South Africa has named a squad of 24 players to take part in a tournament organised by the Confederation of African Rugby in conjunction with the International Rugby Board, to start next week in Windhoek.
The tournament will enable a country, other than South Africa, to qualify as the African team at the IRB’s Under-18 championship in Dubai next year. As defending champions South Africa does not need to qualify.
South Africa will take part in the Windhoek tournament along with Namibia, Tunisia, Morocco, Côte d’Ivoire, Uganda, Kenya, Madagascar and Zimbabwe. The tournament runs from 24 August to 3 September 2005.
The South African team is chosen for those who took part in the Academy Week in Upington - i.e. from provincial B teams - in July at which a quota system of 11:11 applied and each team was required to have eight “players of colour” on the field at all times.
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