Local unions have reportedly been hit with high costs by South African Rugby to host Springbok Tests taking place in 2024.
World Rugby has revealed that last year's Rugby World Cup in France was the most-watched rugby event of all time, with a 19 per cent increase in viewership from the 2019 tournament in Japan.
Women's rugby continued to grow at all levels in 2023 as a record number of people pulled on their boots or took to the stands to watch a sport supercharged by events on the pitch.
The two South African Sevens teams will both face the USA on the opening day of the HSBC SVNS Cape Town next Saturday.
A decade ago, a number of 20-year-olds joined the SA Rugby Sevens Academy – as it was known at the time – and not too long after joining the set-up in Stellenbosch, engrained their names in the history books of the Springbok Sevens.
President of the South African Rugby Union, Mark Alexander, paid tribute to former Springbok lock Hannes Strydom who passed away in a car accident on Sunday.