1990s
South African rugby league was a thinking process as far back as 1988 when Dave Suthern looked to develop the game he had played and loved for many years in his home nation at the time (South Africa). It was he and Tony Barker who first stirred interests in league in 1990 through an advertisement in a regional Johannesburg paper that attracted sufficient interest to hold an inaugural lunch.
The luncheon resulted in the formation of a board with no less than fourteen, which included President Trevor Lake, Chairman Jacey Strauss (then General manager of Pepsi Cola South Africa) and Referee Barry Haslam.
Club formation in the first year or two was left to Dave Suthern who also coached the often overran clinics at some black schools of Northern Johannesburg, and Mamelodi in Pretoria.
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