Fullback Mirko Belloni will make a first start for Italy as one of five changes to their side for the second test against ...

Moerat is the only Muslim player to have ever captained the Springboks. South Africa have won 16 and lost only one of their ...

SCOTLAND'S Under-20s suffered a big defeat against South Africa in the World Championship. The team, led by Kenny Murray, struggled to match the pace and skill of the South Africans in Calvisano, ...

While South Africa’s rugby team has decided not to take a knee before games, former Springbok Bryan Habana says he would have done so if he had the opportunity during his playing days.

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South Africa’s national rugby team was once among the most powerful symbols of the apartheid regime, and as such a prime target of the international sports boycott aimed at ending white rule.

Last year, South Africa won the Rugby World Cup final for a third time, with its first Black captain, Siya Kolisi – who grew up in a township near Port Elizabeth and often went to bed hungry as ...

South African rugby will call in outside advisers to review its finances as it presses on with plans to sell a stake in the World Cup-winning Springboks to a private equity partner, the governing ...

South Africa’s 1995 team had only one non-white player, Chester Williams, but when they won the country’s second Rugby World Cup in 2007, there were six in the squad and two in the starting ...

South African rugby team captain, Francois Pienaar (R), is congratulated by South African President Nelson Mandela (L) after South Africa won the Rugby World Cup final against New Zealand 24 June ...