By Willem Louw in ssschoolsplus/Rugby/Featured Rugby/News at 2024/03/13
With an illustrious 158 year rugby heritage, each season holds a profound significance for the Paul Roos Gimnasium first XV.
Named in honour of the captain of the first South African touring side in 1906, Paul Roos. This was also the first side to be called the Springboks.
Continue reading PRG first team aims to echo school’s legacy in 2024
The PRG Classic Golf Day, on Thursday 14 March 2024, was once again a stunning success, with clear sunny skies and breathtaking pink and purple mountains as the backdrop.
Continue reading Golf Day a stunning success
The PRG Old Boys Cricket Festival took place at the PRG Oval on 8 and 9 March 2024. The only feedback the Old Boys News Blog received of these two days of thrilling cricket, exciting activities, and sumptuous food stalls, was this photo. But it is clear that the event was thoroughly enjoyed. Thank you to the event sponsor, Jansen Pure Beef, and the team sponsors: PKF, Fairtree, Riverside Orchards, SAC, CH Building Supplies, Capepots (Fresh Produce Prepacking and Supplies) and Somerset Sand & Stone.
There is much more to address than only the quality of the water of the Eerste River. That was the lesson that members of PRG’s Societas club and learners of Kayamandi secondary schools when they went on an outing on Saturday 21 September 2023. “The River That Binds Us Project” focused on the impact that diverse communities with different historical, cultural, and socio-economic circumstances had on the Eerste River. Segregation between these distinct communities had compromised and is still compromising the Eerste River’s ecological well-being, and ultimately also negatively impacts human and animal health along the river. But it seems that there is hope for the future, and the project will continue thanks to PRG’s new partnership with Investec, as well as with envisaged involvement of interested and affected parties in the community, corporate companies, and environmentally orientated non-governmental organisations.
Continue reading Societas kry gravitas: Paul Roosers en leerders van Kayamandi vat hande met die loods van die “The River that binds us”-projekDie Oudskoliere-unie wil graag PRG ondersteun met die digitalisering van jaarboeke, fotos en dokumente. Meer besonderhede sal in die loop van aanstaande jaar gegee word nadat verdere ondersoek na spesifieke behoeftes en kosteberekenings gedoen is.
Waarom by hierdie projek betrokke raak? Die digitalisering van die data sal dit moontlik maak dat PRG se geskiedenis vir die nageslag permanent vasgelê word. PRG se geskiedenis sal daardeur wêreldwyd as ‘n digitale museum beskikbaar wees.
Continue reading Raak betrokke by die Digitale Voetspore-projek
Portchie, bekende Old Boy kunstenaar deesdae, minder bekend as Jan Hendrick Viljoen, het 60 geword vanjaar en dit gevier met een van die grootste kunuitstallings in die Stellenbosch-stadsaal in November.
Continue reading Portchie (1980) vier sy 60ste met besondere uitstalling
A Facebook post about the schools from where the members of the victorious 2023 Springbok Rugby World Cup come from, was widely read, and shared. One interesting fact was that PRG had the most representatives in the team.
Continue reading Lekker gesprek oor van watter skole die seëvierende Springbokke kom
Anton Müller (1976), skrywer van die boek Ek Onthou – ‘n Outistiese Seun se Lewensreis, het einde Oktober na ‘n loopbaan van 44 jaar as rakbeampte by Stellenbosse Openbare Bibilioteek afgetree en sien daarna uit om meer tyd op sy fiets deur te bring, aan familiebesoeke te wy en met die administrasie by sy kerk te help.
Continue reading “Outistiese seun” tree af na lang loopbaan
Op die herdenking van Paul Roos se geboortedag (30 Oktober 1880) het rektor André van Staden, adjunkrektor AC Blume, argivaris Mariena Kotze, hoofleiers Riley Norton, Oliver Reid en Christiaan Cronjé, tesame met van sy familielede (insluitend twee agterkleinseuns John-Paul Roos en Dehan Roos) ‘n kranslegging by sy graf in die Onderpapegaaiberg-begraafplaas gehou.
Dit was ‘n heerlike gesellige aand om die braaivleisvure op Markötter op 16 November, toe daar met gevleuelde woorde afskeid geneem is van Frans van Niekerk, wat einde Januarie 2024 aftree. In die eerste blog van die nuwe jaar word meer vertel oor Frans se 35 jaar by PRG.
Continue reading Rugbykomitee neem afskeid van ‘n groot gees
Aanstaande jaar gaan ‘n lekker jaar vir rugbykyk by jou alma mater wees. Nie net vind die interskole teen Grey College op 17 Augustus op die Markötterstadium plaas nie, maar ook ‘n paar ander grotes teen Wynberg op 27 Mei, Boishaai op 20 April, Bishops op 20 Julie en Boland Landbou op 3 Augustus.
Vroeg in die jaar – van 20 tot 25 Maart – word daar ook ‘n rugbyfees vir die o16 B, C en D spanne en die o19 C en D spanne op Stellenbosch gehou. Dit sal ‘n mens ‘n goeie idee gee van wat die rugbydiepte op skolevlak is.
From the interviews held with Michael Jordaan, after being chosen as Business Leader of the Year 2023 by Die Burger/Netwerk24/Kaapstad-sakekamer, it becomes clear that he is a great philosopher and that everybody can learn something from him.
Continue reading Sakeleier van die Jaar Michael Jordaan (1985) gee goeie raadNoudat die Bokke die riller van ‘n Hanegeveg oorleef het, dramaties die Engelse uitgeskakel het en die troosprys vir die Franse die reuse-sukses van die Rugby-Wêreldbekertoernooi is, kan ‘n mens bietjie terugkyk op ‘n klompie spesiale oomblikke waarby Paul Roosers betrokke was.
Continue reading Old Boys sorg vir spesiale oomblikke by Rugby-WêreldbekertoernooiBokkie Gerber (1970) kom ‘n lang pad met rugby! In hierdie lekkerleesartikel wat met die vergunning van Rapport as ‘n PDF aan die Old Boys-nuusblog beskikbaar gestel is, vertel hy hoe dit gebeur het dat hy en sy broers op Planeet Rugby grootgeword het.
Continue reading Die man wat weet…
The previous PRG rector Jannie van der Westhuizen recently discussed two PRG rugby incidents in Die Burger to demonstrate that even though sport has irrevocably become a huge industry, it is the stories that will be remembered years later and not the results. Stories deeply define the true nature of sport. It enriches the space in which players and athletes participate and which fans and spectators want to see, enjoy and remember.
Thank you to Die Burger for kindly making Jannie’s article available in PDF format to the Old Boys News Blog for all to read.
