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Springboks head coach Rassie Erasmus believes the pressure will rise at Twickenham on Saturday after the hosts lost their opening two autumn Tests

The Scots went down 32-15 to the double world champions at Murrayfield after dominating long periods of the second half.

South Africa’s finance minister, Enoch Godongwana, announced in his October mid-term budget policy statement that cabinet had approved funding for an early retirement programme to reduce the public sector wage bill. R11 billion (about US$627 million) will be allocated over the next two years to pay for the exit costs…

Makazole Mapimpi scored two tries as world champions South Africa returned to the top of the world rankings with a 32-15 win over Scotland at Murrayfield on Sunday.

Gregor Townsend felt Scotland produced one of their best performances of recent years as they threatened an upset against world champions South…

The head coach’s gameplan exploded in his face again against Australia. South Africa are up next … do the players believe in it?

Scotland closed gap to four points in second-half but could not pull off famous win

Townsend praised the display as ‘one of our best performances of the last few seasons’.

Scotland produced a spirited display but lacked the guile to get over the line as they went down to a 32-15 defeat by world champions South Africa…

Tom Curry is also unavailable.

Scotland threw everything at this match but South Africa ran in four tries to claim a 32-15 victory