Rugby writer
With preparations for his team’s opening match against the Barbarians in Gqeberha on June 20 starting to ramp up, Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus has named a 40-man squad for an alignment camp in Cape Town next week.
Apart from selecting a team to face the BaaBaas, Erasmus will also have to gather a South Africa A team to take on the Zimbabwe Sables in a game that will be played as a curtain-raiser to the Bok clash at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium.
With two teams having to be named to wear the green and gold in Gqeberha, Erasmus has spread his net far and wide in an effort to rope in South Africa’s best players.
Erasmus has named a purpose- and goal-driven squad, or the team’s second in-person alignment camp with former Hudson Park schoolboy Sibabalwe Mahashe and the highly rated Zekhethelo Siyaya invited to their first camp.
