{"id":43483,"date":"2024-04-29T10:29:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T08:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=43483"},"modified":"2024-04-29T10:29:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T08:29:41","slug":"historic-kimberley-boys-high-fields-to-host-u14-wildeklawer-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=43483","title":{"rendered":"Historic Kimberley Boys&#8217; High fields to host u14 Wildeklawer matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-33524 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/SSS-Takealot.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-28235\" src=\"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Absa-Wildeklawer-1-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Absa-Wildeklawer-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Absa-Wildeklawer-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Absa-Wildeklawer-1.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The City of Diamonds, Kimberley, is ready to put its best foot forward as it prepares to host one of the biggest schoolboy rugby tournaments in the world this week.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the country&#8217;s top u14 sides will also lock horns over the coming week with most of the matches being decided on Kimberley Boys&#8217; High&#8217;s C-field. It is not an unlikely place for future Springboks to take their first steps.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kimberley Boys&#8217; High<\/strong> has produced the sixth most Springboks since South Africa&#8217;s first test in 1891 against the British Isles. Yes, the last Springbok from the school played their last test in 1961 against France.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting, is that the halfback-pairing for the test that ended in a 0-all draw of <strong>Dick Lockyear<\/strong> and <strong>Ian Kirkpatrick<\/strong> both matriculated from Kimberley Boys&#8217; High. It was also both of their last test matches.<\/p>\n<p>Kimberley Boys&#8217; High has produced 23 Springboks over the years. Kirkpatrick&#8217;s sister, Rhoda (also a hockey Springbok), married Dick Lockyear. Probably South Africa&#8217;s most famous female serial killer <strong>Daisy de Melker<\/strong> was married to Springbok and former old boy <strong>Syd de Melker<\/strong> before she was convicted of murdering her son.<\/p>\n<p>But enough with the history lesson and back to the rugby.<\/p>\n<p>The main match of the opening day will be between <strong>Paarl Boys&#8217; High<\/strong> and the Afrikaanse Ho\u00ebr Seunskool of Pretoria. Boishaai will face Durban High School on Saturday in their second encounter, while Affies will lock horns with <strong>Oakdale Landbou<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Garsfontein<\/strong> has also proved to have a powerful u14 group this year and will face <strong>Stellenberg<\/strong> and <strong>Grey College<\/strong> in their two encounters in Kimberley.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Die Bepalings | u14 Wildeklawer 2024\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>DAY 1 | 2 May 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[ninja_tables id=&#8221;43482&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>DAY 2 | 4 May 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[ninja_tables id=&#8221;43485&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Diamonds, Kimberley, is ready to put its best foot forward as it prepares to host one of the biggest schoolboy rugby tournaments in the world this week. Some of the country&#8217;s top u14 sides will also lock horns over the coming week with most of the matches being decided on Kimberley Boys&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43483","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\/43483","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}