SA Country Schools Festival 2025

The 2025 SA Schools Country Schools Festival was held in Bloemfontein from 26 April to 29 April 2025.   This Festival is an opportunity for players (typically the C and D teams on the NJSA Ladder) to participate and play in a provincial event against teams from other provinces.

Results

We are still waiting for the final results from the tournament organisers, and we will update the post once we have them.

Selected CJS Players

NJSA selected teams to participate, and 32 CJS players have made the team selection! This group is the largest group of CJS players EVER to be part of this prestigious event!  Players who are selected and participate will receive Northerns half-colours.

The CJS Players who represented Northerns were:

Girls u19

• Rachel de Beer (Midstream College)

Boys u19

• Reabetswe Banda (Midstream College)
• Meinhardt Strydom (Hoërskool Zwartkop)
• Sinjon Rowlands (Midstream College)
• Arnu van Reeuwyk (Hoërskool Zwartkop)
• Aiden van den Berg (Hoërskool Eldoraigne)

Girls u16 

• Nickezel Grobler (Midstream College)
• Lené Lombard (Midstream College)

Boys u16

• Thomas Oliver (Hoërskool Zwartkop)
• Johannes Badenhorst (Hoërskool Zwartkop)
• Evan Janse van Rensburg (Midstream College)
• Jason Naudé (Hoërskool Zwartkop)
• Xander Erlank (Midstream College)
• Justin Naudé (Hoërskool Zwartkop)
• Benjamin Oliver (Hoërskool Zwartkop)
• Magnus Erlank (Midstream College)
• Eluanco Grobler (Midstream College)

Girls u14

• Lienke van Reeuwyk (Hoërskool Zwartkop)
• Liané Grobler (Midstream College)
• Milah Render (Hoërskool Waterkloof)

Boys u14

• Keanu Haasbroek (Hoërskool Zwartkop)
• Ulrich Strydom (Hoërskool Zwartkop)
• Kaelo Banda (Midstream College)

Boys u13

• Hercules Froneman (Midstream Ridge Primary)
• Kyle van Lelyveld (Midstream Ridge Primary)
• Oliver Carey (Cornwall Hill College)
• Conrad Pretorius (Midstream Ridge Primary)
• Noah Senatla (Midstream Ridge Primary)
• Ayohlula Mqabuka (Midstream Ridge Primary)