{"id":689383,"date":"2026-07-13T14:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T14:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/689383\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T14:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T14:23:10","slug":"nations-championship-south-africa-ring-changes-for-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/689383\/","title":{"rendered":"Nations Championship: South Africa ring changes for Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World champions South Africa have made 10 changes to their starting side to face Wales in the Nations Championship on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Head coach Rassie Erasmus has included four uncapped players, with wing Jaco Williams, fly-half Vusi Moyo, lock Ruben van Heerden and prop Carlu Sadie all making their Test debuts in Durban.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Flanker Pieter-Steph du Toit will again captain the side in the absence of Siya Kolisi, while the bench is packed with quality such as Manie Libbok, Damian Willemse and Herschel Jantjies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eben Etzebeth, Franco Mostert, Andre Esterhuizen, Canan Moodie, Handre Pollard and Ox Nche are all unavailable because of injury. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Africa are looking to make it three wins from three in the new tournament&#8217;s first block of games, having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cvglz11w29xo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">beaten England 45-21<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cly807lylwzo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scotland 42-28.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Only skipper Du Toit, flanker Paul de Villiers and centre Jesse Kriel have started all three games for the Springboks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales began their campaign with an encouraging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c0my2xvzg3do\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">39-24 victory over Fiji,<\/a> but were overpowered by Argentina in Saturday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cj9gk8179jlo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">35-21 defeat.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The previous occasion the two sides met, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c30jd4vlr22o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wales suffered their heaviest-ever home defeat<\/a> in a 73-0 humiliation less than eight months ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World champions South Africa have made 10 changes to their starting side to face Wales in the Nations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-689383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}