News on Cape Town

Saracens plan Biarritz Euro clash in Cape Town

2011-07-22T19:30:27Z

English Premiership champions Saracens confirmed on Friday that they want to host next year's European Cup match with French side Biarritz in South Africa.

Media reports earlier Friday said that the north London club, who signed South Africa captain John Smit this month, were looking to play January...

Rugby scrum-half Januarie quits Test scene

2011-06-24T08:30:28Z

Western Stormers scrum-half Ricky Januarie withdrew from the South Africa 2011 Rugby World Cup preliminary squad Friday and announced his retirement from international rugby union.

The 29-year-old was a surprise inclusion at the expense of Sarel Pr...

Stormers crush dismal Rebels with five tries

2011-06-03T13:30:33Z

South Africa's Western Stormers overpowered the Melbourne Rebels 40-3 to march into the Super 15 top two in Melbourne on Friday.

The Cape Town franchise won their third match of a four-match Australasian tour by an emphatic five tries to nil to consolidate ...

Stormers open up to sink Sharks

2011-04-30T17:30:21Z

Western Stormers closed the gap behind Super 15 leaders Auckland Blues to one point after a 32-12 triumph against Coastal Sharks Saturday in a South African derby at Newlands.

It was the second success within four weeks for the Cape Town franchise...

Rugby must join soccer's party to pay for stadiums

2010-10-22T12:51:17Z

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa must persuade its top rugby teams to use the new World Cup stadiums if the impressive infrastructure is to remain sustainable, top local officials have said.

But while the world champion Springboks are set to play ...

French rugby team call for one last effort against Argentina

2010-06-25T23:15:46Z

The summer may have ended in shame and disaster for France's football team but the country's rugby players are determined to end their season on a high with a win over Argentina on Saturday.

It has been a long season for France's top players who won the Six Nations Grand Slam before Toulouse and Biarritz went on to battle it out for the European Cup in the final in Danny Jordaan, the 2010 South Africa World Cup supremo, said the future use of two stadiums built specially for the tournament hinged on their also becoming rugby union grounds.

"We need to make the stadiums viable...The central issue is whether rugby will move to the new stadiums. I think they will. Their stad...

MacDonald out of South Africa tour

2010-10-21T10:20:12Z

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South Africa Tourist Killed

2010-12-08T02:30:25Z

Father of murdered Swedish woman, Anni Dewani, Vinod Hindochain, second from left, in the High Court in Cape Town South Africa, Tuesday, Dec 7, 2010. A man convicted for her murder, Zola Tonga, says that her British husband,...

South Africa Pope Condoms Reaction

2010-11-23T03:30:36Z

A giant poster that promotes condom use is seen on a building, as workers, left, clean window's, in the city of Cape Town, South Africa, Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. Some Catholic believers in the Americas greeted Pope Benedict XVI's comments on condoms as a sign that the church was stepping into the modern debate in the fight agai...

South Africa Mandela Soccer USA

2010-11-18T14:44:35Z

In this photo supplied by the Nelson Mandela Foundation former South African President Nelson Mandela, second row third from right, poses for a photograph with the South African soccer team in Johannesburg Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010. The South African Davide Somma, right, fights for the ball against USA's Eric Lichaj, right, during the Nelson Mandela Challenge at Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010.(AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)

USA's Robbie Findley, left, fights for the ball against South African Sangweni Siyabonga, right, during the Nelson Mandela Challenge at Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010.(AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)...