When planning a visit to a new country, the first thing you are likely to do is to buy a guidebook on the place. Johan claassen, western transvaal played some magnificent rugby and actually took the all blacks on at their own game driving in the forwards and putting the ball behind the tourists with skilful tactical kicking. It was precipitated by sir theophilus shepstone who annexed the south african republic transvaal republic for the british in 1877. The story of the awb of south africa, by arthur kemp. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. The welsh academicals rugby club was established in 1927 in the mining community of mountain ash, deep in the cynon valley of south wales. The blue bulls rugby union also operates a super rugby franchise known simply as the bulls. The highwater mark of a dominant era in south african rugby for western province, their run of consecutive currie cup titles would come to an end the following year as northern transvaal reclaimed the crown, but nothing can be taken away from the team of the 1980s. Unions that gained independence from transvaal are western transvaal currently the leopards in 1920, northern transvaal currently the blue bulls in 1938, and eastern transvaal currently the pumas in 1948. There were two notable firsts the first currie cup final and transvaal s first victory over western province at newlands. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. A history of sharks v western province currie cup finals in that maiden season only four teams took part western province, griqualand west, transvaal and eastern province. The mclook rugby collection all blacks in transvaal.
Steve biko organised several of his outlawed clandestine black consciousness meetings around matches in black townships in the transvaal, the eastern province and the western cape. Select books was established in 1986, and deals in rare, out of print and new books on a wide range of subjects relating to southern africa. South africa the history of rugby by parker, mushtak new. The falcons pty ltd sits with a board made up of the commercial and community annexes of rugby in the falcons region. For the cricket competition originally known as the currie cup, see sunfoil series steeped in history and tradition, the currie cup dates back to 1891. This book gives us the history of rugby union, with mentions of soccer football, gaelic football, u. The dutch began to settle in the southern tip of africa from 1652 but it was only with the arrival of permanent british control in 1806 that the economy began to prosper and cultural and political power grew and extended its influence into the region. Transvaal won the last tournament before the second world war in 1939. Transvaal historical province, south africa britannica. The competition ran for three years from 1993 to 1995 and was the predecessor of super 12 and super 14, now known as super rugby. The first rugby union match in argentina was played in 1873, the game having been brought to argentina by british immigrants. The cult of manliness that resulted centred on the public schools and the universities of oxford and cambridge. The competition had its humble beginnings as an interprovince competition in 1884, but when the south african rugby board was founded in 1889 it decided to organize a national.
The tswana of the western transvaal and eastern kalahari before 1820 fred morton department of history, university of botswana, private bag ub 00703, gaborone, botswana email. Football, rugby league and aussie rules when their history impacts the history of union. But 35 years ago, the team went to the country under. The lions lost their opening fixture against western transvaal and were also beaten by eastern province and border later in the tour. The british and irish lions go to south africa for one of the toughest series in rugby union. Eugene ney terreblanche was born on 31 january 1944 in the dry western transvaal, and was killed the 3rd april 2010 in ventersdorp, at his farm, by two of his black workers.
In 1899, four clubs in argentinas capital, buenos aires, joined together to form the river plate rugby football union. History of transvaal the transvaal rugby union was founded in 1889, which makes it the 4th oldest rugby union in south africa. Buy south africa and the transvaal war, volume v by louis creswicke ebook online at lulu. The games virtues were promoted by books such as thomas hughess tom browns school days 1857. They draw their players from the north west province. History the western transvaal rugby union had its origin from the transvaal rugby union in 1920 when it became the 10th member of senior rugby unions forming the south african rugby landscape. The new team was named northern transvaal and donned light blue jerseys with a red barberton daisy emblem. Buy south africa and the transvaal war by louis creswicke online at alibris. Founded in 1883, the team has won multiple titles, a record of 34 currie cup titles including the inaugural competition, the vodacom cup, the absa nite series, and the lion cup. From proud days when the rugby team from johannesburg was known as transvaal and could sweep all before their path in south africa, the new team, the golden lions have turned their fans against them, fired their coach and the administrators are making strange statements. The team as it is known today has its beginnings in 1938 when the then northern transvaal rugby union broke away from the transvaal rugby football union to gain status as an independent rugby union. Select books is a founder member of the the southern african book dealers association sabda. It was also not the first springbok team that went unbeaten through australia the 1956 springboks also didnt lose one of its 6 matches in australia.
Western province vs transvaal, a bit of currie cup history. Western transvaal rugby statistics welcome to the default page for western transvaal rugby statistics. For a prize they received a silver cup donated by the south african rugby board, now displayed at the sa rugby museum in cape town. Argentina national rugby union team project gutenberg self. South africa and the transvaal war creswicke, louis on. Welcome to the default page for western transvaal rugby statistics. Dresie and casie, developmentally disabled twins, by roger ballen, western transvaal, south africa, 1993 2953x2953. Granted also the fact that australian rugby was pretty weak in 1971 but rugby in australia had shown remarkable progress since 1956. Oosthuizen who played currie cup rugby for western transvaal, northern transvaal and transvaal, played nine tests at prop for the springboks between 1981 and 1984. That was the last time western province lost a final at newlands. The first of the books, more than a game, is by a cape town journalist, mogamad allie. We see the origin of rugby union and of soccer as each emerged from the myriad local rules popular in great britain in the nineteenth century.
My first big match was in 1974 or 1975 western transvaal against western province at olienpark. Despite the severe economic depression of the time, great sacrifices were made to allow students to reach their full potential, both academically and also on the rugby field. It is long overdue, coming 195 years after the first recorded game of cricket in this country was played at the green point common, cape town, in 1808. It was a historic occasion the last time western province and the then transvaal met in the currie cup final back in 1986.
The first currie cup final was played in 1939, at newlands when transvaal beat western province. Rugby football soon became one of the most significant sports in the promotion of english and, later, british imperial manliness. By 100,000bc the san people had settle in southern africa. Welcome to the default page for eastern transvaal rugby statistics. It was precipitated by sir theophilus shepstone who annexed the south african republic transvaal. Many parts of this article are from the book victory or violence. Find quality books on rugby available to buy, or sell your own online. His previous books include rugby s great split, rugby league in twentieth century britain, and a social history of english rugby union, each of which won the aberdare prize for sports history book of the year. Revised march 20 abstract this paper suggests that our appreciation of tswana history in the. The limpopo river marked its border with botswana and zimbabwe to the north, while the vaal river marked its boundary with orange free state province to the south. Free state western province blue bulls eastern province school of rugby previous teams school of rugby. Krugers departure from south africa, with a summarised account of the guerilla war to march 1901 of louis creswickes south africa and the transvaal war, published in 1901.
Robert owen loftus versfeld, after which the stadium in pretoria is named, was a lifetime member of the transvaal rugby football union. Western province were leading 98 and time was up when hansie brewis, the northern transvaal flyhalf, kicked the ball downfield, probably in desperation. History transvaal 199395 the super 10 was a rugby union football tournament featuring ten teams from australia, new zealand, south africa, tonga, and western samoa. The original participating unions were western province, griqualand west, transvaal and eastern province. Luiperds is a south african rugby union team that participates in the annual currie cup tournament, currently playing in the first division.
The currie cup is one of the oldest rugby competitions, with the first games played in 1889 but it was only in 1892 that it became officially known as the currie cup. A more formal and perhaps political and equally commendable book is that of historian and former western province cricketer prof andre odendaals btyond the tryline and the story of an african game, where he documents the vital and uphill role played by black sports administrators and athletes in the history of south african sport. Initially i believed that wp and the blue bulls were the favourites to make this 2014 unofficial final but based on the bondedag result, free state who actually shouldnt ever be underrated but who last played in the final in 2011, are now my pick ahead of the bulls to make the final. In 2009, his social history of english rugby union was. The tournament is regarded as the cornerstone of south africas rugby heritage, and the coveted gold trophy remains the most prestigious prize in south african domestic rugby.
By 1987 there were 28 teams taking part at craven week. Eminent historians have called it a black african game. Steeped in history and tradition, the absa currie cup dates back to 1889 and is one of the oldest rugby competitions in the world. They have a proud history of rugby in eastern gauteng and have produced numerous quality players spanning over a period of 60 years. School of rugby western transvaal 1992 school of rugby. World rugby one hundred years of rugby 18861986 edited by don rutherford. The team is governed by the golden lions rugby union glru, and was originally known as transvaal after transvaal province, before changes to the political landscape in. It was the first clash between the british and the transvaal boers. School of rugby is a schools rugby website which covers schoolsrugby as well as junior rugby from around south africa. The golden lions currently known as the xerox golden lions for sponsorship reasons is a south african professional rugby union team based in johannesburg, south africa who compete in the annual currie cup and vodacom cup. Western province is a south african rugby union team based in newlands, cape town, that participates in the annual currie cup and vodacom cup tournaments. The second team under management of basil kenyon played 5 matches in september 1995 against western transvaal, north eastern districts, border, the 1955 british and irish lions and northern transvaal.
The second final includes the most memorable faux pas in the history of currie cup finals. To this day, they are the only side to have played and won five consecutive currie cup finals. Bennie osler who dominated provincial rugby in sa from 1925 to 1936. Transvaal 4, natal and western province 3, eastern province 1. Click the image above to purchase memorabilila for western province v transvaal 1991 or the link below to browse our rugby memorabilia. The union was formed in 1920 and was originally called western transvaal. South africa and the transvaal war, volume v by louis.
Examples of this include the blue bulls formerly northern transvaal, which governs rugby in pretoria now part of gauteng as well as limpopo province and the golden lions formerly transvaal formed in 1889. South africa and the transvaal war by louis creswicke alibris. This page is dedicated to the legends of transvaal rugby. Transvaal gauteng have won the title outright 25 times, natalkwazulunatal 21, western province 18, orange free statefree state 3, eastern province 2, easterns and kimberley 1.
It was the game kirsten got injured and after which he stopped playing rugby to focus on. The first tournament was held in kimberley and was won by western province. It was the lions second tour after world war ii and the first to south africa after that war. The 1982 currie cup was the 44th edition of the currie cup, the premier annual domestic rugby union competition in south africa. Browse the worlds largest ebookstore and start reading today on the web, tablet, phone, or ereader. The tournament was won by western province for the 23rd time. South africa currie cup castle cupsupersport series. From the foundation of cape colony to the boer ultimatum of 9th oct. Business, international general interest government apartheid rugby football demographic aspects history.
Pretoria, historical sources, transvaal hotel, visitors books, war correspondents, winston churchill introduction. The first boer war also known as the transvaal war, was fought from december 16, 1880 until march 23, 1881. Evaluations of premier transvaal diamond mining company. The story of an african game is a groundbreaking book, the first to cover in detail the history and experiences of black african cricketers in south africa. That same year i saw peter kirsten playing for wp against transvaal at ellispark. Dresie and casie, developmentally disabled twins, by roger.
School of rugby is a schools rugby website which covers schools rugby as well as junior rugby from around south africa. The wp victories over transvaal and natal, in that year, were in essence accomplished because of the geniality and kicking ability of osler. Western province dominated local south african rugby during the early 1980s. He made his test debut against ireland in cape town in 1981 and scored one test try, against south america in pretoria in 1982. It is not an attempt at a full history of black cricket in the western province, but is rather a history of nonracial cricket there, under the auspices of the western province cricket board. Lists 167 books from southern africa, mostly out of print. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. Comprehensive coverage of all your major sporting events on, including live video streaming, video highlights, results, fixtures, logs, news, tv broadcast schedules and more. See more ideas about rugby, south african rugby and british lions. Orlando pirates football club was founded in 1937 and was originally based in orlando, soweto and kaizer chiefs were founded. The previous currie cup had been in 1936, played on a league system, but in 1939 the 12 provinces were divided into two sections, north and south.
In 2006 the valke were the vodacom cup champions, the first cup won in the history of the union. Rwc winning wallaby coachs radical, wrecking ball suggestions for saving rugby. From the commencement of the war to the battle of colenso, 15th dec. Sothotswana peoples began to form large chiefdoms in southern and western transvaal and in botswana, living in large central settlements and ruled by a chief with religious and political authority advised by a council. The mclook rugby collection a personal collection that tells the story of springbok rugby. Craven week unofficial winners 19712014 schoolboyrugby.
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