HARLEQUIN YOUTH

Harlequin Youth Club was established by Ossie Rusher in 1967. Dr. Danie Craven attempted the same concept in the Cape with limited success. Harlequin Youth was the first in South Africa and was known as a clinic, in the beginning, making it the oldest Youth Club in South Africa and still growing every year!... Harlequin Rugby Club was founded in 1903. Just after the Anglo-Boer war in 1902, many of the young men were recruited from the Cape to join the new Transvaal Civil Service based in Pretoria. It was decided amongst these men that a rugby club be formed to cater specifically to their sporting needs, which they named the Civil Service Club. The colours chosen were white jerseys, with the letters C.S.F.C. worded in red on the left breast together with blue shorts... We were the First Youth Club in South Africa to tour England in the 1980s and participate in the Rugby World Youth Tournament in France.