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🔎 INVESTIGATION · 🇿🇦 SOUTH AFRICA · TRANSFORMATION· 26 September 2026

IS IT RACISM OR NATURAL SELECTION? INSIDE THE SYSTEM THAT DECIDES WHO GETS TO PLAY SOUTH AFRICAN RUGBY

Scrum At Me / The Daily Scrum · 26 September 2026

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🔎 INVESTIGATION · 🇿🇦 SOUTH AFRICA · GBV· 24 September 2026

FROM THE KOLISI FOUNDATION TO WOMEN FOR CHANGE: RACHEL KOLISI IS BACK IN THE MIDDLE OF SOUTH AFRICA’S GBV MONEY CONVERSATION

Scrum At Me / The Daily Scrum · 24 September 2026

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🔴 BREAKING · 🇿🇦 SOUTH AFRICA · SPRINGBOKS· 23 September 2026

FROM RACIAL ABUSE TO SPRINGBOK CAPTAIN: SOUTH AFRICAN RUGBY HAS A QUESTION TO ANSWER

Scrum At Me / The Daily Scrum · 23 September 2026

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🇫🇷 FRANCE · SA RUGBY · BUSINESS· 20 September 2026

BAD INVESTMENT??? OR BAD AGENT?

Scrum At Me / The Daily Scrum · 20 September 2026

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🇳🇿 NEW ZEALAND · RUGBY FINANCE· 19 September 2026

NEW ZEALAND RUGBY IS LOSING MONEY — IS THE BUSINESS OF RUGBY BROKEN? WE GOT THE WORK!

Scrum At Me / The Daily Scrum · 19 September 2026

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ENGLAND · RUGBY UNION· 13 September 2026

ENGLAND REWARD FAILURE — WHILE THE SPRINGBOKS KEEP PRODUCING RECEIPTS

Scrum At Me / The Daily Scrum · 13 September 2026

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🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA · RUGBY LEAGUE· 13 September 2026

JOSH ADDO-CARR IS BACK IN A COCAINE STORM — AND THIS TIME, WAIT FOR THE LAB

Scrum At Me / The Daily Scrum · 13 September 2026

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🇿🇦 SOUTH AFRICA · RUGBY UNION· 13 September 2026

BOKS DESTROY THE ALL BLACKS 43–28 — AND TAKE THE WHOLE DAMN SERIES 3–1

Scrum At Me · The Daily Scrum · 13 September 2026

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🇿🇦 SOUTH AFRICA· 5 September 2026

DAVE. THE SCRUM SCORED. 😭

SCRUMATME — THE DAILY SCRUM

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🇿🇦 SOUTH AFRICA· 29 August 2026

NAHHH DAVE. NOT THE SCRUM. 😭

SCRUMATME — THE DAILY SCRUM

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🇿🇦 SOUTH AFRICA· 26 August 2026

THE RASSIE ERASMUS SELECTION QUESTIONS — A FANS' INVESTIGATION

Okay nahh, before this thing gets outta hand 😭

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🇿🇦 SOUTH AFRICA· 23 August 2026

THE CAPTAIN WAS AVAILABLE AND THEY LEFT HIM OUT: Ellis Park Just Proved Why Siya Kolisi Is Still the Soul of the Springboks — The Scrum Worked, the Power Was There, the Opportunities Came, and Somehow South Africa Still Fell Apart Without Its Captain

We want our fucking captain back.

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🇿🇦 SOUTH AFRICA· 20 August 2026

THIRTY YEARS OF WAITING, FOUR TESTS, ONE HUNDRED AND TEN MATCHES OF HISTORY, AND IT ALL LANDS AT ELLIS PARK ON SATURDAY

The All Blacks Have Finally Come Back to South Africa for a Proper Tour — Their First Since 1996 — and They've Walked Into a Country That Is Ranked Number One in the World, Holds the Heaviest Win in the Fixture's History, Owns This Stadium 9-6, and Has a Head Coach Who Brings Retired Referees to Press Conferences: The Complete ScrumAtMe Dossier on Rugby's Greatest Rivalry

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🇿🇦 SOUTH AFRICA · PROFILE· 13 August 2026

THE FASTEST FORWARD SOUTH AFRICA KEEPS PRETENDING IT CAN’T SEE

Now listen up, gang — every so often this country builds a loose forward so quick the broadcast cameramen file a formal complaint, and then spends the next eight years staring straight at him going “sorry, who’s this?” That is the whole Hacjivah Dayimani story in one breath, and it does NOT begin in one of those manicured rugby greenhouses where the U14 A-team gets a team psychologist, a nutritionist and a smoothie bar.

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🇿🇦 SOUTH AFRICA · MEDIA· 13 August 2026

SUPERSPORT EXPOSED: THE HAKA THEY TRIED TO DELETE

Now listen up, gang, because this is the word on the street right now — it’s all over the chats, everybody’s talking, and like all the best ones it starts with something beautiful and ends with somebody frantically deleting the evidence.

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🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA · RUGBY UNION· 10 August 2026

FROM WORLD CHAMPIONS TO A CAUTIONARY TALE — The Fall of the Wallabies

Australia are two-time world champions. Hold onto that, because everything from here reads like fiction if you forget where these people started.

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ENGLAND · RUGBY UNION· 9 August 2026

THE POWDER, THE PANEL & THE PART-TIME PHARMACISTS — ScrumAtMe’s Deep Dive Into English Rugby’s Long, Sniffly History With The One Drug That Makes You WORSE At Rugby — Part One: The Union

Listen up, bro. Sit down.

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🇿🇦 SOUTH AFRICA· 9 August 2026

THE HISTORY-MAKER PICKS THE HARDEST HOMEWORK ON EARTH: Vusi Moyo, 20, Is Handed the Sharks No 10 Jersey and Pointed Straight at the All Blacks in Durban on Tuesday Night, Because Nothing Says ‘Welcome Back to Club Rugby’ Like Being Told to Marshal a Backline Against the Most Feared Team on the Planet Under the Kings Park Lights

Somewhere in Durban a 20-year-old is ironing a No 10 jersey and whistling like a man who does not fully understand what is about to happen to him.

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🇳🇿 NEW ZEALAND· 9 August 2026

FORTY-FOUR YEARS OLD AND STILL GETTING RECRUITMENT CALLS FROM THE ENEMY: Ma’a Nonu, a TWO-TIME World Cup-Winning All Black, Is Named on the Hollywoodbets Sharks BENCH to Play AGAINST the All Blacks in Durban, Which Means the Great Man Might Sprint On in the 58th Minute and Be Asked to Tackle His Own Legacy

There are throwbacks, and then there is naming a 44-year-old, two-time World Cup-winning All Black on your bench to play AGAINST the All Blacks.

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🇿🇦 SOUTH AFRICA· 8 August 2026

SEVENTEEN-TEN AND EVERY SINGLE POINT PAID FOR IN SWEAT: The Springboks Grind Past a Snarling Argentina in Buenos Aires on a Cameron Hanekom Try, Edwill van der Merwe Finishes a Slick One Before the Break, and the World Champions Win ‘When Nothing Is Working’ Just as the All Blacks Roll Into the Republic

A 17-10 win that felt like doing your taxes with your fists.

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🇿🇦 SOUTH AFRICA· 8 August 2026

THE CAPTAIN LASTS TWENTY-FIVE MINUTES AND A WHOLE COUNTRY FORGETS HOW TO BREATHE: Siya Kolisi, in His First Game in Seven Weeks, Pulls Up With the Same Hamstring and Limps Off in Buenos Aires, Leaving His Availability for the All Blacks Series Opener Dangling Off the End of a Scan Result

Twenty-five minutes.

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🇳🇿 NEW ZEALAND· 7 August 2026

THIRTY-EIGHT TO TWENTY-ONE, AND THE SCOREBOARD IS TELLING A BAREFACED LIE: The All Blacks Open Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry Tour by Surviving a Gallant, Ill-Tempered Stormers Scrap in Cape Town, Deadlocked at 14-All Deep Into the Second Half Before Three Late Tries Dress the Win Up in a Suit It Didn’t Earn

Thirty-eight to twenty-one looks like a hiding. Do not be fooled — that scoreline got dressed in the last thirteen minutes and is now walking around town pretending it earned the suit.

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