Bongi Mbonambi (hooker) and Ntuthuko Mchunu (prop) will join the Springboks in Ireland on Sunday as national coach Rassie Erasmus and his coaching team prepare for their final two clashes of their end of year tour, against Ireland and Wales.

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Mbonambi, who was a member of the Rugby Championship squad, was one of the players named on Erasmus’s standby list for the tour, while Mchunu earned the last of his three Test caps against Portugal in Bloemfontein in the 2024 Incoming Series.

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‘Big matches lined up’

“This is a longer tour than usual,