The meeting of Orlando Pirates and Cape Town City is set to be the crunch match in Round 29 of the 2018/19 Absa Premiership season, with seven of the eight matches to be played on the afternoon of Saturday 4 May.

The Buccaneers will be battled all the way to finish line by Mamelodi Sundowns who are just three points adrift of the Sea Robbers with a game in hand while Bidvest Wits are hanging on by a thread three points further back.

The Crusaders will look to continue their dominance of the 2019 Super Rugby season when they open Round 11 with a clash at home to the Lions on Friday 26 April.

The race for the title and the relegation dog fight will get tangled up in a midweek set of Absa Premiership fixtures on 23-24 April 2019.

Free State Stars will travel to Thembisa to take on an in-form Highlands Park outfit with Ea Lla Koto in desperate need of maximum points in their quest to escape the dreaded relegation zone.

Bidvest Wits have seen their title aspirations almost fall by the waist-side in recent weeks but they will have a shot at getting their challenge back on track when they travel to the windy city of PE to tackle in-form Chippa United.
 

Orlando Pirates will look to extend their lead at the top of the Absa Premiership when they host Black Leopards on Wednesday for the first of eight league matches this week.

Bidvest Wits will take on Orlando Pirates in an Absa Premiership match at the Bidvest Stadium on Saturday.
 

Round 25 of the 2018/19 Absa Premiership season is headlined by a clash between Bidvest Wits and Orlando Pirates in Johannesburg on Saturday afternoon.

Two teams still harbouring faint hopes of bringing home the ABSA Premiership when the curtain comes down on the season in May, Polokwane City and Kaizer Chiefs, will be gearing up for their final push towards what would be an unlikeliest triumph from the brinks of a campaign filled with heart-break and hardship.