SA Rugby
The popular HSBC Cape Town Sevens tournament, which was scheduled to take place from 10-12 December this year, has been called off due to ongoing challenges caused by the COVID-pandemic.
World Rugby and SA Rugby announced on Friday that the Cape Town leg of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series, as well as the tournament in Singapore, planned for 29-30 October, have been cancelled.
“We highly regret that we had to cancel the Cape Town Sevens for a second successive season,” said SA Rugby CEO Jurie Roux. “Unfortunately the situation with the pandemic has made it impossible for us to stage the world-class event we’ve become used to in recent years.”
Roux said there were simply too many insurmountable challenges, in an ever-changing environment, to allow SA Rugby to predictably plan for an event of this magnitude.
He added that due to COVID travel restrictions, several major teams had already indicated that they would not be able to travel to Cape Town in December, which further complicated planning.
Roux said, however, that SA Rugby was hard at work to deliver a world-class Rugby World Cup Sevens in September next year.
