The Web Ellis trophy will be in Durban on Saturday as part of the Springbok rugby team’s four-day Trophy Tour.
The Boks arrived in South Africa earlier today to a massive welcome at the OR Tambo International airport in Johannesburg.
The tour will start in Pretoria, Johannesburg and Soweto – concluding at FNB Stadium – on Thursday, November 2, and move on to Cape Town (Friday November 3) and Durban (Saturday November 4) before concluding in the Eastern Cape (East London) on Sunday November 5.
The locations have been selected for population size in the first three instances and because of the Eastern Cape’s rugby significance in the fourth.
Satellite tours to Bloemfontein, Nelson Mandela Bay and other centres will be scheduled for 2024. Such tours following the 2019 victory had to be abandoned because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The route for each tour has been prepared in consultation with the respective local authorities and the South African Police Service.
The Durban tour is expected to start from the Garden Court hotel in Aurora Drive at 8.30am into Umhlanga Rocks Drive through to the N2, past the KwaMashu station, then into Umgeni Road, Riverside Road, M4 Ruth First highway, Stalwart Simelane Street, Anton Lambede Street, with a mayoral visit at the Durban City Hall before a drive through the beachfront promenade. The team will then go to Moses Mabhida Stadium for a private lunch with the Premier and a press conference with selected players.
