{"id":50301,"date":"2026-11-08T12:09:54","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T10:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=50301"},"modified":"2026-11-08T12:09:54","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T10:09:54","slug":"springboks-defeat-italy-66-7-in-a-nations-championship-encounter","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/springboks-defeat-italy-66-7-in-a-nations-championship-encounter\/","title":{"rendered":"Springboks defeat Italy 66-7 in a Nations Championship encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Springboks taught Italy a rugby lesson, beating them 66-7 in a Nations Championship encounter in Turin on Saturday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>South Africa won the game in the first half, scoring six tries and leading 45-0 at the break, Italy showed better resistance in the second half and managed to score a try as a small consolation prize.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Springboks were also not as clinical in the second half but still crossed the try line three more times to record a convincing victory.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Fly-half Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu scored 26 points, which included a try, nine conversions and a penalty.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15597,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-50301","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Fly-half Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu scored 26 points, which included a try, nine conversions and a penalty.","published_date":"","news_description":"Fly-half Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu scored 26 points, which included a try, nine conversions and a penalty.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50301","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50303,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50301\/revisions\/50303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=50301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}