{"id":469335,"date":"2026-03-11T09:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/469335\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T09:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:10:13","slug":"sale-sharks-sign-under-the-radar-south-african-prop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/469335\/","title":{"rendered":"Sale Sharks sign ‘under the radar’ South African prop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sale Sharks<\/a> have signed tighthead prop Cebo Dlamini<\/a> from Griquas<\/a> on a two-year deal ahead of next season.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old, who captained Griquas during their victorious Currie Cup<\/a> campaign last year, will join Alex Sanderson\u2019s side from the start of next season.<\/p>\n

Despite spending the past three years with Griquas, the South African went on loan to the Sharks earlier this season, featuring in the United Rugby Championship<\/a> and the Investec Champions Cup, before joining Dragons on another loan spell in December.<\/p>\n

Sale<\/a> have taken giant strides to bolster their front-row stocks ahead of next season, with Welsh duo Nicky Smith<\/a> and Tomas Francis<\/a> also arriving at the club.<\/p>\n

Sanderson has described the prop as a \u201crare find\u201d after the signing was announced, with South African props being one of the most sough-after commodities in the game. <\/p>\n

Fixture<\/p>\n

Gallagher Premiership<\/p>\n

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Exeter Chiefs <\/p>\n

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Sale <\/p>\n

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\u201cI want to find a club that I can call home so I can try and reach my full potential,\u201d the prop said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know that a lot of South African players have gone to the PREM and become much better players through the quality and professionalism of the league.<\/p>\n

\u201cSale have dominant forwards and have always been known for having a big, powerful, dynamic pack. I like a forward-dominant game, I love the set-piece and the scrum and I think the style will really suit me.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know Sale have a lot of good front row players and I\u2019m looking forward to testing myself in training every day against international players like Bevan Rodd<\/a> and Nicky Smith. I think the squad and the club will be in a really good place over the next couple of years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve heard the club has really passionate supporters and I can\u2019t wait to come over and put my best foot forward for them. It\u2019s a club that\u2019s hungry to win silverware and I really want to be a part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sanderson added: \u201cCebo is a really positive guy, an infectious character who likes to laugh and who\u2019s captained his club at 24 years old. On top of that he\u2019s a really good player.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s powerful, dynamic, can hold down that side of the scrum and his close quarters work is excellent. If anyone comes down his channel, he\u2019s going to level them.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he could be a really rare find for us. He\u2019s gone under the radar his whole career but clearly he has the potential to be a really good Prem player because basics are very, very good.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sale Sharks have signed tighthead prop Cebo Dlamini from Griquas on a two-year deal ahead of next season.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-469335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}