The launch of ticket sales for the HSBC Cape Town Sevens in December has broken all previous records for the event in South Africa, said a delighted Jurie Roux, CEO of the South African Rugby Union (SARU) on Monday.
An astonishing 21 000 tickets were sold within the first hour of sales opening on Friday and to 11am today (Monday) 35 000 tickets had been snapped up.
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