White has recently been coaching the Toyota Verblitz in Japan and joins the Vodacom Bulls with over four decades of coaching experience stretching back to the early 1980s.

This extension means that Jantjies will remain with the Stormers until at least the end of the 2022 season.

The International Olympic Committee and Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee announced on Tuesday that the Olympic and Paralympic Games will be postponed. Rugby Sevens was one of the sporting codes due to be played in July in Tokyo.

The business end of the season was poised for an exciting finish before it was brought to an abrupt halt following the global COVID-19 pandemic that caused the cancellation of the knock-out rounds of the One-Day Cup as well as the final two rounds of the 4-Day Domestic Series.

Cecilia Molokwane had travelled to the United Kingdom for meetings with the International Netball Federation (INF) where she serves as a board member in March.

World Rugby announced on Friday that the World Rugby U20 Championship, which was set to be hosted in Verona, Viadana, Calvisano and Parma in Italy from 28 June to 18 July, was called off with the wellbeing of the global rugby family at heart.

Aleck Skhosana and Winn agreed that all further comments and statements during the 30 days of postponements of all athletics activities in the country will only come through the national office of ASA.

The tests for the highly-infectious virus were conducted after it was revealed earlier this week that members of the Australia Sevens rugby team tested positive.

Two Oceans Marathon NPC had an emergency meeting over the weekend where they unanimously decided that all Two Oceans Marathon events scheduled for 8-11 April 2020 would be cancelled amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

These plans could see South African franchises and other provincial teams return to a new, locally-based derby competition in view of the current suspension of Super Rugby and the PRO 14.

This includes all first-class cricket, Momentum Cup, all semi-professional and provincial cricket and all junior and amateur cricket.

Scheduled Springbok alignment camps, Springbok Men’s and Women’s training camps and the SA Rugby Under-20 preparations have all been suspended until 14 April.

Netball South Africa president Cecilia Molokwane and her executive members have taken a unanimous decision to suspend all planned netball activities scheduled to take place in March and April 2020 respectively effective immediately.

To this end, the WPCA offices and Newlands Cricket Ground, is under lockdown until further notice.

An international series featuring the national Under-20 teams of Georgia and Argentina as well as the Junior Boks, set to take place in South Africa in April, has been cancelled as well as a planned tour by the team to the United Kingdom in May.

Athletes that are registered for the event will receive an email with further details.

The South African Women’s Sevens team were due to compete with teams from Argentina, Belgium, China, Colombia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Poland and Scotland.