{"id":18861,"date":"2013-03-23T09:34:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T07:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/watch-out-stellenbosch-here-come-the-madibaz\/"},"modified":"2013-03-23T09:34:44","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T07:34:44","slug":"watch-out-stellenbosch-here-come-the-madibaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/watch-out-stellenbosch-here-come-the-madibaz\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch out Stellenbosch, Here come the Madibaz"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Four busloads of Madibaz supporters will travel overnight to Stellenbosch on Sunday to back their boytjies in their side\u2019s first-ever semi-final of the Varsity Cup rugby contest on Monday evening.<\/p>\n

The 240 travelling Dibaz students will join other Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University alumni and fans living in the Western Cape in backing the team that almost beat Maties in the round-robin stage of the university rugby competition. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe couldn\u2019t let our team go to the University of Stellenbosch without support. It\u2019s the support of the Dibaz fans that has helped the team to its most successful Varsity Cup campaign to date,\u201d said NMMU<\/a> online community manager Beverley Erickson. <\/p>\n

Last Monday, fans poured in the university\u2019s stadium in numbers to ensure the biggest sporting crowd since middle-distance runner Zola Budd\u2019s world-record effort back in 1983.
\n\u201cThe support we have received from our fans has been incredible. It\u2019s great to know that some of them will be at the game in Stellenbosch,\u201d said Madibaz coach Brent Janse van Rensburg, whose team will fly to the Western Cape early on Sunday morning. <\/p>\n

A team effort by various divisions within the university, including the Student Representative Council and the Vice-Chancellor Prof Derrick Swartz, to both fund and organize buses for the trip will see loyal on and off-campus residence students travel from NMMU<\/a> on Sunday evening, with one bus stopping off at the university\u2019s George Campus to pick up further fans.<\/p>\n

Opponents have waivered entry fees for the Madibaz fans and will also provide ablution facilities from the overnight travellers before the game at 7pm Monday evening. A special block booking for the travelling party and other NMMU alumni, led by Trust Legacy Director Kotie Grove, is also being arranged by Maties. <\/p>\n

The fans will travel back immediately after the game. <\/p>\n

On its journey to the semi-finals, NMMU won all its home games against Wits (24 \u2013 16), University of Free State\u2019s Shimlas (14 \u2013 10); University of Johannesburg (20 \u2013 13) and University of Pretoria\u2019s Tukkies (13 \u2013 7). Away from home, the Madibaz drew with UCT (5 \u2013 5), and narrowly lost to both North West University\u2019s Pukke (39 \u2013 36) and Maties (13 \u2013 8).<\/p>\n

It has been their best season in the six-year history of the competition.<\/p>\n

The match will be televised on SuperSport at 7pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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