James Horwill has re-signed with Australian Rugby and the Queensland Reds. The Qantas Wallabies Tri-Nations-winning captain of 2011 has inked a new agreement which will see the second rower extend his career in Australia by an additional two years, taking him through until the end of the 2015 Rugby World Cup.

“I’m happy to have my future resolved,” Horwill says. “It was always my intention to remain in Australia. I’ve still got a lot more that I want to achieve with both the Wallabies and the Queensland Reds.”

The Springbok Sevens team won their second consecutive tournament of the HSBC World Sevens Series on Sunday when they defeated the All Blacks Sevens team 28-21 in the final of the Emirates Airlines Glasgow Sevens tournament.

This victory follows a win in Tokyo last month and makes South Africa the only team in the series to have won three tournaments, following an earlier win in Las Vegas as well.

The Vodacom Bulls recorded their 100th Vodacom Super Rugby victory in some style and consolidated their position at the top of the SA Conference on a weekend where their countrymen struggled.

The three-time champions from Pretoria took the Hurricanes apart at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday evening, after the DHL Stormers, The Sharks and the Southern Kings came up short against Australasian opposition.

Marnitz Boshoff, Rosco Spekman, Cheslin Kolbe and Lizo Gqoboka were their teams’ heroes this weekend as the MTN Golden Lions, Steval Pumas, DHL Western Province and EP Kings progressed to the Vodacom Cup semi-finals for 2013.

The Steval Pumas will host the EP Kings at the Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit next weekend, while the defending Vodacom Cup champions, DHL Western Province, have to travel to Ellis Park in Johannesburg to face the MTN Golden Lions.