Feb 6, 2001: Amid talk of the expansion of the Super 12 the SARFU chief executive has said he does not see the competition growing beyond 14 teams
Feb 6, 2001: Bobby Skinstad's return from injury could be confirmed this Friday after Corne Krige was all but ruled out of a Super 12 warm-up against Boland
Feb 6, 2001: Springbok centre Andre Snyman is preparing to end 17 months of hell in a debut for the Sharks on Friday night in a Super 12 warm-up
Feb 6, 2001: New Zealand have rejected suggestions that northern hemisphere sides should join the Tri-Nations series
Feb 6, 2001: Former Springbok wing James Small may be heading to Italy to play club rugby after revelations following the recent split with his model girlfriend Christina Storm
Feb 6, 2001: New South Wales have made an unexpected swoop for Samoan rugby league international wing Brian Leauma ahead of the Super 12 kick off
Feb 6, 2001: USA Rugby has given an in-principle thumbs up to a proposed Super 20 competition
Feb 2, 2001: Springbok wing and Sevens star Breyton Paulse has urged South African rugby authorities to focus even more attention on the Sevens game in this country
Feb 2, 2001: The Stormers are facing a front row crisis ahead of the start of their Super 12 campaign against the Cats in three weeks' time
Feb 2, 2001: Springbok coach Harry Viljoen on Thursday defended his actions of having the players sign Bok contracts at his workshop in Cape Town a week ago
Feb 2, 2001: The Bulls have become embroiled in the latest saga to hit the implementation of the quota system in South African rugby
Feb 2, 2001: Australian Rugby Union managing director John O'Neill has put forward a proposal to add England and France to the current Tri-Nations series in operation in the southern hemisphere
Feb 1, 2001: The Bulls' tour of Fiji didn't get off to an ideal start when they lost 35-27 against a Development side on Thursday
Feb 1, 2001: The Cats will mean business when they take on Griquas in a warm-up match at Kimberley on Friday, with captain Rassie Erasmus describing the game as vital in relation to the Super 12 season and saying only a solid win will suffice
Feb 1, 2001: Former Wellington Hurricanes scrumhalf Joggie Viljoen has returned to South Africa with only one thing in mind: to win back his Bok jersey
Feb 1, 2001: Johan Erasmus will make his return, after missing the Springboks end-of-year tour through injuries, when he leads the Cats in their first warm-up game against Griquas in Kimberley on Friday
Feb 1, 2001: The South African Rugby Football Union (Sarfu) are unlikely to follow their New Zealand counterparts' lead by proposing a review of the International Rugby Board's tours agreement
Jan 31, 2001: Harry Viljoen plans to make the South African forwards a force in world rugby again
Jan 31, 2001: Stormers captain Corne Krige needed three X-rays after he injured his neck in a contact training session before getting the all clear on Tuesday
Jan 31, 2001: The disciplinary hearing of Springbok prop Cobus Visagie, who returned a positive dope test last October, will continue in Cape Town on Wednesday