Three SA schools off to Zimbabwe

Three South African schools are flying off to Harare for the start of the inaugural Leabridge Rugby Challenge with three days of matches at Bushman Rock, a safari park 30km outside Harare.  

The South African schools are Pretoria Boys High, St Andrew's from Grahamstown and SACS of Cape Town. They will be in the mix with St John's of Harare, St George's of Harare, Prince Edward of Harare, Churchill of Harare, and Lomagundi of Chinhoyi, just over 100 km outside of Harare.

There will also be primary school teams taking part - Springvale and Ruzawi of Mardondera, and Harare schools Lilfordia, a private school founded in 1909 by the Lilford family, Mbare Academy, established by Milton Rankeni and Victor Pakeni in a particularly poor suburb of Harare, St John's Prep and Hartmann House, the Jesuit school.

The tournament is named after its sponsors, Leabridge Technologies in an effort to raise the profile of Zimbabwe schoolboy rugby across the region.

Tournament fixtures:

Tuesday, 26 June (2012)

12.45: Mbare Academy vs Hartmann House  

13.45: SACS vs St John’s (Harare)

15.00: Lomagundi vs St Andrew's

Thursday, 28 June

11.50: SACS vs Churchill  

12.20: Lilfordia vs Springvale  

13.50: St Andrew's vs Prince Edward  

15.20: St John’s Prep vs Ruzawi  

15.50: Pretoria Boys High vs St George’s

Saturday, 30 June

13.10: St Andrew's vs St George’s

14.20: SACS vs Prince Edward  

15.30: Pretoria Boys High vs St John’s

Pretoria Boys High will play Peterhouse on the Tuesday and then  will continue their tour after the tournament and play Falcon College in Bulawayo. This will be Pretoria Boys' second tour of Zimbabwe, the last one was in 1995 when John Smit was still playing for the first team.