SOUTH AFRICA hope that a turbulent week, which began with two players being sent home for failing drugs tests, will end with their Grand Slam mission three-quarters complete later today.

South Africa wing Bryan Habana will play no further part on the tour of Ireland and the UK after breaking a bone in his hand during training.

South Africa have made three changes to the starting XV, with one positional switch, for Saturday’s Test against Scotland at Murrayfield.

South Africa duo Bjorn Basson and Chiliboy Ralepelle are to be sent home from the tour of Britain and Ireland after testing positive for a banned stimulant.

SOUTH AFRICA captain Victor Matfield will take comfort in familiarity if not experience when he leads the world champions out to take on Ireland at the Aviva Stadium tomorrow (5.30pm).

NORTHAMPTON were crowned Challenge Cup champions after surviving a ferocious assault from French bruisers Bourgoin at Twickenham Stoop last night.

Bourgoin 22 Worcester 11

The leader of apartheid South Africa’s germ warfare programme, dubbed Dr Death, today said he had no regrets and criticised police, called his prosecutors ‘‘irrational’’ and said his trial had been a huge waste of money.

Apartheid-era germ warfare expert Wouter Basson - dubbed Dr Death - was today cleared of all 46 charges of murder, conspiracy, fraud and drug dealing by a South African court.

A South African chemical warfare expert claims the US used hallucinogenic weapons against Iraq in the Gulf War.

The head of apartheid South Africa’s chemical and biological warfare program said today he had been given unlimited power to further his programme.