Since the first Rugby World Cup (RWC) in 1987 where Australia co-hosted with New Zealand, only four African nations namely South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Ivory Coast have qualified to compete for the Webb Ellis Cup.
Nine World Cups have been held in the period with the latest last year in Japan where South Africa won it for the third time.
It still remains a mystery when Africa will have a new face or more slots, like in the Sevens (7s) where Uganda, Kenya, Zimbabwe and South Africa all played at the 2018 World Cup in San Francisco.
As South Africa continues to qualify, courtesy of making the quarterfinals of the previous events, Namibia makes the grade as Africa Cup champions on eight occasions, each coming in a (RWC) qualifying year.
South Africa have already qualified while Namibia will have to repeat their old trick of winning the 2022 Rugby Africa Cup, according to the 2023 qualification road map released by World Rugby (WR) on Monday.
