{"id":77834,"date":"2025-07-23T09:18:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T07:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=77834"},"modified":"2025-07-23T09:18:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T07:18:14","slug":"super-12-participants-are-locked-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=77834","title":{"rendered":"Super 12 participants are locked in"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Fairtree Super 12 Tournament celebrates a decade of high-quality hockey.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Twelve of the country’s top hockey-playing girls’ schools are primed to contest the 10th edition of the Fairtree Super 12 Tournament<\/strong> at Sekond\u00eare Meisieskool Oranje<\/strong> from 7-9 August.<\/p>\n

The lineup features teams from five provinces.<\/p>\n

The Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provide half the field, contributing three teams each. The Eastern Cape, Gauteng, and the Free State will have two representatives each.<\/p>\n

Rhenish Girls’ High<\/strong>, Paarl Gimnasium<\/strong>, and Ho\u00ebr Meisieskool Bloemhof<\/strong> will carry the hopes of the Western Cape, while the trio of Our Lady of Fatima Dominican Convent School<\/strong>, St Anne’s Diocesan College<\/strong>, and St Mary’s DSG (Kloof)<\/strong> will fly the flag for KZN.<\/p>\n

Die Ho\u00ebrskool Menlopark<\/strong> and Ho\u00ebrskool Waterkloof<\/strong>, both from Pretoria, are the Gauteng reps, while Collegiate Girls’ High<\/strong> and Diocesan School for Girls (DSG) Makhanda <\/strong>will present a strong challenge from the Eastern Cape.<\/p>\n

Local fans will cheer on Eunice High School<\/strong> and Sekond\u00eare Meisieskool Oranje<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Our Lady of Fatima, which qualified for the elite event for the first time, is the 25th school to earn a place in the tournament.<\/p>\n

DSG Makhanda, which has produced an outstanding season, returns to the showpiece for the first time since in 2018. Collegiate, meanwhile, missed out on last year’s Super 12.<\/p>\n

Three sides that featured in 2024 – Durban Girls’ College<\/strong>, St Stithians College<\/strong> and Ho\u00ebrskool Garsfontein <\/strong>– miss out this year. St Stithians’ absence means that for the first time in its 10-year history the lineup does not include a school from Johannesburg.<\/p>\n

The teams have been split into two groups, Pools A and B. Pool A<\/strong>, has the look of the “pool of death”.<\/p>\n

It features three previous winners: the reigning champions, Rhenish; 2023 winners, Eunice; and Oranje, who last lifted the trophy in 2022. Last year’s runner-up, St Mary’s DSG, Kloof, is also in the pool, along with Bloemhof and Waterkloof.<\/p>\n

Newcomers Our Lady of Fatima will battle for Pool B<\/strong> supremacy with DSG Makhanda, Paarl Gim, Collegiate, Menlopark, and St Anne’s.<\/p>\n

The tournament is scheduled to start with a bang, with Rhenish taking on St Mary’s Kloof in a repeat of last year’s final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Twelve of the country’s top hockey-playing girls’ schools are primed to contest the 10th edition of the Fairtree Super 12 Tournament at Sekond\u00eare Meisieskool Oranje from 7-9 August. The lineup features teams from five provinces. The Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provide half the field, contributing three teams each. The Eastern Cape, Gauteng, and the Free […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":77836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77834","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\/77834","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}