Centre Gordon D'Arcy, starting his first game of the tour, was on the end of the first in a series of late or high tackles as early as the third minute with a welcome-to-Port-Elizabeth effort from Frikkie Welsh.
Tabarez will need to pick his side up for Saturday's third-place play-off match in Port Elizabeth against the team which loses the second semi-final, between Spain and Germany on Wednesday.
The Chelsea striker, who broke his arm on 4 June, came on after the break to huge cheers from the far-from-capacity Port Elizabeth crowd, but he had limited chance to make an impact on the game.
Botha took 1-48 during his team's 61-run victory in the fourth one-day international at Port Elizabeth.
England finally beat minnows Namibia but it was a hard-earned victory in Port Elizabeth.
This rolling-hilled region 37 miles from the coast and a 90-minute drive from Port Elizabeth Airport is an increasingly popular safari destination.
Coastal city Port Elizabeth will host the Chiefs-Pirates fixture and the venues for the City games will be announced later this week with Cape Town, Durban and Pretoria favoured.
Last year South Africa beat Madagascar 1-0 in Durban in a World Cup warm-up and then narrowly edged the islanders in a penalty shootout in a Cosafa Castle Cup quarter-final tie played at Port Elizabeth.
The brand new Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth was at best two-thirds full for the opening Group B fixture, although the inevitable drone of the vuvuzelas provided sufficient atmosphere to enliven an intriguing first half dominated by South Korea.
"I thought some of the execution today was excellent, " said McGeechan, who insists he will not pick the Test XV until after Tuesday's final warm-up against Southern Kings in Port Elizabeth.
Dunga saw his men suffer a 2-1 quarter-final defeat at the hands of the Netherlands in Port Elizabeth.
It made no difference to the outcome of a tie already over, but the five-time world champions will face a stiffer test against the Dutch in Port Elizabeth on 2 July.
Mali led 2-0 through a diving header by Mahamadou Samassa and Seydou Keita's third goal of the tournament, but Ghana's Wakaso Mubarak missed the chance to net his fifth when he blazed a 58th-minute penalty over the bar in the pouring rain at Nelson Mandela Stadium in Port Elizabeth.
Giel Mans, a diamond-dealer suspected of luring investors with the promise of riches from profiting from diamond investments, pleaded with a Port Elizabeth Magistrate judge to release him on bail, telling the judge that a safe-deposit box in London contained diamonds worth millions of dollars that could be used to repay his investors.
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The Lions lost prop Euan Murray (ankle) and fly-half James Hook (head) inside the first 15 minutes at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth.
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