Springboks coach Jacques Nienaber has made wholesale changes to his match-day squad for the opening Rugby Championship match against Argentina at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Gqeberha on Saturday.
Kwagga Smith replaces Franco Mostert at blindside flank in a loose trio with Kolisi and Wiese.
The other changes in the backline see Damian Willemse replace Willie le Roux at fullback‚ while Sbu Nkosi and Aphelele Fassi‚ who made his Springbok debut against Georgia last month‚ will start at wing in place of Cheslin Kolbe and Makazole Mapimpi respectively. “Over the past few months‚ they have played seven Test matches and they have only lost one. The changes are as much about player welfare as anything else and we have strategic goals that we want to achieve. Our first goal is to win and the second is to create depth in the squad‚ and [it is] no disrespect to Argentina.