Team members are following a gruelling training schedule as they prepare to compete in September.
The Olympic competitors do more than hone their skills; they fight their personal trials too.
It’s taken time but the coach has moulded the motley group of players into a team fans can take pride in.
Rio will be bittersweet for Irma Reyneke, who missed out on her own stab at Olympic glory.
Gareth Bale has called on the Welsh and their fans to "find their inner dragon", but can the team do what no other has done before?
Her intensive training in Potch notwithstanding, sceptics claim the athlete has an unfair advantage.
Coach Marc Wilmots’s team have been dismissed as gifted lightweights, serial underachievers. But this could be their time to prove the critics wrong.
Safa’s lower tiers are rife with corruption, former Bafana coach Clive Barker says.
And it doesn’t help that some refs haven’t been paid for years.
As kids, we’d risk itchy bums to watch our heroes in action. A generation later, a once-great club is on the up-and up again, writes Luke Alfred.
The outlook for the Springboks is depressing unless they start thinking differently about the game, writes Luke Alfred.