The Springboks will attempt to become the first ever team to retain their Rugby World Cup crown this year, when the 2011 showpiece kicks off in New Zealand on Friday 9 September. Arguably the most successful South African sports team ever, their efforts will be covered in minute detail by SuperSport and the SABC.
Although SuperSport is the official broadcaster of the World Cup, the SABC is getting a significant slice of the broadcasting pie, with coverage on all three channels - including 28 live matches and seven delayed ones, making it 35 games in total.
SuperSport themselves are carrying all 48 games live and in high definition and both broadcasters have more companion shows, build-ups, wraps and commentary than you could ever possibly find time to watch.
Both broadcasters have roped in huge teams of rugby experts to help them cover the massive event from every conceivable angle, meaning that if you're a rugby lover - or just a bored patriot - you can't possibly miss any of the action. Not even if you try.
All that remains is for the Boks themselves to deliver and bring the Webb Ellis trophy back home, a feat which is a lot easier said than done.
Being in New Zealand, World Cup matches will happen live in the morning, when many South Africans are at work, but both broadcasters have you covered with repeats of all games which extend deep into the dead of night.
So let's see who's covering what, with whom and when, starting with the host broadcaster SuperSport:
SuperSport Coverage
All 48 matches will be broadcast live and in HD, with expert commentary, to-the-point interviews, analyses, highlights and replays adding to the package.
Previews, live scoring, full match reports, video streaming, quotes and statistics will air on supersport.com, SuperSport Blitz, as well as the mobile Drifta service.
SuperSport's team in New Zealand, to be based in Auckland's picturesque harbour, will include Kobus Wiese, Matt Pearce, Bob Skinstad, Xola Ntshinga, Owen Nkumane and
Lady Rugga, Elma Smit.
Former All Black captain Taine Randell will also be a member of the official SuperSport team, and other leading former internationals will be drawn in for the daily magazine show, Kia Ora (a traditional Maori greeting).
SuperSport has drafted in a number of high-profile guests, both in New Zealand and South Africa. They include Justin Marshall, Ian Jones, Naas Botha, Joel Stransky, Breyton Paulse, John Mitchell, Pieter de Villiers (not Coach Snor - the former French prop), Frederic Michalak, Carlos Spencer, Tiaan Strauss and Kees Lensing.
SuperSport 1 and SuperSport HD1 will be 24-hour rugby channels during the World Cup. Select matches, including all Springbok fixtures, will be available on SuperSport 4 and kykNET with daily highlights on SuperSport 4 and DStv's Magic World.
Commentary will be available in English (all), Afrikaans (all) and Xhosa (select). The world commentary feed will also be available.
SuperSport will have a number of exclusive World Cup programmes on the go for the duration of the event:
SuperFan
SuperFan is a daily half-hour post-match interactive show using all new media elements.
Hosted by Derek Alberts and a Lady Rugga finalist, SuperFan targets new media consumers who may be at the office or at home and would like to go online.
Master Plan
To be anchored by former World Cup winner Joel Stransky, Master Plan is a weekly show for the die-hard fan that focuses on the technical side of the game, with discussions focused on tactics, strategy, game plans and analyses.
Guest lined up include some of the sharpest minds in the game, among them Heyneke Meyer, Allister Coetzee, Garth Wright, John Mitchell and a number of referees.
Kia Ora
This daily show will be broadcast from a waterfront studio in Auckland and in SA and will be hosted by either Matthew Pearce or Kobus Wiese.
Taine Randell, Bob Skinstad and Owen Nkumane will make regular appearances, as will other top former internationals from New Zealand, Australia and elsewhere.
Toks 'n Tjops
Former Springbok and raconteur Toks van der Linde will co-host Toks 'n Tjops on kykNet on match days (with Breyton Paulse and Lady Rugga finalist Janina Oberholzer), with repeats on Kia Ora.
Van der Linde will also share on-air duties with Afrikaans entertainers Theuns Jordaan, Robbie Wessels and Bok van Blerk, who will alternate appearances.
SABC Coverage
The SABC will broadcast 35 matches in total, 28 of which will be live and seven delayed. The main focus for the public service broadcaster will be to broadcast all of the Springbok games.
The SABC has put together a broadcast schedule of games and programming using SABC2 and Radio 2000 as the supporting media.
Their biggest aim is to attract the non-traditional audiences of rugby, fulfilling their mandate of nation-building.
SABC2 will be the official TV platform for the World Cup and SABC1 and SABC3 will be supporting channels, providing alternative rugby viewing with programmes such as documentaries and country and player profiles.
Radio 2000 will also be broadcasting all games live. Other public service radio stations will play a supporting role, delivering the games in the respective languages, whilst educating listeners on the ins and outs of the game.
For the tournament, the following experts have been secured:
Anchors
Eben Jansen
An accomplished journalist, Eben has covered three Soccer World Cups, three Rugby World Cups, four Cricket World Cups and covered the Olympics from 1996 in Atlanta until Beijing in 2008. He also hosted the inaugural A1GP and several seasons of the Formula 1 World Championships.
David O'Sullivan
David is a member of the SABC Sport team in which he has covered various major sporting events as an anchor. He also writes script and does voice overs for different SABC Sport productions and was a judge on the panel for the 2011 SA Sport Awards.
Tony Ndoro
Tony cut his teeth as a Rugby Anchor on Supersport in 2005. He presented the live show All out Rugby but also has experience in Athletics and other sporting codes.
Analysts
Chester Williams
The first black Springbok post-apartheid, Chester was a member of the Springbok's 1995 World Cup winning team and scored four tries in his World Cup debut match in the 1995 quarterfinal against Samoa at Ellis Park. He has coached the SA Sevens team and the Pumas in the Currie Cup.
Allister Coetzee
Allister was Jake White's assistant coach with the victorious Springbok team at the 2007 World Cup in France and has guided the Stormers and Western Province to finals in last year's Super 14 and Currie Cup, respectively.
Kaya Malotana
The first black African to play for the Springboks at the 1999 World Cup and was an assistant coach for the Springbok women's team at last year's World Cup. Malotana is currently assistant coach for the Lions Vodacom Cup team.
Elton Jantjies
Elton was a revelation in last year's Currie Cup and was selected for the Springboks' end-of-year Grand Slam tour, but did not feature in a Test. Jantjies is one of the rising stars of the game.
Hennie Le Roux
An uncompromising flyhalf and centre in his heyday, Le Roux was pivotal member of the 1995 Springbok World Cup winning team. He played for Transvaal, who are now the Golden Lions, and won the Currie Cup in 1993 and 1994 and ended his career having played 252 matches and scoring 92 tries.
John Plumtree
John is the head coach of the Sharks Super Rugby and Currie Cup teams and has led the Durban franchise to two Currie Cup titles in 2008 and last year. Plumtree was a member of the first Sharks team to win a Currie Cup in 1990 and also lifted the coveted trophy again in 1996 as a player. The New Zealand-born and bred Plumtree also represented the SA Sevens team in 1994.
Os du Randt
Two-time World Cup winner and former Springbok scrum coach, Os du Randt is a legend of the game and the only South African player along with Australia's John Eales and Tim Horan to have won the World Cup twice.
John Mitchell
Former All Black coach at the 1999 World Cup and a former All Black player. Has coached in New Zealand, Australia and is now Lions Super rugby and Currie Cup coach.
Lawrence Sephaka
Has been capped 24 times for his country and was a member of the 2003 Springbok World Cup squad, where he played three matches. Sephaka played for the Lions in South Africa and has also plied his trade in France for Toulon.
Zola Yeye
A speedy wing in his heyday, Zola played for the famous Spring Rose rugby club in Port Elizabeth and represented the South African Rugby Union and Kwazakhele Rugby Union. Yeye was the Springboks' team manager at the 2007 Rugby World Cup.
Tim Dlulane
Played one Test for the Springboks during the 2004 end-of-year tour but his career got cut short by a neck injury sustained in a Currie Cup match against the Lions. Dlulane played Super 14 and Currie Cup rugby for the Bulls and Pumas.
Pieter Hendriks
Pieter was a member of the squad to lift the RWC trophy in 1995 and is remembered by fans as the player who smoked David Campese on the wing to score a memorable try in the 1995 Rugby World Cup against Australia.
Referee
Andre Watson
Now the head of referees in South Africa, Andre Watson is the only man to referee in two successive World Cup finals, in 1999 and 2003. In addition Watson has refereed five Super 12 finals and six Currie Cup finals.
Journalists
Dan Retief
With a career spanning over 40 years, Dan has covered many tours including the four World Cups the Springboks have participated in. He is also an author, having written former Springbok captain Wynand Claasen's autobiography and recently a book called the Springboks and the Holy Grail. He is the editor of the Springbok Opus.
Simnikiwe Xabanisa
A journalist who has covered numerous Springbok tours including the past two World Cups in 2003 and 2007 for the Sunday Times, Xabanisa has contributed to several rugby books including the SA Rugby Annual.
Vata Ngobeni (NZ - Radio)
With a decade of experience in newspaper journalism, Ngobeni was part of SABC Sport panel of television analysts during the 2007 World Cup and will be in New Zealand covering this year's World Cup for SABC Sport radio.
Zeena Isaacs (NZ - Television)
Isaacs was part of the SABC Sport crew that covered the 2007 Rugby World Cup and will again be the face of rugby for the SABC at this year's World Cup.
TV Schedules
SuperSport have not yet made their viewing schedules available, but you will be able to find them online and in the DStv Dish magazine closer to the time.
The SABC has released their comprehensive viewing schedules, which are so comprehensive we can't reprint them - you'll have to download them in PDF format, which you can either save for future reference or print out.
SABC Schedules
So there you have it - whether you're a rugby fan or not, you're not going to be able to avoid it unless you switch off your telly for a month.
Let's hope the Bokke can do Mzansi proud.