South Africa’s Sport and Recreation Minister Thulas Nxesi said on Wednesday that his nation have constructed a strong bid to stage the 2023 Rugby World Cup in the Rainbow Nation.
"There's a lot of technical work that is continuing. There are still going to be presentations to the International Rugby Union on the 25th of September in Ireland," he told AllAfrica.com
"There will still be stages where [we] have to go and present, that's why we have put [together] a very solid bid. We have said that our bid is an economic bid. It must be well researched with information from us as government [and] from the side of SARU.
The Minister explained that technical level processes are underway by South Africa, who last hosted the showpiece event in 1995, prior to the announcement of which country will host the World Cup is made on 15 November.
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