ROUND ONE PREVIEW: The first round of the Rugby Championship will answer a plethora of questions that have been voiced throughout the week in the build-up to the encounter between South Africa and Australia at Ellis Park on Saturday.
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Are the Springboks battle-hardened after some mediocre opposition against Italy and Georgia in their first Test outings this year?
Springbok captain Siya Kolisi runs out in the unfamiliar No.8 jersey. Will that experiment work?
Can Australia maintain the consistency they built up in the three-Test series against the British and Irish Lions and keep up that standard in the Rugby Championship? They’ve finished last in each of the last two…
Press Freedom: South Africa has a constitution that guarantees freedom of the
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Fun South African Fact: Mandela’s house on Vilakazi Street is now a museum. The man who the street was named after, Dr BW Vilakazi, was a poet, novelist and intellectual. He helped develop the written form of both isiZulu and siSwati and helped put together the isiZulu dictionary.