{"id":72741,"date":"2025-08-16T12:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T12:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/72741\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T12:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T12:57:08","slug":"south-africa-vs-australia-live-latest-score-and-updates-as-springboks-take-on-wallabies-in-rugby-championship-gets-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/72741\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa vs Australia live: Latest score and updates as Springboks take on Wallabies in Rugby Championship gets underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"#post-2159428\" class=\"sc-1wyow5i-1 eRBxyC\"><\/a>South Africa vs Australia live<\/p>\n<p>The Rugby Championship kicks off with an intriguing meeting between South Africa and Australia at Johannesburg\u2019s Ellis Park. The Springboks are the defending champions and again strong contenders for the competition &#8211; but can a Wallabies side that grew throughout the British and Irish Lions series spring a shock?<\/p>\n<p>Kick off is at 4.10pm BST.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2167156101.jpg\"  loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"South Africa and Australia tussle in Johannesburg\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE\"\/>South Africa and Australia tussle in Johannesburg (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Harry Latham-Coyle15 August 2025 13:43<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Africa vs Australia live The Rugby Championship kicks off with an intriguing meeting between South Africa and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-72741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}