{"id":590837,"date":"2026-09-05T08:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T08:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/590837\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T08:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T08:58:10","slug":"springbok-women-coach-de-bruin-denies-money-dispute-drove-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/590837\/","title":{"rendered":"Springbok Women coach De Bruin denies money dispute drove exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swys de Bruin has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/09\/04\/springbok-women-rugby-coach-quits-days-before-hosting-black-ferns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">denied that he quit<\/a> as the South Africa Women&#8217;s rugby coach this week over money.<\/p>\n<p>He said the resignation was planned and was supposed to be held back from being announced until after the women&#8217;s historic first home match against New Zealand on Saturday in the curtain raiser to the men\u2019s test between the same countries at FNB Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I submitted my resignation a long time ago,&#8221; De Bruin told Netwerk24, the Afrikaans-language digital hub, overnight. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s really nothing funny about it, I&#8217;m just moving on. For me it&#8217;s a new season. It&#8217;s not a case of me having a psychological setback or there was a dispute about money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>De Bruin was reported on Friday to have resigned in a dispute over bonuses with South Africa Rugby.<\/p>\n<p>He took charge of the Springbok Women in 2024 and led them to their first quarterfinals at the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup last September in England. He was expected to stay in charge to the 2029 World Cup in Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swys de Bruin has denied that he quit as the South Africa Women&#8217;s rugby coach this week over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[190,10898,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-590837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-africa","tag-black-ferns","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}