GAME TIME!

Over 43 000 tickets to the long-awaited Castle Lager Rugby Championship match at Mbombela Stadium on Saturday have been sold. The match, originally scheduled for 2020, will kick off at 17:05. South Africa have not beaten the All Blacks in South Africa since October 4, 2014, when they won 27-25 at Emirates Airline Park. Willie le Roux, Handré Pollard, Eben Etzebeth and Trevor Nyakane, who are in Saturday’s match 23, played in that game. Mark Kinnear reports on pages 2 to 4. Left to right: Kurt-Lee Arendse > Photo: ©Shaun Roy/BackpagePix. Siya Kolisi and Bongi Mbonambi > Photo: EPA/Nic Bothma. Malcolm Marx. > Photo: Chris Fairweather/Huw Evans/Shutterstock/BackpagePix (12591897be). Lood de Jager > Photo: ©Shaun Roy/BackpagePix