Intense level of school rugby reveals the high-performance reality needed to compete

Daily Maverick | 17.04.2026 21:40
The recent fallout between Selborne College on the one side and rugby director Derek Page and former Springbok coach and Bulls mentor Jake White on the other should be placed at the centre of a much larger conversation: the rapid professionalisation of schoolboy rugby in South Africa and how much is too much to ensure competitiveness.