Several schools around the country will again put on Easter weekend sports festivals from Wednesday with the focus on rugby and hockey, but netball, squash, football and tennis and other sports will also be played.
Up in Joburg the three traditional Easter weekend festivals will take place at St Stithians, KES and St John’s.
The focus will again be on schoolboy rugby, with matches to be played at some schools on Thursday, Saturday and Monday.
A number of schoolboy teams from abroad will also be in action at the festivals, with sides touring from the UK and Australia.
Several top schools have been in action at the Noord-Suid tournament at Affies in Pretoria over the last weekend and into Tuesday and some of them will thus not be involved in the Joburg Easter weekend festivals.
Bloemfontein’s Grey College, however, who played at Affies, will have their first and second XVs in action on Thursday at St John’s.
Here then are all the fixtures for the rugby festivals in Joburg this Easter.
St Stithians
Thursday8.30am: Hartpury XV (England) v Windhoek9.40am: St Stithians v St John’s (Harare)10.50am: Mzwandile Mali XV v Clifton12pm: St Charles v Northcliff1.10pm: Kempton Park v Pietersburg2.20pm: Hartpury (England) v Middleburg
3.30pm: Garsfontein v Wynberg
Saturday8.30am: Hartpury XV (England) v Mzwandile Mali XV9.40am: St Charles v Kempton Park10.50am: St John’s Harare v Clifton12pm: Windhoek v Northcliff1.10pm: Hartpury (England) v Garsfontein2.20pm: Pietersburg v Middleburg
3.30pm: St Stithians v Wynberg
Monday10.10am: Windhoek v Mzwandile Mali XV11.20am: Hartpury (England) v Northcliff12.30pm: Garsfontein v Kempton Park
1.40pm: Pietersburg v St John’s Harare
King Edward VII
Saturday9am: Worcester Gim v Hudson Park10.15am: Eldoraigne v Pearson11.30am: Northwood v Marlow12.45pm: Cranbrook (Aust) v Dale2pm: Noordheuwel v Queens
3.15pm: KES v St Andrew’s
Monday9am: Eldoraigne v Hudson Park10.15am: Worcester Gim v Dale11.30am: Noordheuwel v Marlow12.45pm: Cranbrook v Pearson2pm: Northwood v St Andrew’s
3.15pm: KES v Queen’s
St John’s
Thursday10.10am: Grey College 2nd XV Cherries v Noordheuwel 2nd XV11.20am: Golden Lions Invitation XV v Welkom Gim12.30pm: St Alban’s v St Joseph’s Nudgee College 2nd XV (Aust)1.40pm: St Benedict’s v Graeme2.50pm: Kingswood v St David’s Marist Inanda4pm: Monument v Westlake Boys High5.10pm: St Joseph’s Nudgee College 1st XV (Aust) v Grey College 1st XV7.10pm: Hilton v Nelspruit
8.20pm: Bishops v St John’s
Saturday9.30am: St David’s Marist Inanda v Randburg10.40am: St Joseph’s Nudgee College 2nd XV v St Benedict’s11.50am: Nelspruit v St Alban’s1pm: Monument v Kingswood2.10pm: St John’s v Golden Lions Invitational3.20pm: Graeme v Bishops5.30pm: Welkom Gim v Westlake Boys High
6.40pm: Hilton v St Joseph’s Nudgee College 1st XV
Monday10am: Queens v Noordheuwel (U16)12pm: King Edward VII v Lions (U16)1pm: St David’s Preparatory v St Benedict’s Preparatory (U13)2pm: St John’s v Randburg (U16)3pm: St Peter’s Boys’ Prep v WHPS (U13)
4pm: Westlake Boys High 1st XV v Randburg 1st XV (U19)
