11/10/2026 Bertus Preller Best Interests of the Child, Children, Parental Rights, Parental rights and responsibilities, Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013, School rugby governance, School rugby recruitment, School sport law, Schoolboy Rugby South Africa, Schoolboy rugby transfers best interests of the child section 28, Bought Not Built, Centre for Child Law v Media 24, child privacy South Africa, Children’s Act 38 of 2005, divorce school move child, family law South Africa, Information Regulator complaint, NM v Smith privacy, parental consent children’s act, parenting plan school change, POPIA administrative fine R10 million, POPIA children’s information, POPIA penalties imprisonment, Press Code children, publication of schoolboy rugby transfers, rugby blog privacy, rugby bursary school transfer, schoolboy rugby poaching, schoolboy rugby recruitment, schoolboy rugby transfer sheets, section 18 parental responsibilities and rights, section 30 co-holders, section 31 major decisions, section 34 POPIA, section 35 POPIA competent person, section 7 POPIA journalism exclusion, section 99 POPIA damages, separated parents school decision Schoolboy Rugby Transfer Sheets: What Parental Consent Means in Family Law and What POPIA Does to Blogs That Publish Without It. In a recent article for my Substack newsletter I looked at the running "transfer sheets" that some rugby websites keep of schoolboy players moving between schools, and I asked a… READ MORE
19/09/2026 Bertus Preller Best Interests of the Child, Children, Children's Act, Children's matters South Africa, National Code, Player Status Regulations, Players' Agents Regulations, Rugby agents, Rugby bursaries, Rugby poaching, Rugby regulations, Rugby scouts, School rugby governance, School rugby recruitment, School sport law, Schoolboy Rugby South Africa, Schoolboy rugby transfers, Schools, Section 28 Constitution, South African Schools Act 80 per cent rule, best interests of the child, child protection in sport, children's act, Craven Week, FIFA compensation model, first XV, independent schools, John Smit, KwaZulu-Natal Headmasters' Agreement, National Code, Player Status Regulations, Players' Agents Regulations, Pridwin, rugby agents, rugby bursaries, rugby poaching, rugby scouts, SA Rugby regulations, school rugby governance, school rugby recruitment, school sport law, schoolboy rugby, schoolboy rugby transfers, Section 28(2), South African Schools Act, under-18 players, Western Province poaching resolution, World Rugby regulations Bought, Not Built: the South African schoolboy rugby market has no rules, and the law of children already has them. The Market in Schoolboy Rugby Players in South Africa: the Law, the Rules, and How the Movement of Children Should Be Governed is a research paper of nearly a hundred… READ MORE