Rugby: Race quotas return to South Africa

Race quotas will return to South African rugby next season in a bid to produce more top-level black players. Photo / Getty Images.

Race quotas will return to South African rugby next season in a bid to produce more top-level black players.

A South African Rugby Union statement says seven players in each 22-man Vodacom Cup squad must be black, including at least two forwards.

And at least five of the black players must be in the starting line-up with the others on the bench.

The Vodacom Cup is a national second-tier provincial competition played at the same time as Super Rugby.

The Springboks side named this moirning to play Argentina contains three black players - wingers Bjorn Basson and Bryan Habana and Zimbabwe-born prop Tendai Mtawarira.

A further two - loosehead prop Gurthro Steenkamp and flank Siya Kolisi - are among the eight replacements for the Rugby Championship match in Soweto on Sunday morning.