Clayton Saville

Have spent some time this week looking into the state of doping on rugby across the world. The top 3 nations with violations in the past 10 years are 1. UK 2. Australia 3. South Africa. The UK has had 143 players fail doping tests. Australia second with 83 and South Africa 3rd with 81.

The Gift that keeps on Giving! 🇿🇦❤️✨ Historic win for the @Blitzboks Breaking the Hong Kong hoodoo on the 50th anniversary with a dominant win over Argentina. From the trailblazers of the past to the heroes of today – this legacy runs deep. Congrats Coach @snymanphilip and team

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page. It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection. Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do. Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades. The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water. It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left. The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero. When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

Devistated by the sad news today. Christopher “Chippie” Solomon, you sir, were a gentlemen, a father figure to many, and a great rugby man. Rugby has lost a great man. And I will miss our chats. Much love and strength to his friends and family, and the WP Rugby community as a whole.

@Jay34Burness @Slipcatch Given Adres penchant for cards that leaves JD and Connor. I supposed BJD and Dyamani will have to sometimes to a job at lock but its not ideal, theres going to have to be some incomings

@Slipcatch @Zels77 Leaves us with JD , Adre and Connor Evans

So Salmaan Moerat leaving!! Dobbo confirmed. Anyone know if it was confirmed if Ruben van Heerden was leaving as well, @Zels77 do you know?

Make it about f****** racing, man and machine, driver talent and skills, and not worrying about charging batteries or software algorithms, or hopefully starting a race because your PSU didn’t fuck out, or even just surviving a race because some other dud’s shit is not working (Bearman). I can watch Formula-E if that is what I was into, I am not. F1 will lose their most loyal following (fans) for a tik-tok generation that has no loyalty. Max is the only driver currently saying the quiet part out loud, leaving. He is not thebonly one thinking it.

@Lm_matoke Ok I hear you but who is the player with the footwork to get that pass away?

But Edward Sigauke is something else.

Stormers play their best rugby away from their faithful. Players believe winning in Cape Town requires a different type rugby. This add just more pressure and then the weird stuff comes out. All the faithful want is for them to win the game. The Chicken-Wing Stormers, is a real thing. But exclusively for Cape Town. So maybe a home play-off game comes with baggage? So much talent in that squad.

Alonso overtaking Max while vibrating is absolutely killing me 😭🤣

African football embarrassed once again by those in charge. That entire tournament and this, is an exercise in corruption and I am done with defending it. Absolute joke.

@Mud_n_Guts Shit and these are hard to close pop ups too.

Folks, I know times are tough for media these days. I used to be a subscriber back in the day but then your content went to the toilet. I still follow you, and I will click on pieces of interest, but when 5 banners pop up when you open an article, that’s me done, I close it. Last time I will make that mistake.

@gpricey23 @JunaidSamodien_ @SuperSportTV @DStv But have they ever shown testing? Honest question because the reason I have f1tv was to watch testing a few years ago and I've just never cancelled it.

@JunaidSamodien_ @SuperSportTV @DStv Canal plus sucks!!!

For those who pay for @SuperSportTV @DStv, we can confirm based on the scheduling, ZERO #F1Testing will be broadcast in South Africa or Africa, despite Canal+ owning the payTV service.

@CapeTown_Bru @Lady_Crunk March/April my favourite time of year because the wind mainly buggers off

@Lady_Crunk i hate winter, we barely had summer, its been wind for 5 months.

One day of rain & Cape Union Mart is declaring war on summer. EK KANNIE 😭😭😭

@jeanfkennedy @CapeTown_Bru I see what you did there!

@CapeTown_Bru Hits our shores around 57 Industria Ring Rd, Parow Industrial, gets distributed from there.

Spoke to guy trying to sell me coke yesterday at the Waterfront and he openly said that the Cartel is supplying them. Cartel coke arrives at it's highest purity in Cape Town and these dealers cut it down so much it barely makes the 40% mark.

Btw jasper got banned for 8 weeks for this. Where’s the ban @WorldRugby

So loud. So proud. #STOvBUL #inittogether @Vodacom #URC

They arrested Maduro’s wife before they arrested a single Epstein pedophile…

While everyone is arguing whether the greatest rugby team ever is the 2015 All Blacks or the 2023 Springboks, we all know it’s the 2026 Stormers.

Far from it. The Mobi-unit coaching group (Springbok coaches in their off-season Jan-May) was established under Rassie in 2013. Back then it was Rassie, Nienaber, Chean Roux, Pieter de Villiers and Louis Koen). They ‘assisted’ many franchises and non-franchises up and till Rassie left for Munster. Worked on a request basis. Teams will request assistance (on-field and off-field) and the unit was deployed. Was hugely successful and drove a national coaching plan while having direct access to Boks. I for one is very happy to see this return. It is a win-win for everyone. Capacitate coaches, national coaching blueprint and standards, direct contact with Boks and non/emerging talents.

‘everyone grieves differently’ Erika Kirk: