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The contest between The Wallabies and The Springboks is one of the major rivalries in rugby union. Since 2000s, the two teams have competed for the Mandela Challenge Plate. The teams' first meeting was on 8 July 1933 at Newlands in Cape Town in the first of 5 tests on the 1933 Wallabies tour. The test was won 17–3 by South Africa who also won ...
The 1993 South Africa rugby union tour of Australia was a series of matches played by the Springboks in Australia during July and August 1993. It was the first tour of the South African team to Australia since the riots of controversial tour of 1971. The test series was won by the Wallabies with two test wins to one.
The Wallabies tied the series with the Springboks winning two and losing two Tests. The tour was one of the highlights of the successful "Thornett Era" of Australian Rugby, buoyed by the leadership skills of skipper John Thornett and the outstanding skills of greats of the game like Ken Catchpole, Peter Johnson and Rob Heming.
The Wallabies haven’t won consecutive test matches in two years and the Springboks haven’t lost two in a row since 2018. ... Coming off the Wallabies’ 28-26 win over the world champion ...
South Africa put Australia to the sword as Eddie Jones’s second stint in charge of the Wallabies got off to a disastrous start.. Kurt-Lee Arendse’s hat-trick powered the Springboks to a seven ...
The 1992 Australia rugby union tour of South Africa was a series of matches played by Australia in South Africa during August 1992. It was the first tour by the Wallabies to South Africa for 23 years.
The 1971 South Africa rugby union tour of Australia was a controversial six-week rugby union tour by the Springboks to Australia. Anti-apartheid protests were held all around the country. [1] The tour is perhaps most infamous for a state of emergency being declared in Queensland. In total, around 700 people were arrested whilst the Springboks ...
Another try gave the Springboks a 21-0 lead at halftime, and the home side never recovered — despite Wallabies assistant coach Laurie Fisher's optimistic comments at halftime.