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Springbok coach Allister Coetzee has made 10 changes to the match-23 for Saturday’s Test against France in Paris, which include starts for experienced No 8 Duane Vermeulen and flyhalf Handré Pollard.

Extra seats will be installed and 3000 additional tickets per day be made available for the previously sold-out HSBC Cape Town Sevens tournament, SA Rugby confirmed on Thursday.

The DHL Stormers and Vodacom Blue Bulls will break new ground when they face each other in a pre-season encounter in Los Angeles on 3 February, 2018.

The Springbok Sevens team were named South African Sports Team of the Year at the annual SA Sport Awards in Johannesburg on Sunday evening.

Experienced No 8 Duane Vermeulen has been called up to the Springbok squad as replacement for Coenie Oosthuizen who sustained a serious knee injury on Saturday in Dublin.

Experienced props Tendai Mtawarira and Coenie Oosthuizen, as well as inside centre Damian de Allende, all return to the Springbok starting team to face Ireland on Saturday evening (kick-off at 19h30 SA time) at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin.

Springbok Women’s Sevens coach Renfred Dazel said on Wednesday the intensity of their training sessions will increase significantly in the next two weeks as they finalise their preparations for the Women’s HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series leg in Dubai from 30 November to 1 December.

Springbok coach Allister Coetzee said he is happy to have a fully fit squad to choose from for the Springboks’ Castle Lager Outgoing Tour opener against Ireland in Dublin on Saturday.

Kwagga Smith is one of four South Africans starting for the Barbarians against the All Blacks this weekend.

Springbok Sevens player Rosko Specman is one of the three candidates for the World Rugby Sevens Player of the Year Award for 2017.