Renaldo Bothma will play for the Toyota Verblitz in Japan's Top League.

Bothma is set to join the club after the World Cup, where he will represent Namibia, before returning to Durban to play in the 2016 Vodacom Super Rugby tournament.

He will join a host of South Africans in Japan, including Handré Pollard, Willie le Roux, Eben Etzebeth, Schalk Burger, Marcell Coetzee, Heinrich Brüssow, Johann Sadie, Pierre Spies, JJ Engelbrecht and Andries Ferreira.

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