1912 — Dave Nourse top-scores with 64 against Australia in Nottingham as SA avoid defeat for the first time in the triangular series also featuring England. SA made 329 and then bowled out their opponents for 219, but they never got the opportunity to try press home the advance with no play possible on the final third day.
1961 — The Springboks run in eight tries as they demolish Australia 28-3 in the first Test at Ellis Park. Winger Hennie van Zyl dotted down three times while a batch of legends also scored — wing Jannie Engelbrecht, centre John Gainsford, eighthman Dough Hopwood, flyhalf Keith Oxlee and flank Martin Pelser also dotted down.
1997 — Marius Corbett stuns the javelin field at the world championships in Athens, winning the competition with a throw of 88.40m, less than two metres ahead of Briton Steve Backley (86.80). The unheralded South African hit the mark on his second attempt, but he would have also won the competition with the 87.40 he managed in the third round.
2006 — A single conversion proves the difference as the Springboks go down to Australia 18-20 in a Tri-Nations encounter in Sydney. Both sides scored two tries, with centre Jaque Fourie and fullback Percy Montgomery going over for SA. But Wallaby centre Stirling Mortlock converted both of his team’s five-pointers, including the 75th minute touchdown by Mat Rogers, which went over off the post.
2006 — Silence Mabuza, stopped in the fourth round by Rafael Marquez the previous year, quits in the ninth round of his rematch against the Mexican IBF bantamweight champion at Lake Tahoe.
2017 — Luvo Manyonga and Ruswahl Samaai make the podium at the world championships in London. Manyonga leapt to 8.48m on his second attempt to beat American Jarion Lawson into second place by four centimetres. Samaai went 8.32 on his last jump to secure the bronze medal from Russian Aleksandr Menkov.
2018 — Reeza Hendricks scores 102 from 89 balls to steer the Proteas to a 78-run victory over Sri Lanka in Kandy, taking an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match series. The visitors scored 363/7 and then bowled out the hosts for 285, Lungi Ngidi taking 4/57 and Andile Phehlukwayo 3/74.
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