48,000 turned up to watch the match in the Stadium that had witnessed the emotional scenes between Captain Francois Pienaar and Nelson Mandela just months earlier.
Wales’s poor run in the Rugby World Cup had continued in 1995 and for the second successive tournament they had failed to get out of the pool stages, but this match gave them the opportunity to make a fresh start. However, the Champions were going to enjoy their party and put forty points on their visitors.
Mark Bennett secured a try for Wales and Neil Jenkins ensured that Wales’s side of the scoreboard ticked over with two penalties. However, it was the metronomic boot of Joel Stransky, who had crucially dropped the goal that won the Rugby World Cup in Ellis Park, that had the last say providing two conversions and three penalties as James Small, Japie Mulder, Kobus Wiese, Gary Teichmann and Francois Pienaar waded in with a deluge of tries.
To compound Welsh misery, replacement Garin Jenkins saw red and left the field.
