antelope and the national animal of South Africa. The team has represented South African Rugby Union in international rugby union since 30 July 1891, when...

1992 as the South African Rugby Football Union, from the merger of the South African Rugby Board and the non-racial South African Rugby Union (SACOS)...

The South African African Rugby Board (later renamed the South African Rugby Association) was the body that governed black African South African rugby union...

March 1992 the non-racial South African Rugby Union and the South African Rugby Board were merged to form the South African Rugby Football Union. The unified...

separately during South Africa under Apartheid. On 23 March 1992 the non-racial South African Rugby Union (SARU) and the South African Rugby Board (SARB) were...

South Africa national rugby union team players hold several international records. Several players from the South Africa national rugby union team have...

former pole vaulter, holds the African record and only African in the "6 metres club" Schalk Brits, professional rugby player Zola Budd, former track...

is listed as captain number 13 by the South African Rugby Annual, the official yearbook of the South African Rugby Union. 2 ^ Felix and Morné du Plessis...

South African Rugby Board and the mainly black South African Rugby Union). In March 1992 these were formally combined to form the South African Rugby...

repression. In 2022, South Africa placed sixth out of 48 sub-Saharan African countries on the Ibrahim Index of African Governance. South Africa scored well in...

by the South African Rugby League. The sport has long struggled in South Africa due to traditional schism dispute over professionalism in rugby and the...

The Ireland and South Africa rugby union teams have a rivalry dating back to 1906. The Springboks of South Africa dominated their early meetings, with...

as the South African Rugby Union. SARU's predecessor was the South African Coloured Rugby Football Board, founded in 1897 during South Africa's British...

South Africa national rugby union team dates back to 1891, when the British Lions first toured South Africa where they played against South African representative...

Allende, rugby player 7 December – JP Jonck, rugby player 10 December – Gugu Gumede, actress 24 February – John Charles Daly, South African-born journalist...

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of Gallo Record Company. The Munitions Production Board is formed in order to develop South African self-sufficiency in the manufacturing of arms. Neville...

series of 1963. Prior to 1972, South African teams were racially selected, organised by the whites-only South African Rugby Board. Australia then supported...

Natal Parks Board starts buying up farms to form the Itala Game Reserve. Michael Lapsley, an Anglican priest, arrives in South Africa. African and Arab states...

1889 South African Rugby Board Trophy was the first domestic rugby union competition held in South Africa. It took place after the South African Rugby Board...

19 people are killed and 220 injured. 23 – The South African Air Force retaliates by attacking African National Congress facilities in the suburb of Matola...

Apartheid (/əˈpɑːrt(h)aɪt/ ə-PART-(h)yte, especially South African English: /əˈpɑːrt(h)eɪt/ ə-PART-(h)ayt, Afrikaans: [aˈpart(ɦ)ɛit] ; transl. "separateness"...

begins a fact-finding tour to investigate racial discrimination in South African sport. 14 – The local community at Soekmekaar resists forced removal...

Solomons, South African football player 20 January – Ian Syster, long-distance runner (d. 2004) 30 January – Kaya Malotana, former rugby player & tv rugby analyst...

Cameron Michael, actor and singer. 29 December – Brendan Venter, rugby player. The South African Railways places the first of twenty Class 6E1, Series 1 electric...

in South Africa, the South African rugby bodies were divided along racial lines: The South African Rugby Board (SARB) for whites, The South African Rugby...

Mandela, the President of South Africa, wearing a Springboks rugby shirt and cap, presented the Webb Ellis Cup to the South African captain François Pienaar...

in the Transvaal. 9-14 – The South African Defence Force's Operation Super takes place. 14 – A bomb explodes at the African National Congress headquarters...

The South African national rugby sevens team competes in the World Rugby Sevens Series, the Rugby World Cup Sevens, the Summer Olympic Games and the Commonwealth...

from the South African Coloured Rugby Football Board (SACRFB) in the 1960s to affiliate with the whites-only South African Rugby Board (SARB). The SACRFB...