{"id":77922,"date":"2025-08-18T17:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T17:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77922\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T17:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T17:25:09","slug":"mapimpi-called-up-as-boks-release-kolisi-arendse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77922\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapimpi called up as Boks release Kolisi, Arendse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kolisi and Arendse both suffered injuries in last weekend\u2019s 38-22 defeat against Australia and are expected to be sidelined for a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>While there is enough cover in the squad at loose forward, Erasmus opted to call up Mapimpi as backline cover. He will join his team-mates in Cape Town on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The double Rugby World Cup-winner currently boasts 47 Test matches and will undoubtedly boost the experience to the Bok backline.<\/p>\n<p>The match at the DHL Stadium kicks off at 17h10 on Saturday and will be broadcast live on SuperSport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kolisi and Arendse both suffered injuries in last weekend\u2019s 38-22 defeat against Australia and are expected to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-77922","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\/77922","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=77922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}