South Africa win record fourth Rugby World Cup in dramatic final
South Africa clinched a record fourth Rugby World Cup title by doing just enough to deny 14-man New Zealand and retain their crown in a helter-skelter final in Paris.
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South Africa clinched a record fourth Rugby World Cup title by doing just enough to deny 14-man New Zealand and retain their crown in a helter-skelter final in Paris.
Springbok winger and 2018 World Rugby Breakthrough Player of the Year Aphiwe Dyantyi has received a four-year ban for taking three banned substances, a senior South African rugby official told AFP on Sunday.
After the Springboks lost 57-0 to the All Blacks, followed by defeats to Ireland and Wales on their end-of-year tour, Tendai Mtawarira was ready to call it a day.
World Cup hero Tendai “Beast’’ Mtawarira has a message for all the boys in this country who hope to one day touch the heights he has scaled — just chase your dreams with everything that you have, and it’s possible to conquer Mount Everest. He has also been showering Peterhouse with praises, describing it as an amazing institution, and revealing he would love to get his son to enrol at the prestigious Marondera school.
When it was all over, the triumphant Beast looked for his kids, brought them onto the field and left them to enjoy the glory of the royalty that comes with being World Champions.
South Africa stunned pre-match favourites England 32-12 with a brutally effective forward display to win their third World Cup in Yokohama on Saturday.
Peter de Villiers said it was sad to hear Tendai Mtawarira saying that the former national coach’s “methods and approach didn’t really work with the Springboks”.
Flanker Siya Kolisi will become South Africa’s first black Test captain in the three-match series against England next month. The 26-year-old – who has played 28 international Tests – replaces the injured Warren Whiteley as captain.
Former South Africa captain Joost van der Westhuizen has died aged 45, six years after he was diagnosed with the debilitating motor neurone disease. Van der Westhuizen won the World Cup with the Springboks in 1995. Regarded as one of the finest scrum-halves in history, he won 89 international caps between 1993 and 2003, scoring […]
Bryan Habana scored a hat-trick of tries to equal Jonah Lomu’s record as South Africa reached the World Cup quarter-finals by thrashing USA.