PICTURES: Boks bid farewell to South Africa
The Springboks departed South Africa’s shores on Saturday determined to make the country proud and hopeful that they could deliver the quality of play worthy of defending their world champions’ title as they headed to Cardiff for the first stop on their way to France for the World Cup.
The Boks will face Wales in Cardiff on Saturday, August 19, and New Zealand in London the following Friday (August 25), in their last two warm-up games before departing for a week-long training camp in Corsica en route to their tournament base in Toulon. The opening match is against Scotland in Marseille on Sunday, September 10.
This will be followed by pool matches against Romania in Bordeaux (September 17), Ireland in Paris (September 23) and Tonga in Marseille (October 1).
The handing over of the South African flag to our national teams is a symbolic moment, as it signifies that all 60 million South Africans are behind our team. Do us proud @Springboks! The whole nation is behind you. Yivale madoda! #StrongerTogether #RWC2023 pic.twitter.com/V30vWBz1a3
— Minister of Sport, Arts & Culture (@zizikodwa) August 12, 2023
Source: @Springboks
