{"id":20556,"date":"2025-12-05T09:49:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T07:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-rugby-coachs-contract-extended-for-further-four-years\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:31:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:31:51","slug":"sa-rugby-coachs-contract-extended-for-further-four-years","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-rugby-coachs-contract-extended-for-further-four-years\/","title":{"rendered":"SA rugby coach&#8217;s contract extended for further four years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>South Africa&#8217;s (SA) rugby coach, Rassie Erasmus, is good to go for another two Rugby World Cup tournaments.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>SA Rugby announced that it has extended the double World Cup-winning Springbok\u00a0coach&#8217;s contract for a further four years.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It means Erasmus his contract will only expire in 2031, after the World Cup mooted to be in the United States.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>SA Rugby President Mark Alexander made the announcement at the federation&#8217;s general meeting of member unions.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He said the governing body was proud to reaffirm its commitment to excellence by extending the agreement with Erasmus.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He has made an enduring impact and shaped the identity of Springbok rugby since he was first appointed as Director of Rugby in 2018.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20557,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,20],"class_list":["post-20556","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Erasmus is good to go for another two Rugby World Cup tournaments","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24550,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20556\/revisions\/24550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=20556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}