Baxter: No one said if I don’t qualify for World Cup, I may as well pack up and go

Coach Stuart Baxter said the two back-to-back defeats against Cape Verde in September had shattered Bafana’s Word Cup hopes.

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Recent history places Boks firmly as the underdogs

The last time the Boks won north of the equator was when they beat Argentina in the bronze medal play-off in London at the 2015 Rugby World Cup.

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De Bruyn, Miller take Knights home

Theunis de Bruyn certainly made the home side pay heavily for the dropped catches as he smashed Colin Ackerman for three sixes in one over.

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Dubuisson in the lead, but Fichardt still in #NGC2017 hunt

“The rough has been brutal in the past, but the elements were the toughest I’ve experienced,” said Fichardt.

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