Pollard, 27, who last played for the Springboks in the 2019 World Cup final, has been out since September with a serious knee injury after making just two appearances this season.
Etzebeth, 29, last played in a heavy Top 14 defeat away to Lyon on March 27.
Former rugby international Christophe Dominici, who was found dead at the age of 48 in a park near Paris on Tuesday, was undoubtedly one of the legends of modern French rugby.
Video footage captures Springbok captain Siya Kolisi making an impassioned plea to his coach to come forward with him after South Africa had beaten England 32-12 in the final in Yokohama.
Twelve teams have already qualified by virtue of their top-three finishes in their respective pools at last year’s World Cup.
Francis Baron, a former chief executive of England's Rugby Football Union, put forward a scheme to stage a 16-team invitational tournament to be staged in Britain and Ireland next June and July based on the 2015 World Cup hosted by England.
The RFU faces losses of up to $61 million over the next year-and-a-half due to the outbreak but will still provide a 7 million-pound relief package to community clubs in the country.
The Springboks won Team of the Year at the 2020 Laureus World Sports Awards in Berlin, Germany, on Monday evening. During the winners' press conference, the team spoke about what it was like for them in the second half of the 2019 Rugby World Cup and the significance of the award to the pride of the country.
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Nienaber was the defence coach of the Springboks when they won the World Cup a record-equalling third time last November by defeating England 32-12 in the final in Yokohama.
The retired Jamaican sprint superstar jogged 200 metres around the track in an exhibition relay race alongside paralympic athletes, in the first public event at the 60,000-seater stadium.
Joseph was among 26 New Zealanders invited by the All Blacks to replace Steve Hansen, who stepped down at the end of the World Cup this month.
The Boks toured Durban on Friday where they were welcomed by a sea of supporters after winning the Webb Ellis Trophy last Saturday.
Fans lined the streets of Pretoria, waving flags and singing the national anthem as the Springboks kicked off the Gauteng leg of their World Cup Victory Tour.
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The Boks will go on a champion's tour starting on Thursday in Pretoria, Johannesburg and Soweto.
A timeline of Rugby World Cup champions since 1987.
Eddie Jones, appointed after England's woeful first-round exit on home soil at the 2015 edition, almost achieved his four-year plan of turning them into world champions only for South Africa to overwhelm the Red Rose brigade 32-12 in Saturday's final in Yokohama.
