Ruan Nortje is backing Salmaan Moerat to shine when they pack down alongside each other in the Springboks’ second-row against Italy in Turin on Saturday.
The Boks are set to face Italy, France and Ireland in the northern hemisphere leg of their Nations Championship campaign.
Nortje has cemented himself in South Africa‘s first-choice run-on side in recent years and was one of the Springboks’ starting locks – with Eben Etzebeth – in all four of their Tests during Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry series against the All Blacks earlier this year.
However, Etzebeth is currently sidelined due to a leg injury and has
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