Springboks to host Ireland

South Africa will host Ireland, the only country they lost to when winning the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France, in a two-Test series next July. SA Rugby announced on Friday that the countries will meet in Pretoria on July 6 and in Durban on July 13. Since the Springboks won a home series against the Irish in 2016, they have met three times with Ireland winning each international. […]

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’95 RWC Winner Hannes Strydom dies in vehicle accident

Springbok and 1995 Rugby World Cup winner Hannes Strydom died after his car collided with a minibus taxi to the north-east Johannesburg. South African Rugby president Mark Alexander said yesterday that the crash that claimed the life of the 58-year-old pharmacist occurred on Sunday near the coal-mining town of eMalahleni, 140 kilometres from the South African economic capital. Strydom won 21 caps for South Africa between 1993 and 1997 and […]

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