University of Natal (Durban) Aquatics Team ~ 1985 ~ SA Universities Champs ~ Cape Town — with Shaun Callaghan, Derek Ethelstone, Rory Mapstone, Rob Lumb, Tracey Wannenburg, Udo Jurressen, Pierre Venter, Haden Mottram, Robbie Portsmith, Allan Tenant, Allison Gittings, Peter Mommogos, Herman Chalupsky, Tracy Cockheadand Keith Armstrong in Cape Town, South Africa.

Click here to see the results from SAU in 2008.

1956 SAU at Rhodes

First South African Universities Tournament - 1929 - where they competed for the Roberts Shield

Much of this material is from the private archive of former SAASU president Harry Getz, who was the driving force behind the annual inter-varsity swimming, diving and water polo tournament for many years. In 1961 and 1963 he arranged the participation of South Africa in the Universiades (World Student Games) held in Bulgaria and Brazil.

Intervarsity was not part of the SAASU programme, although the same competitors and officials participated, and new national records were recognized. The host universities were initially UCT, Rhodes and Wits, where students stayed in university dorms during the holidays and swam in the university pool.

13 March 1939 - SAU at Rhodes University in Grahamstown

South African Universities Swimming badge

Stellenbosch c.1985 - Thys Lombard, Ellen Lombard Mason, Herman Nienaber,Libby Burrell, Harald Ruck and Monique Dokter.