View from South Africa: ‘This was humiliation, a huge wound to pride’

• Springboks’ Rugby World Cup defeat by Japan leaves country in shock• Leading newspaper suggests Heyneke Meyer will pay with his jobAnger. Humiliation. Disbelief. More anger. These are the primary reactions in South Africa to being on the wrong end of the greatest giantkilling act in rugby World Cup history, a clear case of the bigger they are, the harder they fall.Saturday’s stunning defeat by 1,000-1 outsiders Japan came after allegations of racial discrimination in team selection, and did little to lift general gloom in a nation beset by a faltering economy and high unemployment. Continue …