Rugby union in South Africa
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Rugby union in South Africa is a highly popular team sport, along with cricket and soccer, and is widely played all over the country. South Africa has the largest proportion of rugby union supporters
Springbok Percy Montgomery weaves his way towards the try-line against Samoa on 9 June 2007
British Isles v Cape Colony, the first match of the British Isles tour of South Africa in 1891
The Pretoria RFC team of 1905
South Africa
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South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa, is the southernmost country in Africa. The country consists of nine provinces, and is bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres of coastline that
Rugby union in South Africa
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Front of Maropeng at the Cradle of Humankind
Mapungubwe Hill, the site of the former capital of the Kingdom of Mapungubwe
Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias planting the cross at Cape Point after being the first to successfully round the Cape of Good Hope
Charles Davidson Bell's 19th-century painting of Jan van Riebeeck, who founded the first European settlement in South Africa, arriving in Table Bay in 1652