Saturday's Currie Cup action saw the Sharks pick up their first win of the season over the Lions, before the Bulls mounted a superb second-half fightback to down Western Province.
The Bulls have bid farewell to flyhalf Chris Smith who moves on at the end of his contract to join French side Oyonnax.
Bulls boss Jake White is delighted that his co-captain Ruan Nortje has been called up to South Africa's Rugby Championship squad and has no doubt of the value he will add to the Springbok camp.
The Bulls proved too strong for the Cheetahs in Pretoria on Friday as the defending Currie Cup champions fell to their first defeat of the season.
The Bulls made it two from two after their victory over Western Province last weekend with a 52-10 drubbing of the Griffons in a Currie Cup Round Two fixture in Welkom on Sunday.
Ruan Nortje says Loftus and the Bulls have given him purpose and he looks ahead to the exciting years ahead.