rugby Union has received 5,000 Euros from Rugby Afrique Solidarity Fund to help vulnerable players cope with the negative effects of coronavirus

©- - 30 august 2020 - 17:21:08 - thread (115 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African trade union Solidarity has taken aim over Sports Minister Nathi Mthethwa saying he has no right to intimidate or victimise players if they do not back the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement

©- - 20 august 2020 - 11:20:36 - thread (339 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The Springboks have won the prestigious World Team of the Year award at the 2020 Laureus Awards in Berlin

©- - 18 february 2020 - 11:01:07 - thread (185 words)


Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian Maha Zaoui, a member of the Tunisian Rugby Federation (FTR), has been elected general manager of female rugby within the African Rugby Confederation, the FTR said in a press release published Tuesday

©- - 11 february 2020 - 18:22:03 - thread (117 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – There could be a cherry on top of South Africa’s rugby captain Siya Kolisi’s fairytale year as he has been nominated for the BBC Sports Star of the Year award

©- - 11 december 2019 - 12:55:51 - thread (248 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa’s Rugby World Cup winning captain Siya Kolisi on Wednesday night fulfilled a life-long dream when he was invited to Anfield by Premier League giants Liverpool

©- - 28 november 2019 - 11:06:28 - thread (293 words)


Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - Ghanaian men's 15-a-side rugby team qualified for the group stage of the 2020 Rugby Africa Cup, after their 36-25 victory over Botswana on in Elmina on Saturday

©- - 24 november 2019 - 14:28:02 - thread (106 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Hundreds of thousands of people on Monday took to the streets of Cape Town and its surrounding suburbs and townships as the triumphant Springbok rugby team ended their nationwide tour showing off the World Cup trophy

©- - 11 november 2019 - 13:10:50 - thread (398 words)


Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA)  - The Kenyan seven-aside rugby team qualified for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, beating Uganda (29-0) on Saturday at the Rugby Africa Men's Sevens 2019 tournament in South Africa

©- - 10 november 2019 - 11:15:23 - thread (157 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Tens of thousands of jubilant South Africans have lined the streets of Pretoria, Johannesburg and Soweto to salute the Rugby World Cup champions

©- - 07 november 2019 - 11:34:22 - thread (370 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday said the sight of Springbok captain Siyamthanda Kolisi lifting the cup at the Yokohama Stadium in Japan this weekend has filled him with great deal of pride

©- - 04 november 2019 - 14:42:16 - thread (312 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Twenty four years after the historic Mandela Rugby World Cup victory, South Africa’s first black captain on Saturday raised the William Webb Ellis trophy as his nation was crowned rugby world champions again

©- - 02 november 2019 - 13:58:21 - thread (345 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A bar brawl in a small Western Cape town has caused deep divisions across South Africa and raised concerns that it could derail the country’s Rugby World Cup campaign in Japan

©- - 07 october 2019 - 13:24:35 - thread (274 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – History was made on Friday when the Rugby World Cup match between South Africa and Italy was broadcast in space

©- - 04 october 2019 - 12:47:44 - thread (148 words)


Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - The Ivorian Rugby Federation (FIR) on Wednesday announced the appointment of a national technical director, Amon Roger Motchian, and the president of the Young Commission, former international Tidiane Kamara

©- - 11 september 2019 - 15:35:37 - thread (149 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A day after the Human Rights Commission (HRC) ordered a South African man to pay a US$10,000 fine for a racist video rant, it has launched an investigation into one of the country’s top rugby players who has been accused of racially abusing a man last weekend

©- - 30 august 2019 - 09:38:55 - thread (322 words)


Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA)   -   Rugby Africa, the governing body of the African Rugby, will, with the help of World Rugby, on 9-17 August in Johannesburg host the first qualifications to the women Rugby World Cup to be hosted in 2021 in New Zealand, said a communiqué issued and sent to PANA here

©- - 08 august 2019 - 22:39:49 - thread (230 words)


London, United Kingdom(PANA)  -  The president of Ghana Rugby, Herbert Mensah, Wednesday praised Sunda International and GB Foods, main sponsors of the just ended WARS (West African Rugby Series) and the Ghana-Nigeria Presidents’ Cup rugby tournament, for ensuring the success of the event, a press release issued and reaching PANA here said

©- - 07 august 2019 - 23:29:34 - thread (370 words)


Elmina, Ghana (PANA)   -  Nigeria’s Black Stallions beat the Ghana Eagles by 14 points to 12 in the first-ever Ghana-Nigeria Rugby Presidents’ Cup on Saturday in Elmina, some 200km west of the national capital, Accra

©- - 04 august 2019 - 16:44:13 - thread (613 words)


Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - Cote d'Ivoire's 15-man rugby squad will Thursday start preparations for the tri-nation tournament involving teams from Ghana and Nigeria, sports sources told PANA
©- - 18 july 2019 - 14:21:21 - thread (182 words)


Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe national rugby team, Sables, have announced eight debutants in their squad for their ‘Battle of Zambezi’ match-up against Zambia in the Victoria Cup

©- - 12 july 2019 - 10:03:03 - thread (482 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Less than 24 hours after rugby legend James Small suffered a fatal heart attack, Nelson Mandela’s former personal assistant has revealed how the world statesman helped the sportsman turn his life around

©- - 11 july 2019 - 13:03:56 - thread (298 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa’s national rugby star Tendai “Beast” Mtawarira has pulled his autobiography before it hit the book stores after it appears he offended former national coach Pieter De Villiers

©- - 03 july 2019 - 08:31:59 - thread (250 words)


Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe’s Under-20 Women's Rugby Coach Nsikelelo Sibanda says he was not pleased with the homeside following their loss on Wednesday to their South African counterparts in an ongoing series between the two teams

©- - 27 june 2019 - 11:41:26 - thread (364 words)


Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA)   -   The Rugby Africa Cup (RAC), the new competition of Rugby Africa and confederal body of African rugby, will start next November with the 16 best teams of the continent for a qualification to the 2023 World Cup in France

©- - 15 june 2019 - 16:39:54 - thread (548 words)


Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian Khaled Babbou was on Saturday elected the new president of the African Rugby Confederation (rugby Africa), replacing the Moroccan Abdelaziz Bougja

©- - 03 march 2019 - 13:20:37 - thread (155 words)


Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - The confederation of Rugby Africa is organising the first African Rugby summit to be held from 27 February to 2 March in Marrakech, Morocco

©- - 17 february 2019 - 10:48:48 - thread (292 words)


Abidjan, Ivory Coast (PANA) - The African confederation of Rugby unions, Rugby Africa, has approved Côte d'Ivoire's candidacy to host Rugby Zone B Silver Cup tournament in June 2019, according to a communique made available to PANA here on Monday
©- - 24 december 2018 - 15:52:26 - thread (153 words)