The 56-strong selection will meet in Cape Town for a three-day camp ahead of a Test season that begins with the July visits to South Africa from Italy and Georgia.
Springboks great Albert van den Berg says he would love to put one over on his former coach Jake White.
White’s team have twice fallen at the last hurdle in the first three years of the competition, losing finals to the DHL Stormers and Glasgow Warriors.
Warriors will be rank outsiders in Pretoria but there are parallels with their title-winning vintage of 2015.
Seven South Africa internationals have made the United Rugby Championship team of the season, but only two players from the triumphant World Cup-winning squad at the beginning of the season.