{"id":36421,"date":"2026-06-07T08:08:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T06:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=36421"},"modified":"2026-06-07T08:08:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T06:08:51","slug":"erasmus-names-51-man-sa-squad-for-training-camp","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/erasmus-names-51-man-sa-squad-for-training-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Erasmus names 51-man SA\u00a0squad for training camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s (SA) rugby coach Rassie Erasmus cast his net wide when he named a 51-player squad, featuring 21 uncapped players, for the team\u2019s first training camp of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Teams for the double-header featuring the matches between SA and the Barbarians, as well as SA \u2018A\u2019 versus Zimbabwe, in Gqeberha on June 21, will be selected from this group.<\/p>\n<p>With Bulls players unavailable for selection after reaching the United Rugby Championship final, Erasmus included a number of junior players in his squad.<\/p>\n<p>They include national under-20 players such as flyhalf Yaqeen Ahmed, prop Danie Kruger and centre Markus Muller.<\/p>\n<p>Stormers loose forward Paul de Villiers, prop Bathobele Hlekani and scrumhalf Imad Khan are among the other uncapped players. The squad will assemble in Johannesburg on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20557,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-36421","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Teams for the double-header featuring the matches between SA and the Barbarians","published_date":"","news_description":"Teams for the double-header featuring the matches between SA and the Barbarians","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36421","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\/36421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36422,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36421\/revisions\/36422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=36421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}