Articles Tagged “Port Elizabeth”

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    SA7s: Results (Day2)

    The Springbok Sevens team topped pool A of the Nelson Mandela Bay SA Sevens in Port Elizabeth on Saturday after defeating Samoa, France and Australia and will face the USA in the Cup quarterfinals on…

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    SA7s: Results (Day1)

    The thousands of fans getting ready to attend this weekend’s Nelson Mandela Bay SA Sevens, should be in for a treat. With the emphatic ‘We are here‘ last weekend from the so-called minnow teams on…

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    Blitzbokke drawn in PE Pool-of-Death

    The hosts of the next round of the 2012/13 HSBC Sevens World Series, South Africa has been drawn again in what can only mildly be described as a ‘formidable‘ Pool. The official tournament draw by…

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    SA7s: We’re giving away Tickets!

    With just ten days to go until the 2012 South African Sevens, excitement for the Springbok Sevens’ home tournament is hotting up. In the meantime, the Blitzbokke are firmly tucked into their Dubai hotel where…

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    Cell C to headline NMB SA7s in Port Elizabeth

    Cell C are the new headline sponsor of The Nelson Mandela Bay Sevens, the South African Rugby Union (SARU) announced on Wednesday. The cellular network provider will sponsor Rugby’s Biggest Party, the South African leg…

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    Ticket fares un-changed for SA Sevens

    Sevens fans in South Africa have received an early Christmas prezzie when SARU announced the ticket prices for the “Biggest Party of the Year,” the Nelson Mandela Bay South African Sevens. SARU made the announcement…

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    Tickets for the PE Sevens go on sale

      Tickets to the much-anticipated South African Sevens tournament, to be held for the first time at the iconic Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth, are on sale from today. The SA Sevens (9…

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    Tickets to SA Sevens to go on sale

    The 2011/12 HSBC Sevens World Series will visit a second new venue after the South African Rugby Union (SARU) recently announced that Port Elizabeth will be the new host of the South African leg. The…

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    Leeuloop flash-mob?

    Earlier this week I posted about the flash-mob phenomenon being successfully applied in New Zealand in the run-up to Rugby World Cup. I wonder if you too are overcome with goosebumps whenever you see that…

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    Springboks vs. New Zealand (images)

    What is SARU implying by putting the ‘Media Tribune’ on the highest point of the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium and by barring us from using the elevators nogal?! (nudge, nudge, wink, wink!) OK…. I actually…

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    Road Trip: Welcome to PE!

    So it was a rather sleepy but moerse excited Mike Jansen (and a full Greyhound bus) who arrived in Port Elizabeth around 06h30 this morning. I was probably the only person who was awake throughout…

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    Road Trip!

    Friday 19 August 2011 What a way to end of a two-month summer-holiday (winter in South Africa) than going to watch the Springboks take on the All Blacks! Thanks to a media-pass courtesy of the…