SOUTH AFRICAN rugby boss Brian van Rooyen yesterday announced the first national squad under coach Jake White, including six black players, to play Ireland and Wales in tests next month.

NIGEL MELVILLE is remembered as a will-o’-the-wisp, slippery scrum-half from his distinguished playing days and he has lost none of his touch, if one is to judge by the sleight of hand he has attempted in a bid to clear banned Gloucester hooker Chris Fortey for tomorrow’s Heineken Cup tie at Kingsholm.

Former Springbok coach Nick Mallett was omitted from a four-man shortlist for the vacant South Africa job today.