{"id":13122,"date":"2025-10-21T07:39:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T05:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/porthen-earns-first-bok-call-up-for-end-of-year-tour\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:12","slug":"porthen-earns-first-bok-call-up-for-end-of-year-tour","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/porthen-earns-first-bok-call-up-for-end-of-year-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Porthen earns first Bok call-up for end-of-year tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Former Junior Springbok prop and captain, Zachary Porthen, has earned his first Springbok call-up. He has been included in coach Rassie Erasmus\u2019 36-man squad for the end-of-year tour to the Northern Hemisphere.<\/div>\n<div id=\"m_8593028628254023605x_x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Potham made his United Rugby Championship debut for the Stormers in May this year and is the only uncapped player in the touring squad.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Three players will also return to the Bok set-up for the first time this season.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They are flanker Ben-Jason Dixon, \u00a0hooker Johan Grobbelaar and prop Gerhard Steenekamp. Two-time World Cup-winning hooker, Bongo Mbonambi, is one of 10 players named on a standby list.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The reigning World Cup champions will face Japan at Wembley Stadium in London on November 1 in the first of their five test matches.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13062,"template":"default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-13122","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The reigning World Cup champions will face Japan at Wembley Stadium in London on November 1 in the first of their five test matches.||The reigning World Cup champions will face Japan at Wembley Stadium in London on November 1 in the first of their five test matches.","published_date":null,"news_description":"The reigning World Cup champions will face Japan at Wembley Stadium in London on November 1 in the first of their five test matches.||The reigning World Cup champions will face Japan at Wembley Stadium in London on November 1 in the first of their five test matches.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18392,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13122\/revisions\/18392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}