The best cities in South Africa were selected as the venues of the 1995 Rugby World Cup where the top sixteen rugby playing nations faced each other.
The games were conducted in the best stadiums of the country. The games were placed in the best stadiums of the country in the most advanced cities. This was for the first time that the Rugby World Cup was being held in a single country and the enthusiasm in South Africa reached its zenith.
The 1995 World Cup Rugby had, for the first time, all the venues within one country, South Africa. The governing body of South African Rugby had arranged the matches half in the coastal areas and half at the altitudes. The matches were played in ten stadiums and most of them were owned by the local rugby unions. Four of South Africa's largest stadiums were used for the matches from the semi final round onwards. Brakpan, Germiston, Pietermaritzburg and Witbank initially were chosen as the venues but later their matches were shifted to other locations to facilitate the press, spectators and security.
The main stadiums in which the games were played included the Ellis Park in Johannesburg , Kings Park Stadium in Durban , Boet Erasmus Stadium in Port Elizabeth and Basil Kenyon Stadium in East London. The other stadiums used were Loftus Versfeld of Pretoria, Newlands of Cape Town, Free State Stadium of Bloemfontein, Olympia Park of Rustenburg and Danie Craven Stadium of Stellenbosch.
