South Africa

South Africa ran in twelve tries and shut-out Namibia in a thoroughly dominant display over their African neighbours at North Harbour Stadium on Thursday night.

Namibia are really up against it at North Harbour Stadium on Thursday night as they confront a Springbok side buoyed by their blitzing of Fiji last Saturday.

Compared to that which played against Wales, it was a different Springbok side which turned out against Fiji today, the world champions seemed to have transformed to their old efficient selves in a space of just six days

With a slightly changed line up, the world champions are going onto their second world cup battle with knowledge that the opposition has it in for them.

South Africa denied Wales what would have been a famous victory as they started the defence of the World Cup with a 17-16 win in Wellington.

Stephen Jones' injury makes him the big name absentee from Wales' opening World Cup clash with South Africa on Sunday

A player who might be surprised to be left out is the young Sharks flier Lwazi Mvovo who seemed to be on an upward curve performance wise

18 points from the boot of Morne Steyn and a tremendous defensive display saw South Africa pick up their first win of this year's Tri-Nations, over a weakened New Zealand side.

New Zealand put a second string Springbok side to the sword scoring six tries extremely one sided encounter in Wellington.

Australia banished the memories of their shock defeat to Samoa a week ago, with a dominant display against a very poor and weakened South African side in Sydney.

Patrick Lambie is one of the most talked about young players in rugby and it was his displays for the Sharks in this year's Super rugby competition that started tongue's waging

We caught up with Springboks legend Corne Krige who was a pleasure to talk to.

The end of this year's super rugby brings forth another tournament that most rugby fans in the southern will be looking at with close interest, especially because this is a world cup year

This is my prediction for South Africa's strongest World Cup starting 22. Let us know your thoughts and who would you include in your starting 22?

So as we reach to the end of the Northern Hemisphere season what is happening down under

n terms of the growth of the team, we're very happy with the progress so far. We've been able to integrate a great crop of younger players into the squad