[4] He also holds the record for second joint most appearances by any player in the history of ICC U-19 Cricket World Cups along with Greg Thompson of Ireland.
Netherlands managed to chase 196 on the final ball of the match but Namibia was able to qualify for the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
[12] He ended up scoring 142 runs off just 131 deliveries including 16 fours and 2 sixes with a strike rate of 108.39 and his knock propelled Namibia in its clinical chase of 235 to seal the deal.
[17] During his country's historic first World Cup appearance in 2003, he opened the batting alongside Jan-Berry Burger in five out of six group stage matches.
[19] He was left out of Namibian side for their final group stage match of 2003 World Cup against the Netherlands and he was replaced by Morné Karg who opened the batting for Namibia in the former's absence.
One of his memorable innings came against the touring New Zealanders which included the likes of Shane Bond, Daniel Vettori, Kyle Mills and Chris Martin in a friendly warm-up 50 over tour match on 28 July 2005, in Wanderers Cricket Ground, Windhoek where he smashed a 43 ball 50 and put up a crucial tenth wicket partnership of 66 which came off just around 6 overs with tailender Kola Burger to give Namibia a glimmer of hope in a mammoth run chase of 331 runs.
Swanepoel was well supported by Kola Burger with the latter scoring a quickfire unbeaten knock of 45 runs off just 18 deliveries but the hopes of Namibia waned soon after the dismissal of Swanepoel who was the last man to be dismissed in Namibian innings by James Franklin with Kola Burger being the last man stranding for Namibia.