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21 Jul
Saluting South African Rugby’s leadership
South African Rugby Union CE Jurie Roux delivered the most powerful and poignant of messages to the South African rugby public on all things Springboks, Super Rugby and #BlackLivesMatter, writes Mark Keohane.Roux, composed and...
15 Jul
The British & Irish Lions are the greatest event in world rugby
The British & Irish Lions in South Africa in 2021 is ON. It's official, raves Mark Keohane.The dates and venues all stay the same. Get ready to be rocked with rugby's biggest carnival.It is...
14 May
Enforcing the reality of Bakkies Botha & giving perception the red card
Bakkies Botha was the Enforcer of all things on a rugby field. The legendary Springboks, Bulls and Toulon hardman, who started his career with the Falcons, was the master of his art.Botha had a...
11 Feb
‘Hands off Rassie’, says SA Rugby boss Alexander
South African Rugby Union boss Mark Alexander has told the world it is ‘hands off’ when it comes to Director of Rugby and World Cup-winning coach Rassie Erasmus.Alexander, with the support of his executive...
10 Dec
Why the British & Irish Lions will roar in South Africa in 2021
Mark Keohane, on IOL, writes the British & Irish Lions in South Africa in 2021 won't be a traditional tour but the biggest sporting event in South Africa since the FIFA 2010 Soccer World...
10 Dec
Why South Africans should be rooting for Ian Foster as All Blacks coach
Mark Keohane, writing for IOL, believes it will benefit the Springboks more if Ian Foster is appointed All Blacks coach ahead of Crusaders three-time Super Rugby-winning coach Scott Robertson.South Africa’s four-year reign as world...
16 Nov
Treat Siya’s Boks as mortals & cut them some slack
Life will never be the same for Siya Kolisi and his all-conquering World Champion Rainbow Warriors, writes Mark Keohane in his Independent Media and IOL Keo Corner column, but he urges South Africans to...
26 Oct
Watershed World Cup for South Africa
Mark Keohane, in his Cape Times column, writes that the authentic transformation of the Springboks makes this World Cup campaign the most significant in the history of South African rugby.This World Cup is only...
18 Oct
Bet on the Boks to beat Japan by 20 points
Mark Keohane in his Independent Media and IOL Sport Rugby World Cup daily column, is super confident the Springboks will prove too powerful for host nation Japan in Sunday's final quarter-final.There will be no...
14 Oct
These Springboks are unified & transformed
Mark Keohane, for Independent Media's print publications and IOL Sport, writes that he has never experienced a Springbok team as united as the one at the 2019 Rugby World Cup.I have never experienced a...
09 Oct
Bok brilliance against minnows must not mask failures against All Blacks
Mark Keohane, in his Independent Media and IOL Sport daily World Cup column, writes that as wonderful as it was to watch the Boks destroy minnows like Namibia and Canada, the greater analysis remains...
08 Oct
Referees continue to flounder at Rugby World Cup
Wayne Barnes and Nigel Owens are comfortably the best referees in world rugby. Yet both couldn’t make the most obvious and decisive calls when it came to thuggery over the weekend writes Mark Keohane...