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The Herald
5 days ago
- Sport
- The Herald
All the vibes from Saturday's rugby Test and entertainment in pictures
Relive the razzmatazz and on-field action from Saturday's international rugby at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium through this gallery featuring images captured by one of The Herald's photographers, FREDLIN ADRIAAN FLYING IN: Springbok hero Edwill van der Merwe evades a tackle by Italy's Alessandro Fusco as he dives over the line for a disallowed try during Saturday's Test at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Image: FREDLIN ADRIAAN PATRIOTIC NOTES: Gqeberha-born performer Belinda Davids sings the SA anthem Image: FREDLIN ADRIAAN RAPPY CHAP: Artist Early B performs before the match Image: FREDLIN ADRIAAN GROUP EFFORT: Early B performs with the GQ dancers Image: FREDLIN ADRIAAN EVASIVE ACTION: Springbok wing Makazole Mapimpi gets moving against Italy at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium on Saturday Image: FREDLIN ADRIAAN FULLY FOCUSED: Manie Libbok during Saturday's Test against Italy at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Image: FREDLIN ADRIAAN SKY-HIGH: Springboks Edwill van der Merwe (14) and Pieter-Steph du Toit tussle for the ball with Italy's Jacopo Trulla Image: FREDLIN ADRIAAN SHOWING SUPPORT: The Springbok Women vs Canada game at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium on Saturday Image: FREDLIN ADRIAAN BREAKING FREE: Action during the Springbok Women vs Canada game Image: FREDLIN ADRIAAN GOING DOWN: A Springbok Women player is tackled during the game against Canada Image: FREDLIN ADRIAAN Springbok Fan Highlights at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Explore our match-day fan gallery to see if you were caught in action backing the Boks.
BBC News
12-07-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Rampant South Africa crush Italy 45-0 despite early red card
South Africa (24) 45Tries: Williams, Van der Merwe 2, Moodie, Marx, Mapimpi, Wessels Cons: Libbok 5 Italy (0) 0 Reigning world champions South Africa made light work of an early red card for forward Jasper Wiese to thump Italy 45-0 in Springboks produced some stunning rugby, with their trademark power added to by some brilliant open running as they won the series pushed them in last weekend's meeting in Pretoria but they offered little, even with an extra man for nearly an Grant Williams opened the scoring with a wonderful team try as the Boks scored four times in the first eight Jasper Wiese saw red in the 22nd minute for a headbutt on Danil Fischetti to dampen his family's day - as brother Cobus made his Springboks debut in the second are the 37th set of brothers to play for South Marx, Makazole Mapimpi and Jan-Hendrick Wessels scored after the restart as South Africa extended their record of never losing a Test in Gqeberha, the city in the Eastern Cape formerly known as Port opening try was breathtaking as South Africa ran the ball from deep in their own half. Edwill van der Merwe broke the line with a driving run before finding his opposite wing Mapimpi on the left. He took the ball on before looking up and feeding Williams to der Merwe scored a brilliant finish while being tackled, and he then ran in after a clever kick through from Willie le Roux - on his 100th cap - foxed the recovering Italy Moodie bounced off two tackles to score a fourth as Italy floundered. South Africa were briefly down to 13 men early in the second half as prop Wilco Louw was shown a yellow card for a high tackle on Sebastian Fischetti soon joined him to reduce Italy's advantage and the home side added another try when Marx powered over from a ran in untouched on the overlap late on and replacement Wessels touched down with the final action of the game. Line-ups South Africa: Le Roux, E. van der Merwe, Moodie, Esterhuizen, Mapimpi, Libbok, Williams; T. du Toit, Marx, W. Louw, Moerat, Nortje, van Staden, P. du Toit, J. Wessels, Nche, Ntlabakanye, C. Wiese, Roos, Reinach, Feinberg, Mngomezulu, Belloni, Lynagh, Menoncello, Zanon, Trulla, Da Re, A. Garbisi; Fischetti, Di Bartolomeo, Ferrari, N. Cannone, Zambonin, Negri, Zuliani, Dimcheff, Spagnolo, Hasa, Canali, Izekor, Odiase, Varney, Andrew Brace (IRFU)
