There are staggering reports circulating around the Springboks squad after Elton Jantjies and team dietician Zeenat Simjee were sent home.
South Africa, who are currently preparing for their Rugby Championship fixture with Argentina in Buenos Aires, announced the news in a brief statement.
The country’s Sunday newspapers have suggested the pair are having an affair and that there has also been an incident involving them at a Mbombela hotel.
SA Rugby’s statement said that although no team protocols were breached at the hotel around the New Zealand game on August 6, the duo would travel home.
According to Rapport, Jantjies, who is married with children, did not stay in the team’s hotel and instead booked a guesthouse during that Mbombela week.
It is also alleged that the 32-year-old did not pay the full R26,000 bill until the owners launched a complaint to the South African Rugby Union (SARU).
“The Springbok management
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