The South Africa 7s team will be without their most experienced player for the rest of the season after Chris Dry was ruled out due to a knee injury.
Dry who played in his 63rd tournament last weekend, suffered major ligament damage in South Africa’s quarter‑final victory over Fiji at the Cape Town Sevens tournament.
Springbok Sevens team doctor, Leigh Gordon said Dry will be out for at least six months.
He will undergo surgery on Friday.
She also confirmed that Siviwe Soyizwapi, who replaced Dry for the last two matches of the tournament, suffered a knee injury.
A number of Blitzboks picked up knocks in Cape Town but, according to Gordon, none of the injuries were too serious.
Dylan Sage, who missed the first two tournaments of the 2017/18 World Rugby Sevens Series because of a back injury, will join the squad in full training in January.
The next tournament in the series is the Sydney Sevens to be played from 26‑28 January.
