TheBreakdown
Full time10 August 1996
South Africa
18–29
New Zealand
Newlands Stadium, Cape Town, South Africa · Tri Nations 1996Head-to-head

New Zealand won by 11 points.

Scoring

  1. –CSouth Africa conversion · Joel Stransky2–0
  2. –PSouth Africa penalty · Joel Stransky5–0
  3. –PSouth Africa penalty · Joel Stransky8–0
  4. –TSouth Africa try · Japie Mulder13–0
  5. –TSouth Africa try · Os du Randt18–0
  6. –CNew Zealand conversion · Andrew Mehrtens18–2
  7. –CNew Zealand conversion · Andrew Mehrtens18–4
  8. –PNew Zealand penalty · Andrew Mehrtens18–7
  9. –PNew Zealand penalty · Andrew Mehrtens18–10
  10. –PNew Zealand penalty · Andrew Mehrtens18–13
  11. –PNew Zealand penalty · Andrew Mehrtens18–16
  12. –PNew Zealand penalty · Andrew Mehrtens18–19
  13. –TNew Zealand try · Glen Osborne18–24
  14. –TNew Zealand try · Craig Dowd18–29

Line-ups

South Africa

  1. 1Os du RandtProp
  2. 2John AllanHooker
  3. 3Marius HurterProp
  4. 4Steve AthertonSecond row
  5. 5Mark AndrewsSecond row
  6. 6Francois PienaarFlanker
  7. 7Ruben KrugerFlanker
  8. 8Gary TeichmannNumber 8
  9. 9Joost van der WesthuizenScrum-half
  10. 10Joel StranskyFly-half
  11. 11Justin SwartWing
  12. 12Hennie le RouxCentre
  13. 13Japie MulderCentre
  14. 14Pieter HendriksWing
  15. 15James SmallFull-back
  16. 16Vlok CilliersBench
  17. 17Danie van SchalkwykBench
  18. 19Hannes StrydomBench
  19. 20Dawie TheronBench
  20. 21Henry TrompBench

New Zealand

  1. 1Craig DowdProp
  2. 2Sean FitzpatrickHooker
  3. 3Olo BrownProp
  4. 4Robin BrookeSecond row
  5. 5Ian JonesSecond row
  6. 6Michael JonesFlanker
  7. 7Josh KronfeldFlanker
  8. 8Zinzan BrookeNumber 8
  9. 9Justin MarshallScrum-half
  10. 10Andrew MehrtensFly-half
  11. 11Glen OsborneWing
  12. 12Walter LittleCentre
  13. 13Frank BunceCentre
  14. 14Jeff WilsonWing
  15. 15Christian CullenFull-back
  16. 16Alama IeremiaBench
  17. 17Scott McLeodBench
  18. 18Jon PrestonBench
  19. 19Andrew BlowersBench
  20. 20Mark AllenBench
  21. 21Norm HewittBench

Match officials

Sample data
Referee
Sample Referee
Assistant referee
Sample Assistant 1
Assistant referee
Sample Assistant 2
TMO
Sample TMO

Sample data Match officials is placeholder content: TheBreakdown has no data source for it yet, so nothing here is real.

Context

All-time, South Africa 46–64 New Zealand, 4 drawn in 114 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

South Africa going in
New Zealand going in

Also on this day

Results to 27 September 2026. Scoring and line-ups come from World Rugby match summaries where available; older Tests may have neither.