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Wallabies playmaker Quade Cooper will make his return to the Test arena in Pretoria opposite Springboks novice Manie Libbok, who is expecting a baptism by fire.

Veteran prop James Slipper will start in the Wallabies' Rugby Championship opener against South Africa in Pretoria with four possible debutants named.

Prop Allan Alaalatoa says he's fully recovered from a calf injury and ready to face South Africa in Pretoria, adding valuable experience to the Wallabies pack.

The Wallabies have flown out to South Africa for their first Test and game of the year under master coach Eddie Jones, with history at stake in Pretoria.

Playmaker Carter Gordon isn't shying away from the prospect of making his debut when the Wallabies travel to South Africa to start the Rugby Championship.

South Africa has experienced outbreaks of cholera since January. The worst was in May in Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria, where nearly 30 people died. Cholera is a bacterial disease which spreads via the faecal-oral route mostly through ingestion of contaminated food and water. It causes severe diarrhoea and dehydration, and…

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will lead a delegation of African leaders on a peace mission to Ukraine and Russia this week amid attempts to assuage Western concerns that South Africa is siding with Russia in the conflict despite its proclaimed neutrality – which has Ramaphosa doing a round of…

South Africa’s stance of neutrality in the Russia-Ukraine war has been at variance with its Moscow ties. Why is that so?

At least 17 people have died in a cholera outbreak in the Hammanskraal township outside South Africa's capital of Pretoria

Six African leaders plan to travel to Russia and Ukraine "as soon as is possible" to help find a resolution to the war, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has said.

(This May 14 story has been refiled to clarify comments were made at a press briefing, not in a statement, in paragraph 5)