He may have played in 92 Tests since his debut, but Tendai Mtawarira remains thrilled with the current Springbok environment.

Tendai Mtawarira has been dropped from the Springboks’ northern hemisphere tour due to his heart condition, and will return to South Africa.

A lot of hard work lies ahead of the South African rugby team before they will reach their peak, Springbok Tendai "Beast" Mtawarira says.

The nature of Test rugby is that it tends to run in four-year cycles, centred on the mammoth spectacle of the World Cup. The Springboks face the next three-and-a-half years as…