The University Stellenbosch Fencing Club is based at Coetzenburg, at the gymnasium. The club has been active for decades and has a rich history in fencing instructors from France as well as Italy and Russia. The club has a legacy of rich fencing culture that is balanced with healthy social activity. At the moment it is the strongest University based fencing club in the country, constantly setting new standards.

Cape Fencing Academy - Learn the sport of Olympic fencing in Cape Town

Fencing was first introduced to the Cape by the officers of the British army during the Anglo-Boer war. It was pursued at local schools such as Bishops and SACS but not formally given concrete expression until the 1950s and 1960s. A Royal Navy officer, Captain Barber, serving at the Cape station at Simonstown later to become a full blown Admiral in the RN, introduced serious gymnastics into the Cape in the 1950s and along with it, came fencing. Mr Len Davids recalls the really serious boost to fencing emanating (appropriately) from a leadership conference held in the Western Cape in the mid 1960s which introduced adjudication training in gymnastics, fencing and jujitsu. Out of this conference organized fencing in the Cape took a more coherent form in the shape of the Amateur Fencing Association of the Cape Province. At that time the Cape Province covered a vast area and included such remote outposts as Kimberley, Upington and Grahamstown with all their attendant responsibilities...

En Garde School of the Sword, was founded in Cape Town in 1999 by David Wagenfeld. Manages Table Mountain fencing + HEMA club, which is a dynamic a social-focus adult community in Newlands. We also run highly successful school clubs at Westerford, SACS junior and Bishops Prep, as well Peninsula Swords youth club in Newlands. 2023 also re-launching False Bay fencing in Fish Hoek. For our youth program, please see engardefencing. co. za and for the adult club tablemountainhema. co. za

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