OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 1.00pm.
NAMIBIA has named a 30-man squad for its debut at the Rugby World Cup in England in October. Sybrand de Beer is the only new addition to the team announced in August.
Former Springbok technical advisor, Rudy Joubert, has been named coach. Namibia is in Pool ‘C’ with Fiji, France and Canada.
The full squad is as follows: Backs: Lean van Dyk, Deon Mouton, Glovin van Wyk, Dirk Farmer, Athur Samuelson, Rudie Jansen van Vuuren, Lukas Holtzhausen, Cliff Loubsher, Francois van Rensburg, Johan Zaayman, Ronaldo Pedro, Riaan Jantjies and Sarel Janse vanRensburg. Forwards: Sybrand de Beer, Mathys van Rooyen, Jaco Olivier, Schalk van der Merwe, Quinn Hough (captain), Sean Furter, Herman Lintvelt, Heino Senekal, Eben Izaacs, Pieter Steyn, Johannes Theron, Gerhard Opperman, Mario Jacobs, Eben Smith, Andries Blaauw, Hugo Horn and Frans Fisch.