Wales 16 South Africa 17

Ireland 9 England 20

Ireland 9 England 13

Fourie du Preez and Heinrich Brussow have been recalled to the South Africa starting line-up for the first time in 21 months for Saturday’s Tri Nations clash with Australia in Durban.

England manager Martin Johnson has named an unchanged team for Saturday’s RBS 6 Nations clash with Italy at Twickenham.

Hendre Fourie has replaced Joe Worsley in the England squad to play Italy in Saturday’s RBS 6 Nations match at Twickenham after proving he has recovered from a calf strain.

Blue Bulls centre Wynand Olivier has been ruled out of South Africa’s year-end grand slam tour due to a groin injury.

South Africa 39 Australia 41

Centre Jaque Fourie has urged South Africa to stick together as a team against Australia if they are to end the recent slump that has taken in four consecutive losses.

SOUTH AFRICA coach Peter de Villiers says Frans Steyn’s kicking ability was the decisive factor in his selection for the Tri Nations encounter against Australia on Saturday.

The Australian Rugby Union will appeal a two-week suspension handed down to fly-half Quade Cooper for a dangerous tackle in the Wallabies’ 30-13 win over South Africa at the weekend.

IN-FORM Australia fly-half Quade Cooper has been suspended for two weeks after being cited for a dangerous tackle during Australia’s Tri Nations Test 30-13 win against South Africa.

Australia 30 South Africa 13

New Zealand 31 South Africa 17

Jean de Villiers has withdrawn from the South Africa team to play Wales on June 5 due to injury.

Fourie du Preez has revealed plans to quit South Africa and head to Japan to further his career following next year’s Rugby World Cup.

Jaque Fourie has won the International Rugby Players’ Association Try of the Year award for 2009 after his effort for South Africa against the Lions in Pretoria.

Ireland bring down the curtain on their autumn internationals with one eye on avenging the Lions’ Test series defeat by South Africa.

AS Jonathan Sexton embarks on an international career he hopes will be paved with gold, he might look for inspiration from someone of similar age from the southern hemisphere, a young man he will get to know very soon.

Italy 10 South Africa 32

Wales scrum-half Mike Phillips and South Africa counterpart Fourie du Preez have been added to the Barbarians squad to face the All Blacks on December 5.

MUNSTER manager Shaun Payne has laughed off claims that new South African signing Jean De Villiers has had a change of heart about joining the province.

Australia 25 South Africa 32

Ronan O’Gara has revealed that he was knocked out cold moments before he missed a crucial tackle in the British & Irish Lions’ second Test defeat by South Africa.

NEW ZEALAND were left to lament costly errors after going down 28-19 to South Africa in the Tri-Nations match in Bloemfontein on Saturday.

SOUTH AFRICA coach Peter de Villiers has backed Jaque Fourie to fill the void created by the loss of centre Adi Jacobs for the Springboks’ Tri-Nations opener against New Zealand on Saturday.

THE smiles were back and promises kept as the 2009 British and Irish Lions produced the performance of this South African tour to emphatically avoid a whitewash at Ellis Park, Johannesburg on Saturday with a victory that highlighted just how unlucky they were to lose the three-game Test series.

Mike Phillips has slammed the “punching and gouging” Springboks as the British and Irish Lions painfully licked their wounds today following one of Test rugby’s most ferocious matches.

Scotland 10 South Africa 14

Wales 12 South Africa 34

SOUTH AFRICA centre Jaque Fourie claims his team have made no special plans to counteract England’s expected forwards-based approach in the run-up to Saturday’s World Cup final.

ARGENTINA winger Ignacio Corleto has lit the fuse ahead of Sunday’s World Cup semi-final by labelling South Africa arrogant — and he is determined to put the Springboks in their place.

SPRINGBOK coach Jake White saluted the leadership of his senior players after South Africa survived a major World Cup quarter-final fright against Fiji at Stade Velodrome.

South Africa 37 Fiji 20

South Africa 64 United States 15

England 0 South Africa 20

SPRINGBOK coach Jake White has dismissed any prospect of complacency creeping into the South African camp as they prepare for a World Cup showdown with England.

Former India skipper Sourav Ganguly and Gautam Gambhir put on 164 for the second wicket as Ireland were comprehensively thrashed at Stormont.

Winless Ireland slumped to another defeat in the Friends Provident Trophy - this time by six wickets to Middlesex – after being slayed by two former Emerald Isles internationals.

Jaque Fourie has been ruled out of South Africa’s tour of Ireland and England after suffering an injury in training today.

SOUTH AFRICA coach Jake White has warned centre pairing Jean de Villiers and Jaque Fourie to start living up to their impressive reputations or face the axe.

Argentina 23 South Africa 34

South Africa coach Jake White has sprung a surprise by switching Jean de Villiers to the wing in place of Breyton Paulse to face New Zealand in Dunedin on Saturday.