The Springbok Sevens team's failure to win the HSBC SVNS Cape Town continued on Sunday morning, when they lost 28-0 to Australia in the third quarter-final.
The Blitzboks lost 14-12 to Ireland in their final match on day one of the Cape Town SVNS but still made it safely through to the quarter-finals after earlier victories over Great Britain and USA.
Springbok Sevens head coach Sandile Ngcobo named Tiaan Pretorius as the only new player in his squad for this weekend's HSBC SVNS Cape Town tournament.
When the Springbok Sevens team won the Dubai Sevens last Sunday, many of the Blitzboks found themselves overwhelmed by emotion for different reasons.
The Blitzboks and Springbok Women's Sevens will kick off their HSBC SVNS Cape Town campaigns with two tricky matches before 11h00 on Saturday morning at the DHL Stadium.
Blitzbok Masande Mtshali is finally on the scoreboard following a successful weekend in Dubai for the Springbok Sevens squad.