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.

SOUTH AFRICA flanker Schalk Burger has had his four-match ban reduced to just two games after appealing against the original decision.

Springbok coach Jake White has named his team to face Connacht at the Sports Ground in Galway, Ireland, on August 21.

There were few surprise inclusions as South Africa named their 30-man World Cup squad today.

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Jannie du Plessis will make his South Africa debut against Australia on Saturday in the Tri-Nations encounter in Sydney.

WORLD CUP hero Phil Vickery took England back to basics as they avoided the humiliation of a record eighth successive Test defeat, and then declared: “Sometimes you have to just dog it out.”

World Cup-winning scrum-half Joost van der Westhuizen is the biggest of the six names axed from the South Africa side to face Australia in Brisbane on Saturday.

SCOTLAND coach Ian McGeechan has made five changes to the side for tomorrow’s Test match against South Africa in Durban.

South Africa coach Rudolf Straeuli has named four uncapped players in a new-look starting XV for the first Test against Scotland in Durban on Saturday.