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The South African Sevens team is unbeaten on day one of the penultimate tournament of the International Rugby Board's Sevens World Championship series in London. The Boks beat France 19-12 in their opening pool match and thrashed Canada 43-0.

Captain Mzwandile Stick displayed great footwork and scored two tries for the Boks in the first half against France. The Boks led 14-0 going into the break. In the second half, Cecil Afrika capitalised on a disorganised France - scoring his 20th try of the series.

In the day's other match the Boks got off to a flying start against Canada, and led 17-0 at halftime. Ryno Benjamin scored a hat trick of tries while Afrika, MJ Mentz and Neil Powell also crossed the try line.

Defending world champions South Africa have not won a tournament in this series. They are in sixth place whereas Samoa leads the overall championship standings, three points ahead of eight time winners New Zealand. South Africa take on Fiji later this evening.