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South Africa’s Jasper Wiese in action as he is tackled by Scotland’s Ewan Ashman
Springbok Wing, Makazole Mapimpi scored a brace of tries as error-strewn South Africa defeated Scotland 32-15 in their Autumn international clash at Murrayfield on Saturday as their forward power helped them to a scrappy win.
The Springboks, who also scored tries through prop Thomas du Toit and number eight Jasper Wiese, made 11 changes for the match and looked disjointed, not helped by 21 handling errors that broke their momentum.
It is a ninth successive loss to South Africa for the Scots, but there will be aspects of their performance they will be pleased with, though they failed to take their chances in the visitors 22, with all their points coming from the boot of flyhalf Finn Russell.
South Africa next travel to Twickenham to play England on Saturday, while Scotland host Portugal on the same day for their third match having already beaten Fiji 57-17.
