Whitney Hansen has been appointed head coach of New Zealand’s Black Ferns, the national women’s rugby team, New Zealand Rugby announced on Monday.

New Zealand’s Black Ferns get first female coach since 1994

President of SA Rugby Mark Alexander paid tribute to former Springbok Women captain Lusanda Dumke, who passed away in East London in the early hours of Tuesday morning following a battle with a rare gastric cancer. She was 29.

 SA Rugby pays tribute to Lusanda Dumke

A group of 53 players from 34 high schools in 12 different provincial unions have been invited to SA Rugby’s Under-18 Elite Player Development (EPD) camp for girls, after which the squad will be trimmed down to 26 players that will prepare for two matches against an Under-18 team from the Netherlands.

Ground-breaking internationals lined up for U18 Girls

Springbok Women head coach Swys de Bruin expressed his satisfaction after a wider training squad completed a first alignment camp for the 2026 season in Stellenbosch on Friday.

De Bruin pleased with first alignment camp outcomes

Springbok Women head coach Swys de Bruin and his coaching assistants invited a group of 42 players to a weeklong alignment camp in the Western Cape, with the players arriving at the Stellenbosch Academy of Sport on Sunday.

Springbok Women to assemble for alignment camp

She made her debut for her country at the Rugby Africa Women’s Sevens Cup tournament in Ghana last year and scored a try on debut, but that was just the beginning of the season’s highlights for Springbok Women’s Sevens forward, Leigh Fortuin.

Fortuin looking for further growth and rugby success

Laurian Johannes-Haupt and Zenay Jordaan are in line to complete the World Rugby Level 3 Coaching Course next week in Cape Town.

Top SA women coaches go to the next level

When patients arrive at Netcare Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital’s Level 1 trauma centre, they rarely realise that the caring nurse helping to treat them is also a Springbok rugby player.

SCRUBS TO SCRUMS: The Springbok who saves lives

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