Springbok Trophy Tour - East London

As confirmed the 2019 Rugby World Cup Champions, the Springboks, will be touching down on Buffalo City shores on Saturday to celebrate their victory of being the 2019 Rugby World Cup Champions.

Buffalo City will be welcoming the heroes when they bring the Webb Ellis Cup to our city on Saturday, 09 November 2019, with the world cup winners traveling in the City via various streets and routes as outlined below.

The first stop will be at the East London City Hall at 09h00 am where the BCM Executive Mayor together and the Eastern Cape MEC for Sports will welcome Bok head coach Rassie Erasmus, Captain Siya Kolisi and the team. See below the official route that the team will take during their parade.

To celebrate and be part of the victor tour, we encourage all residents and sports clubs to come out in numbers and show the Boks love by wearing their green and gold jerseys and dedicate their morning activities to the world champions.

We urge the public to bring their Springboks and South African flags and share their tour experience with the following hashtags: #championstogether, #springboks

ROUTE AREAS

• Esplanade
• East London CBD
• Duncan Village
• Parkside
• Buffalo Flats
• Scenery Park
• Reeston
• Mdantsane
• Summerpride
• Amalinda Forest
• Amalinda Main
• Vincent
• Nahoon/ Stirling
• Bunkershill
• Ebuhlanti
• Eastern Beach

ROUTE STREETS

1. Depart from the Esplanade
2. Right into Curry Street
3. Left into Fleet Street
4. Right into Oxford Street
5. Convoy will stop in front of the East London City Hall
6. Meet and greet at the City Hall at 09h00

DEPART FROM ROUTE 1

• Proceed along Oxford Street
• Left into Park Avenue
• Right onto the North West Expressway
• Left into Douglas Smith Highway
• Right into Windyridge Road
• Right into Parkside Road
• Right into Greenpoint Road
• Left into Dunoon Road
• Left onto Mdantsane Access Road
• Right onto link road towards Woolwash Road
• Left into Woolwash Road
• Along Scenery Park Main Road
• Left onto Mdantsane Access Road
• Right into Masaule Road
• Right towards Kakaza
• Left into Billie Road
• Along Spine Road
• Left into Link Road
• Right onto Voortrekker Road R102
• Into Mayfair Avenue
• Into Devereaux Avenue
• Past Vincent Park Shopping Mall
• Right into Old Transkei Road
• Left into Galway Road
• Right into John Bailie Road
• Left into Link Road
• End at Moore Street

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7 Comments

some confusion with Mayfair Avenue in Cambridge, but on map it shows they are coming down Amalinda Main Road.
What is the correct route?

johan 07-11-2019 04:50PM

Good Day Johan,

Thank you for your feedback. We have noted the confusion as well, and have since got in touch with BC Tourism. As soon as we receive any new info we will publish an update.


Best Regards,
The E.L.B.D Team

E.L.B.D Admin 07-11-2019 05:59PM

Hi there. Where would the best place to be to try get signatures of the players as i want to give it tobmy dad as a gift as this could be the last world cup he will ever see due to his illness.
Thank you in advance

Gregory 07-11-2019 07:22PM

Why is Westbank not included in the tour?Suppose it start at the airport down Settlers Way to the City Hall.

Zimkitha 07-11-2019 11:31PM

Why are you excluding Mdantsane and KWT. Give reasons BCM include this areas Bull dogs teammate must be accommodated

Lulekas 08-11-2019 07:23AM

Why are they not breaking their route somewhere like Hudson Primary fields or Stirling High fields making it easier for people to get signatures? They are breaking the routes in all the other towns at least twice we don't get the opportunity.

Leizel Casoojee 08-11-2019 02:42PM

I just want them to come to my house man

Siyabonga Ntsiko 08-11-2019 03:43PM