SOUTH AFRICA will be hoping they can defend ... When the Springboks won the 1995 Rugby World Cup, both songs were recognised as national anthems with equal standing and played at the tournament ...

A police band performed the national anthem and other iconic South African songs to welcome the squad ... missed the first two editions of the Rugby World Cup because of apartheid era sanctions.

South Africa gets its title defense started at the Rugby World Cup on Sunday. Back in 2019 in Japan, the South Africans used a swarming defense, a solid kicking game and a dominant set-piece to ...

The origins of the South African national anthem having two songs actually comes from the 1995 Rugby World Cup. The Springboks won, and in the aftermath, the government decided to merge two songs ...

The Springboks have tormented England fans in recent years with South Africa twice ... in the Rugby World Cup, leading to one supporter expressing his disappointment in song.

On Saturday, Oct. 28, the South African Springboks National Rugby Team defeated the New Zeland All Blacks National Rugby Team 12-11 to win their fourth World Cup and their first since 2019 and ...

South Africa were firmly on track for the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals as they ran in seven tries to knock Tonga out with a 49-18 victory in their last Pool B game on Sunday. Cobus Reinach ...

where the first ever red card in a Rugby World Cup final left the All Blacks a man short for nearly three-quarters of the match against South Africa, the No. 1 rugby union team in the world.

South Africa's rugby union team are back home from France after winning the World Cup for a record fourth time. The players were met at OR Tambo Airport in Johannesburg by a huge, rapturous crowd ...

Rugby, and the World Cup in particular, is intertwined with South Africa’s history, still evoking memories of President Nelson Mandela’s effort to unite the country in the post-apartheid era ...

By Pete McKenzie Reporting from Wellington, New Zealand As the championship match of the 2023 Rugby World Cup ticked into its last half minute, South Africa’s Springboks, the defending champions ...