# Rugby: Wing Makazole Mapimpi will miss the Springboks’ end of year tour after receiving a five-match ban for foul play during the Sharks’ United Rugby Championship match against Ulster in Durban. He was on coach Rassie Erasmus’ standby list for the Northern Hemisphere tour of five matches, starting against Japan in London next Saturday. The disciplinary committee originally banned Mapimpi for six weeks, but it was reduced to five after he acknowledged and accepted the punishment for a tip-tackle. This was his second red card this year.
Rugby: Mapimpi’s five-match ban rules him out of Boks’ November tour