If you ever wanted to know how South Africa won three World Cups or keeps churning out rugby talent at an extraordinary rate, I’d recommend you wallow in the SuperSport Schools app or check out DStv channel 216 over the Easter weekend.

Better still, buy a ticket and visit any of the festivals in person.

Between now and over the weekend, 10 such festivals will be held across the land, in plush suburbia, in working class areas and on sparse township grounds. Talent will range from middling to magnificent, and rugby’s brotherhood will bind them all.

Even by sport’s absurd standards for hyperbole, the coming week ranks as South African rugby’s greatest showcase – year after year. Not only is the rugby fiercely competitive, South Africa’s appetite for the schoolboy game can sustain 10 festivals at once, four of them in Joburg alone.

Much of the talent is sublime, so too the action which consistently nourishes the SA game.

Almost every one of South Africa’s best schools is represented, and also the contenders and those for whom the sport is simply one that they play and enjoy..

It would be disingenuous to say that spectators flood venues only on account of the rugby. There is a thriving social dimension to every festival, invariably involving banter, beer, biltong and bragging, and it is never dull.

I’ll be manning a beer tent on Saturday morning, but on either side of my parental duty, I’ll be getting my rugby fill by flitting across Joburg, seeking out the most appealing showdowns.

No matter if you can’t do similarly.

In all, over 320 matches will be streamed on the SuperSport app, taking in the St John’s, St Stithians, Kearsney, King Edward, Michaelhouse, Jeppe Boys (u-16), Mxoz Media, Maritzburg College Skonk, Willie le Roux (Paul Roos) and Tommy Esterhuizen (Eastern Cape) festivals.

SuperSport Schools (DStv 216) will broadcast big chunks of the Kearsney and St John’s Festivals on Thursday, KES and St John’s on Saturday and matches from Kearsney and St Stithians on Monday.