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22nd October 2015
03:55pm BST

Vermeulen sums up the Springboks' hard-hitting mentality.
The 29-year-old battled back from a bad neck injury, incurred in the summer, to make Heyneke Meyer's 31-man squad. South Africa's progress means he will not join up with his new club, Toulon, until mid November.
Springboks prop Tendai 'The Beast' Mtawarira was backed his pack-mate to, once again, deliver for his country.
"Duane is a machine," he declared. "That's what we all like to call him, Jean de Villiers even said it before the tournament started.
"We don't need to look anywhere else for inspiration, we've got guys within the team that really inspire us and Duane is definitely one of those figures who inspires all of us by the way he leads on the field.
"So we just have to follow behind and make sure we're right behind him when he's putting his body on the line."
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