By Basil Bey On Saturday evening in Smuts Hall (Men’s Res, as some still called it), during winter, there would all of a sudden break out a…

Dr Louis Babrow truly believes that the University of Cape Town, and particularly the student body, changed the whole sporting and social structure of our…

Bodo Sieber There are and were certain characteristics that make an Ikeys team and the players that form part of it. Flair, expressing yourself on…

Butch Deuchar is one of the best lock forwards to have played for UCT. That is quite a statement, but fully justified. Lock forwards do…

Keith Andrews Ikey Old Boy At the end of 1982, I remember Basil and Guys walking up the parkway towards the College House reception area.…

By Tank Lanning (Part 17 in the Tribute series to Basil Bey) A particularly festive post-match celebration saw us back at boarding school before lights…

By Gavin Fernie Herman Charles Bosman’s legendary character, Oom Schalk Lourens, opined that the art of storytelling was to pause, tap your pipe on your…

By Paul Dobson – Originally published on rugby365.com. Basil had had a painful battle with cancer, and Wednesday Nov 9th fell into a coma. He…

By Gavin Fernie (introduction to the Basil Bey Tribute series) Mulling over a hot stove of plotting and planning, jumbled words and phrases roaming my…

As we had reported, plenty of UCT boys were in action at the SA Sevens last weekend – three of them walked away with a…

We caught up with Mpho Mbiyozo, the varsity flank who is now in his second season with the Springbok Sevens team. He is a regular…

  The Scatterlings of Africa after winning the Bowl at the HK Tens Well, not really, but we caught up with the Ikey Tigers center…

Hide your sisters, as “Off the Mark” returns with another sensational collumn! As most of you know by now the Ikey Tigers kicked off their…

Hide your sisters, as “Off the Mark” returns with another sensational collumn! As most of you know by now the Ikey Tigers kicked off their…

Here the second installment of the “Off the Mark” – A draw, where’s my sister? Yesterday we looked at the Shimlas game and found out…