South Africa international Handre Pollard will face a lengthy period on the sidelines after rupturing his anterior cruciate ligaments while playing for the Top14 club Montpellier.
South Africa players will be able to resume full contact training from next week after the restrictions set to ease following the pandemic coronavirus.
South Africa Rugby is planning to resume professional rugby next month after receiving green-light from the government for full-contact training sessions and games without spectators.
Incoming South Africa head coach Jacques Nienaber has warned that the Springboks players should get sufficient match time if they are to feature in the upcoming Rugby Championship tournament at the end of the year.
New Zealand Rugby's proposal of a revamped model of Super Rugby competition for the 2021 season has received backlash from South Africa Rugby chief executive Jurie Roux.
New Zealand Rugby revealed plans to leave out South African Super Rugby teams and Argentina's Jaguares from next year to make the competition more competitive.
British and Irish Lions head coach Warren Gatland said England international Maro Itoje is in contention for the captaincy for the upcoming tour of South Africa next year.
World champions South Africa and Japan could join the Six Nations teams in the autumn series as Rugby Football Union considering various options to recover from the financial crisis created by the pandemic coronavirus.
South Africa players are all set to resume training after the Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture Nathi Mthethwa briefed on the guidelines as they are staging a recovery from the pandemic coronavirus.
World Cup winning South Africa international Cheslin Kolbe said he would be preferring the series against British and Irish Lions next year over the Tokyo Olympics.
When Huddersfield RUFC unveiled Andre Snyman as their backs and skills coach, the former South Africa international coined himself as an ‘adopted Yorkshireman’.
The British and Irish Lions stated that they are open-minded about any change in schedule to their tour of South Africa following the pandemic coronavirus.
South Africa Rugby has announced that they are unlikely to make any immediate change to the fixtures of the British and Irish Lions series amid the coronavirus crisis.