ru_nationalteam ru_province children university birth_place weight ru_nationalcaps height article_title school birth_date ru_nationalpoints ru_provinceyears ru_position name ru_nationalyears nicknames
south africa cats bulls worcester megan , mikah , kian , and kai university of pretoria bloemfontein , south africa 168 lb stlb on 20 5 ' 8 '' werner swanepoel
 grey college 15 april 1973 -lrb- 30 -rrb- 1997 & ndash ; 2001 2002 2002 & ndash ; 2004 scrum-half werner swanepoel 1997 & ndash ; 2000 smiley
werner swanepoel

werner swanepoel is a former south african rugby union player .
he played as a scrum half for the springboks from 1997 to 2000 .
his appearances for the springboks were curtailed by virtue of his career coinciding with that of joost van der westhuizen .
viral meningitis ended his playing career while he was at worcester .
