Tony McKeever

or You are about to be exposed to South African rugby’s Axis of Evil, its administration, where rules and agreements are made and signed off by SA Rugby and despite their creation, are flouted with impunity, as also the SA Rugby constitution which requires all unions to uphold agreements made at the President’s Council and […]

The man Eddie Jones is either a marvel or a Tasmanian Devil. Born January 30, 1960 in Burnie, Tasmania, of a Japanese mother and an Australian father, Eddie Jones is a rugby union coach and former player. He left the Queensland Reds after their worst position since the inception of the Super 12, was the […]

On Wednesday SA Rugby’s President Oregan Hoskins received a written demand from one of South Africa’s leading labour attorneys, Jacques Jansen of Jansens Inc, advising SA Rugby that they have received a mandate from personnel and players formerly of the Southern Spears, to recover unpaid salaries, leave pay, notice pay and outstanding bonuses from SA […]

Yesterday I overhead Sir Clive Woodward, former English rugby team coach of the 2003 winning World Cup fame, tell Matt Dawson, most capped English scrum half with 51 games, to remember T-CUP and I thought what is this? Earl Grey? Chamomile? Our Rooibos? Personally, I am more familiar with a C-cup than a T-CUP and […]

The 2009 edition of the Super 14 kicks off in Dunedin on Friday February 13, with the Highlanders hosting the Brumbies. The official draw was released on the weekend. The 94-match tournament will end with the final set for May 30. 2009 SUPER 14 SCHEDULE: Week 1 1. Friday 13 February Highlanders v Brumbies Dunedin […]

Monday — Dust-up between Peter de Villiers and Jake White over the non-availability of six Springboks for the Jake White-coached Barbarians side against Australia on December 3 at Twickenham Tuesday — Luke Watson hearing at SA Rugby in Newlands, with a possible demonstration in the parking lot and a gathering of the top ten rugby […]

Here comes trouble — big trouble — as in, “Come in Houston we have a problem.” You remember the Sports Indaba in Durban three weeks ago and then the brouhaha about the Springbok and who owns the trademark, which caught SA Rugby napping and which gave rise to such high-pitched shrill screaming from both sides? […]

This last Monday afternoon I had the absolute and distinct pleasure of being invited by BDO to listen to an hour and a half of Clem Sunter, going on about scenario planning, terrorist attacks, the collapse of the economy, the rise of the economy and the future prospects of South Africa. If you haven’t attended […]

Rugby in South Africa is at war with itself and it is tearing the game apart. Given that the game of rugby is intended to bind us South Africans, be we rich or poor, or black or white, and to develop fine sportsman that become role models in the community, it is most uncomfortable to […]

The furious and passionate debate of whether to cull the Springbok, or not, has had one reading nearly every single one of the articles for and against the existence of the Springbok. It has been exhausting, but most of all it has been painful to observe how South Africans have turned on each other and […]

The Krokodil is well known for his Crossing the Rubicon speech in 1985 in which Botha was widely expected to announce new reforms. Instead, he refused to give in to pressure for concessions to the black population including the release of Nelson Mandela. His defiance of international opinion in this speech led to further isolation […]

One sometimes has to wonder, open mouthed, at the myopia of people within rugby administration and their inability to recognise how to be relevant in modern day society in South Africa and the rest of the world, especially when the game of rugby exposes the raw nerves and synapses of the nation. The obsessive, compulsive […]