{"id":66343,"date":"2025-03-06T17:18:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T15:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=66343"},"modified":"2025-03-06T17:18:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T15:18:34","slug":"absa-wildeklawer-of-2025-promises-to-be-the-biggest-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=66343","title":{"rendered":"Absa Wildeklawer of 2025 promises to be the biggest yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-28235\" src=\"https:\/\/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 annual <strong>Absa Wildeklawer<\/strong> tournament for 2025 is jumbo packed with schoolboy rugby clashes for the connoisseur.<\/p>\n<p>The main event of the u19 rugby festival will take place from Wednesday, 30 April until Saturday, 3 May.<\/p>\n<p>All the action will be brought live to your screens once again by <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/supersportschools\"><strong>SuperSport Schools<\/strong><\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/supersportschools\">www.supersportschools.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The main match on the opening day will be one of the clashes of 2025 with <strong>Paul Roos Gimnasium<\/strong> taking on the <strong>Afrikaanse Ho\u00ebr Seunskool<\/strong> of Pretoria. The main curtain raiser will be between the hosts, <strong>Diamantveld<\/strong>, and <strong>Waterkloof<\/strong> of Pretoria.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nico Malan<\/strong> of Humansdorp will also make their debut on the opening day as they will take on <strong>Glenwood<\/strong> of Durban.<\/p>\n<p>The main match on the second day will see <strong>Grey College<\/strong> facing <strong>Helpmekaar<\/strong> of Johannesburg. The rugby factory of Bloemfontein&#8217;s second match will be against <strong>Garsfontein<\/strong> on the final day. Both these matches will provide their fair share of fireworks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paarl Gimnasium<\/strong> will have an interesting encounter against <strong>Northwood<\/strong>. Their headmaster, <strong>Paul Viljoen<\/strong>&#8216;s, previous job was as headmaster of Northwood. The Gimmies could be one of the top teams in the country with stars like <strong>Markus Muller<\/strong> (centre) and <strong>Quinton Potgieter<\/strong> (loose forward) in their midst.<\/p>\n<p>Gimmies&#8217; second clash of the tournament will be the main match on the final day against <strong>Durban High School<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Fixtures:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, 30 April 2025\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A-Field\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>19:00 &#8211;<\/strong> Paul Roos Gimnasium vs Affies<br \/>\n<strong>17:30 &#8211;<\/strong> Opening Ceremony<br \/>\n<strong>15:30 &#8211;<\/strong> Diamantveld vs Waterkloof<br \/>\n<strong>14:00 &#8211;<\/strong> Nico Malan vs Glenwood<br \/>\n<strong>12:30 &#8211;<\/strong> Marlow Landbou vs Welkom Gimnasium<br \/>\n<strong>11:00 &#8211;<\/strong> Invitation Final | u19<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, 1 May 2025\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A-Field<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>20:00 &#8211;<\/strong> Grey College vs Helpmekaar<br \/>\n<strong>18:30 &#8211;<\/strong> Maritzburg College vs Jeppe High School for Boys<br \/>\n<strong>17:00 &#8211;<\/strong> Paarl Boys&#8217; High vs Noordheuwel<br \/>\n<strong>15:30 &#8211;<\/strong> Paarl Gimnasium vs Northwood<br \/>\n<strong>14:00 &#8211;<\/strong> Garsfontein vs Oakdale Landbou<br \/>\n<strong>12:30 &#8211;<\/strong> Monument vs Outeniqua<br \/>\n<strong>11:00 &#8211;<\/strong> Durban High School vs Stellenberg<br \/>\n<strong>09:30 &#8211;<\/strong> Boland Landbou vs Framesby<br \/>\n<strong>08:00 &#8211;<\/strong> EG Jansen vs HTS Drostdy<\/p>\n<p><strong>B-Field<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>16:10 &#8211;<\/strong> Ho\u00ebrskool Rustenburg vs Voortrekker<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday, 3 May 2025\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A-Field<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>20:00 &#8211;<\/strong> Paarl Gimnasium vs Durban High School<br \/>\n<strong>18:30 &#8211;<\/strong> Grey College vs Garsfontein<br \/>\n<strong>17:00 &#8211;<\/strong> Paul Roos Gimnasium vs EG Jansen<br \/>\n<strong>15:30 &#8211;<\/strong> Oakdale Landbou vs Jeppe High School for Boys<br \/>\n<strong>14:00 &#8211;<\/strong> Affies vs Boland Landbou<br \/>\n<strong>12:30 &#8211;<\/strong> Maritzburg College vs Diamantveld<br \/>\n<strong>11:00 &#8211;<\/strong> Paarl Boys&#8217; high vs Monument<br \/>\n<strong>09:30 &#8211;<\/strong> Noordheuwel vs Outeniqua<br \/>\n<strong>08:00 &#8211;<\/strong> Waterkloof vs Stellenberg<\/p>\n<p><strong>B-Field\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>16:20 &#8211;<\/strong> Nico Malan vs Northern Barbarians<br \/>\n<strong>15:00 &#8211;<\/strong> Glenwood vs Marlow Landbou<br \/>\n<strong>13:50 &#8211;<\/strong> Northwood vs HTS Drostdy<br \/>\n<strong>12:40 &#8211;<\/strong> Voortrekker vs Southern Barbarians<br \/>\n<strong>11:30 &#8211;<\/strong> Helpmekaar vs Framesby<br \/>\n<strong>10:20 &#8211;<\/strong> Ho\u00ebrskool Rustenburg vs Welkom Gimnasium<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Absa Wildeklawer tournament for 2025 is jumbo packed with schoolboy rugby clashes for the connoisseur. The main event of the u19 rugby festival will take place from Wednesday, 30 April until Saturday, 3 May. All the action will be brought live to your screens once again by SuperSport Schools (www.supersportschools.com). The main match [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66343","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\/66343","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=66343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}