{"id":118,"date":"2016-05-24T00:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T22:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studentnewsgrid.org\/wordpress\/?p=118"},"modified":"2016-05-24T00:00:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T22:00:41","slug":"rugby-match-interrupted-by-srcmustfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/2016\/05\/24\/rugby-match-interrupted-by-srcmustfall\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby match interrupted by #SRCMustFall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"zxx\"><span lang=\"zxx\">Friday\u2019s rugby game between Rhodes\u2019 first team and Walter Sisulu University was cut short\u00a0 by #SRCMustFall protesters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"zxx\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p lang=\"zxx\">Walter Sisulu who were out for blood after a tough loss to Rhodes at Inter-Varsity last year. Rhodes kicked off the game, which resulted in a line out on the halfway line. Within the first three minutes, Walter Sisulu was awarded a penalty, which they kicked successfully to lead 3-0.\u00a0Walter Sisulu proceeded to push Rhodes back into their territory. Rhodes managed to steal the ball back just within their half and pushed back to Walter Sisulu\u2019s try line where a line-out was taken.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"zxx\">Rhodes was awarded a penalty but failed to kick it successfully. The scores still at 3-0, Rhodes continued to push Walter Sisulu back to score the first try of the game by Yalusa Nodada. The conversion was unsuccessful, leaving the scores at 5-3 to Rhodes.\u00a0Walter Sisulu retaliated by stealing a try, putting them back in the lead. They successfully converted the try, leaving the scores at 11-5 to Walter Sisulu.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"zxx\">During half time the field was occupied by #SRCMustFall protesters who refused to leave. \u201cWe need numbers. I don\u2019t understand how there is a rugby game happening while we are in need of support,\u201d said one of the protesters. This was met with chants from the stands urging them to leave the field.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"zxx\">The protesters eventually agreed to leave the field. The game has been rescheduled for Friday, 27 May in Port Elizabeth.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"zxx\">Written by: Catherine Berlein<\/p>\n<p lang=\"zxx\">Originally published: <a href=\"http:\/\/activateonline.co.za\/rugby-match-interrupted-by-srcmustfall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">activateonline.co.za\/rugby-match-interrupted-by-srcmustfall<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"zxx\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday\u2019s rugby game between Rhodes\u2019 first team and Walter Sisulu University was cut short\u00a0 by #SRCMustFall protesters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[34,35,6,36,28,37,38,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}