{"id":209087,"date":"2025-10-06T19:30:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T17:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-erasmus-proud-of-boks-title-triumph-as-rugby-championship-faces-uncertain-future\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T19:30:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T17:30:52","slug":"namibia-erasmus-proud-of-boks-title-triumph-as-rugby-championship-faces-uncertain-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-erasmus-proud-of-boks-title-triumph-as-rugby-championship-faces-uncertain-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Erasmus Proud of Boks&#8217; Title Triumph As Rugby Championship Faces Uncertain Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\"><em>South Africa coach Rassie Erasmus said it meant a &#8220;hell of a lot&#8221; for the Springboks to have won back-to-back Rugby Championship titles for the first time following a hard-fought victory over Argentina at Twickenham<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Saturday&#8217;s 29-27 success, built on a dominant scrum with hooker Malcolm Marx scoring two tries, in the final match of the southern hemisphere tournament gave South Africa the title on points difference from arch-rivals New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The Springboks had previously inflicted a record 43-10&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510060616.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa coach Rassie Erasmus said it meant a &#8220;hell of a lot&#8221; for the Springboks to have won back-to-back Rugby Championship titles for the first time following a hard-fought victory over Argentina at Twickenham Saturday&#8217;s 29-27 success, built on a dominant scrum with hooker Malcolm Marx scoring two tries, in the final match of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":209088,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,52498,6843,44353,5080,5760,4706,724,257,10806,8495,254,6675,12739,14765],"class_list":["post-209087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boks","tag-championship","tag-erasmus","tag-faces","tag-future","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-proud","tag-rugby","tag-south-africa-today","tag-title","tag-triumph","tag-uncertain"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}