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Full time30 November 1996
France
12–22
South Africa
Venue not recorded · Tour 1996Head-to-head

South Africa won by 10 points.

Scoring

  1. 3’PFrance penalty · Richard Dourthe3–0
  2. 5’TSouth Africa try · James Small3–5
  3. 17’PSouth Africa penalty · Henry Honiball3–8
  4. 26’PSouth Africa penalty · Henry Honiball3–11
  5. 30’TSouth Africa try · Andre Joubert3–16
  6. 34’PFrance penalty · Richard Dourthe6–16
  7. 40’PSouth Africa penalty · Henry Honiball6–19
  8. 57’PFrance penalty · Richard Dourthe9–19
  9. 68’PFrance penalty · Richard Dourthe12–19
  10. 70’PSouth Africa penalty · Henry Honiball12–22

Line-ups

France

  1. 1Christian CalifanoProp
  2. 2Marc de RougemontHooker
  3. 3Franck TournaireProp
  4. 4Hugues MiorinSecond row
  5. 5Fabien PelousSecond row
  6. 6Abdelatif BenazziFlanker
  7. 7Philippe BenettonFlanker
  8. 8T LabrousseNumber 8
  9. 9Philippe CarbonneauScrum-half
  10. 10L MazasFly-half
  11. 11David BertyWing
  12. 12Guillaume BouicCentre
  13. 13Stephane GlasCentre
  14. 14Richard DourtheWing
  15. 15Jean-Luc SadournyFull-back
  16. 16David VendittiBench
  17. 17Christophe LamaisonBench
  18. 19Richard CastelBench
  19. 21Marc Dal MasoBench

South Africa

  1. 1Dawie TheronProp
  2. 2James DaltonHooker
  3. 3Adrian GarveyProp
  4. 4Kobus WieseSecond row
  5. 5Mark AndrewsSecond row
  6. 6Ruben KrugerFlanker
  7. 7Andre VenterFlanker
  8. 8Gary TeichmannNumber 8
  9. 9Joost van der WesthuizenScrum-half
  10. 10Henry HoniballFly-half
  11. 11Jacques OlivierWing
  12. 12Hennie le RouxCentre
  13. 13Japie MulderCentre
  14. 14James SmallWing
  15. 15Andre JoubertFull-back
  16. 20Toks van der LindeBench
  17. 21Henry TrompBench

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Context

All-time, France 12–29 South Africa, 6 drawn in 47 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

France going in
South Africa 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.