The Twickenham date on the 22nd of June will be a double header with the touring Barbarians side also featuring at the London venue against Fiji later in the day.
This will be second time Wales and South Africa go head-to-head against each other at one of the world’s most famous venues. The Boks edged it 23-19 the last time both teams met at the 82,000-capacity stadium in the 2015 World Cup Quarter-Final.
It is not the first time this season a South African side has faced a Welsh side in London, after the Ospreys faced the Hollywood Bets Sharks in November at the Twickenham Stoop in the United Rugby Championship.
The Welsh region triumphed 19-5 on that day and Wales will hope a similar result can be replicated to kick-start their summer programme in style before flying down under to Melbourne to face the new look Wallabies under Kiwi Joe Schmidt.
The date itself and venue, however, are both controversial, whilst innovative talking points with the…
