South Africa apologise for interrupting All Blacks’ Haka before Rugby Championship clash - Music and fireworks also sounded ...

blamed the chain of events on "timekeeping challenges and simple human error", saying that the excited cheering of the crowd during the Haka was mistaken for the end of the war dance by an ...

New Zealand perform one of two versions of the war dance before every Test ... was mistaken to have marked the conclusion of the Haka by an unsighted sound engineer who restarted the music ...

The closing moments of the Haka - a traditional Maori war dance - were affected as the pre-match schedule went awry at Ellis Park in Johannesburg on Saturday. The South African Rugby Union wrote ...

The All Blacks have accepted a SA Rugby apology after fireworks, music and a jet flyover drowned out their haka before last ...

The closing moments of the Haka -- a traditional Maori war dance -- were affected as the pre-match schedule went awry at Ellis Park in Johannesburg on Saturday. The South African Rugby Union wrote ...