South Africa Winners RWC 2007

South Africa Won their second Rugby World Cup in France 2007. Beating England in the final in a dour contest by 15-6. This followed their demolition of the side in Pool 'A' 36-0 and meant England exceeded expectations in reaching the final.

Springboks To Head Pool 'D'

The Springboks win in France 2007 guaranteed qualification for the finals in New Zealand. IRB ranked 2nd though they have been number 1 for quite some time the Springboks followed up their World Cup win with an exciting if close win in the series against the British & Irish Lions but as a tired squad fell short in the autumn of 2009 during their tour or Europe. they are grouped in Pool D with Wales, Fiji, Samoa and Namibia. They without doubt are the strongest team in the pool and we anticipate they will be easy winners of pool 'D'.

South African Players To Watch

South Africa have a wealth of new talent coming through, but some of the old hands will probably make the difference, the likes of: Victor Matfield, Morné Steyn, Jean de Villiers, Ruan Pienaar and new boys such as Heinrich Brussow, Tendai Mtawarira and Chiliboy Ralepelle. Whatever we expect South Africa to be one of the favourites to be looking to hoist the cup for a third time and be the first to win it back to back.

South Africa News

Teams for South Africa v Australia 5 Sept 2010 - South Africa have made one change for their final Tri-Nations match against Australia in Bloemfontein on Saturday as 2nd row Danie Rossouw, returns replacing Filip van der Merwe

South Africa win seesaw match - South Africa 44-31 Australia - South Africa recovered from a error strewn start to beat Australia and move to second place in the Tri-Nations

South Africa v Australia teams Saturday 28 August - The teams for the match in Pretoria on Saturday have been announced and South Africa will honour Victor Matfield with 30,000 lookalikes in the crowd as he runs on for his 100th cap just one behind skipper John Smit

All Blacks win Tri-Nations - South Africa 22-29 New Zealand - New Zealand won the 2010 Tri-Nations title having been behind all match until they scored two late tries the first on 78 minutes to win in Johannesburg, in front of some 90,000 fans

Teams for Saturdays match South Africa v All Blacks - Peter de Villiers has made seven player changes and one position move for Saturday's Tri-Nations match against New Zealand at the 90,000-capacity FNB Stadium, formerly Soccer City, venue for last month's World Cup football final, and it will be the first time the Springboks have played in the township of Soweto