South Africa 7s make three changes
Scrum.com
January 14, 2008

Springbok Sevens coach, Paul Treu, has made three changes to his squad for the IRB World Sevens Series tournaments in New Zealand and the USA.

The Bok Sevens squad leaves tonight from Johannesburg for Darwin in Australia en route to Wellington, where the third leg of the IRB Sevens Series will be contested on 1 & 2 February.

The USA will host the fourth tournament in the current Series a week later.

Former captain Jonathan Mokuena, Thobela Mdaka and newcomer Juan de Jongh are all included in the squad of 14 players.

Mokuena was suspended until January 12 after an incident in Dubai but is now available again, while Mdaka has recovered from his injury.

The two stars replace Kabamba Floors and Danwel Demas respectively, while 19-year old De Jongh was called up in place of Baldwin McBean. Floors (Vodacom Cheetahs) and Demas (Vodacom Bulls) were ruled out because they are training with their Vodacom Super 14 teams.

In Darwin the South Africans will play as the ULR Samurai International Team and Treu will most likely give the new additions a decent run-out.

South Africa is currently third on the log after two tournaments in the series, having reached the last four in both Dubai and George last month. New Zealand is the current log-leader virtue of two Series-wins, followed by Fiji.

The Springbok Sevens squad to Wellington and San Diego:

Mpho Mbiyozo, Juan de Jongh, Frankie Horn, Vuyo Zangqa, Neil Powell (captain), Schalk van der Merwe, Renfred Dazel, Jonathan Mokuena, Marius Schoeman, Fabien Juries, Thobela Mdaka, MJ Mentz.

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