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For some leading South African schools, the road this Easter leads to St John’s College<\/strong>, in Johannesburg, as teams from far and wide across the country and beyond its borders prepare to take each other on over the course of three days of exciting rugby, from 28 March to 1 April.<\/p>\nIt’s the 27th time that the prestigious Houghton school has hosted the event, which brings together some of the best rugby talent in southern Africa.<\/p>\n
It also provides the participants with one last opportunity to settle on their best lineups ahead of the start of league action when the second term commences.<\/p>\n
Some big names – Boland Landbou<\/strong>, Ho\u00ebrskool Noordheuwel<\/strong>, Maritzburg College<\/strong>, Hilton College<\/strong>, Kingswood College, SACS<\/strong> and Bethlehem Voortrekker<\/strong> – will take to Burger Field<\/strong>, flanked by the tiers of the Owen Nkumane Terrace<\/strong>, below the imposing and beautiful school buildings.<\/p>\n Follow the St John’s Easter Rugby Festival action live on SuperSport Schools<\/a> Google Play Store<\/strong> \ud83d\udcf2: SuperSport Schools \u2013 Apps on Google Play<\/a><\/span> There is also the exciting Golden Lions Invitational XV<\/strong>, a team which consists of top talent from schools around Gauteng.<\/p>\n The lineup also features Falcon College<\/strong>, who have made the trip south from Zimbabwe to test their abilities against leading South African schools.<\/p>\n The hosts, St John’s College, will kick off their festival fixtures with a showdown against Kingswood College, from Makhanda, in the main game on the opening day. In another exciting clash, Boland Landbou and Maritzburg College will do battle under lights in the match preceding the St John’s game.<\/p>\n Nelspruit<\/strong> faces Bethlehem Voortrekker on day one, while fleet-footed Noordheuwel kick off their challenge against the unpredictable Lions XV. Falcon College will be tested by St David’s Marist Inanda<\/strong> in their opener.<\/p>\n SACS<\/strong> takes on Graeme College<\/strong>. The Cape Town school has played some fine rugby early in the season, but their goal-kicking has been their Achilles heel. If they can get that right, they’ll be tough to beat.<\/p>\n Hilton College, convincing winners over Grey High<\/strong> earlier in the week, at the Bishops 175 Rugby Festival, tackle St Benedict’s College<\/strong> in their opener.<\/p>\n Fixtures<\/strong><\/p>\n Thursday, 28 March<\/strong><\/p>\n 12:30<\/strong> \u2013 Falcon College vs St David’s Marist Inanda Saturday, 30 March\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n 08:20<\/strong> \u2013 Bethlehem Voortrekker vs Golden Lions XV Monday, 1 April<\/strong><\/p>\n 08:30<\/strong> \u2013 Graeme College vs St Benedict’s College For some leading South African schools, the road this Easter leads to St John’s College, in Johannesburg, as teams from far and wide across the country and beyond its borders prepare to take each other on over the course of three days of exciting rugby, from 28 March to 1 April. It’s the 27th […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n13:40<\/strong> \u2013 Ho\u00ebrskool Nelspruit vs Voortrekker
\n14:50<\/strong> \u2013 Noordheuwel vs Golden Lions XV
\n16:00<\/strong> \u2013 Graeme College vs SACS
\n17:10<\/strong> \u2013 Hilton College vs St Benedict’s College
\n19:10<\/strong> \u2013 Boland Landbou vs Maritzburg College
\n20:20<\/strong> \u2013 St John’s College vs Kingswood College<\/p>\n
\n09:30<\/strong> \u2013 Falcon College vs St Benedict’s College
\n10:40<\/strong> \u2013 Graeme College vs St David’s Marist Inanda
\n11:50<\/strong> \u2013 Kingswood College vs Noordheuwel
\n14:10<\/strong> \u2013 St John’s College vs Ho\u00ebrskool Nelspruit
\n15:20<\/strong> \u2013 Maritzburg College vs SACS
\n16:30<\/strong> \u2013 Hilton College vs Boland Landbou<\/p>\n
\n09:40<\/strong> \u2013 Maritzburg College vs Golden Lions XV
\n10:50<\/strong> \u2013 Hans Moore vs Boland Landbou
\n12:00<\/strong> \u2013 Kingswood College vs St David’s Marist Inanda
\n14:00<\/strong> \u2013 St John’s College vs Falcon College (Zim)
\n15:10<\/strong> \u2013 Ho\u00ebrskool Nelspruit vs Hilton College
\n16:20<\/strong> \u2013 Noordheuwel vs Bethlehem Voortrekker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"