Pumas captain cleared
The Pumas, looking to bounce back from last week's loss against the Lions, will travel to Port Elizabeth on Friday to tackle the winless Eastern Province Kings.
Watermeyer suffered a thigh strain in the trip to Ellis Park last week, but is fit for Friday's encounter.
Marius Coetzer also suffered a thigh strain, but was named in the second row alongside Rudi Mathee – who has recovered from the shoulder injury that sidelined him last week.
It means lock Lubabalo Mtyanda drops from the starting XV to the replacement bench and Jason-Collin Fraser drops out of the matchday 22.
In the back row Jason-Colin Fraser earns a starting berth at No.8 in place of Lambert Groenewald.
There are a couple of changes in the front row a well.
Corné Fourie gets his first start of the Currie Cup season at loosehead prop, after playing off the bench, with Khwezi Mona moving to the tighthead side of the scrum and De-Jay Terblanche dropping down to the bench.
Pumas: 15 John-Wessel Bell, 14 Bernado Botha, 13 Jerome Pretorius, 12 Stefan Watermeyer (captain), 11 Rosco Spekman, 10 Juan-Claude Roos, 9 Francois de Klerk, 8 Jason-Colin Fraser, 7 Uzair Cassiem, 6 Marnus Schoeman, 5 Marius Coetzer, 4 Rudi Mathee, 3 Khwezi Mona, 2 Frank Herne, 1 Corné Fourie.
Replacements: 16 Francois du Toit, 17 De-Jay Terblanche, 18 Lubabalo Mtyanda, 19 Jaco Bouwer, 20 Reynier van Rooyen, 21 Justin van Staden, 22 Hoffmann Maritz.
Date: Friday, August 21
Venue: Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, Port Elizabeth
Kick-off: 19.00 (17.00 GMT)
Referee: Rasta Rasivhenge
Assistant referees: Jaftha, Jason Meiring Ruhan
