Tendai ‘Beast’ Mtawarira celebrated victory in his 100th Test appearance for the Springboks as the team clinched the Castle Lager Incoming Series over England at the Toyota Stadium in Bloemfontein on Saturday.
The performance by both the Springboks and the Blitzboks last weekend turned social media into a happy place where South Africans seemed genuinely proud to be South African again.
S’busiso Nkosi, Aphiwe Dyantyi and RG Snyman will make their Springbok debuts on Saturday when South Africa face England in the opening Test of the Castle Lager Incoming Series in Johannesburg.
England head coach Eddie Jones has named a 34-man squad to tour South Africa for a three-Test series in June.
There’s no doubt that the current structure of Super Rugby is overblown. So what would work? England coach Eddie Jones has a suggestion.
Rugby chiefs insisted referee Romain Poite had been completely correct in the way he oversaw Italy’s unorthodox approach to the breakdown during their Six Nations clash against England.
Fiji offers a pointer to the future of South African rugby and, indeed, the country itself.
Six losses out of 10…it has been a horrible year for Allister Coetzee after taking on the ‘poisoned chalice’.
The Springboks have made several changes for the important opening Test of their year end tour against England at Twickenham in London on Saturday.
Allister Coetzee has promised the Springboks will relish the “physical battle” when they face an England side coached by his former colleague Eddie Jones at Twickenham.