Rugby
Rugby opens new frontier by picking US as World Cup hosts
Australia will hold the men's World Cup in 2027 with the women's tournaments going to England (2025), Australia (2029) and the United States (2033).
Rugby Africa, the continent’s governing body, voted against South Africa, making the betrayal even more hurtful but not surprising.
Ben Kay, a 2003 World Cup winner, is concerned that rugby is not as safe as it could be, and parents will no longer allow children to take up playing.
The first clinic was held in Durban and the young women and men received a motivation talk from the country’s finest rugby players, including Kolisi himself.
The 30-year-old lock arrived at the French club in 2019, but this season played just once, Saturday's 21-18 win over Top 14 leaders Bordeaux Begles, which moved Toulon off the bottom of the table.
The 26-year-old McKenzie, who has played at both fly-half and full-back in recent years, has arrived in Japan to replace fellow All Black Beauden Barrett, who had a six-month sabbatical with Sungoliath last season.
England fashioned fine tries for Manu Tuilagi, Freddie Steward and Raffi Quirke to just one from South Africa's Makazole Mapimpi.
He had produced a video pointing to what he believed to be 26 errors made by referee Nic Berry.
Captain Siya Kolisi's side are unbeaten against Saturday's hosts since 2010, a run of six straight wins that includes the 30-year-old's Test debut eight years ago.
The Boks suffered an early blow with Damian Willemse leaving the field to be assessed for a head injury.
Here's a breakdown of the players selected for the World Rugby's Rugby Championship team of the tournament, which includes four Springboks.
EWN Sport has compiled a list of recent South African signings, both locally and abroad.
The 'World 12s' event, which is backed by a UK-based financial consortium and has yet to attain the backing of any federation, aims to pit the globe's top players against each other in a 12 v 12 format over 30-minute matches.
The two Tests marked the Springbok Women's first international action in almost two years.
The home side saw several changes following their series victory over the British and Irish Lions in Cape Town last Saturday.
Springbok assistant coach Deon Davids insists world champions are not boring after NZ coach says watching them 'put me to sleep'.
Speaking less than an hour before the 1600 GMT kick-off, the New Zealander said: "We are going face 20 minutes of hell. It will be tough and hard, an arm wrestle, and we must maintain our discipline."
At the start of the game both teams seemed disjointed and unsure, a slow start from both sides who only got confirmation of this game happening on Friday.
The Siya Kolisi-captained Springboks last played on 2 November 2019, when they thumped England 32-12 to lift the Webb Ellis trophy a record-equalling third time.