“Article on Sport24”
Adnaan Mohamed
Sydney – Springbok coach, Peter de Villiers, says it’s not his fault if there are not enough black rugby players in the Springbok rugby team.
De Villiers was livid after a national coalition of black rugby clubs slammed him for a lack of transformation at Springbok level.
Asad Bhorat, secretary of the Transformation and Anti-Racism Rugby Committee (TARC) called De Villiers the “ultimate traitor”.
The Bok coach responded by saying that he is not shying away from his responsibility of transforming the Springbok team. He however believes the problem should be addressed at Super14 level.
“Transformation is definitely one of my responsibilities, but TARC should rather look elsewhere for the reasons for the lack of transformation in SA Rugby,” De Villiers said while in transit at Sydney International Airport.
Bhorat said the coach will be summoned to appear before TARC and Parliament’s standing committee on sports and recreation on his return from Australasia for failing to transform the team after proclaiming he would never pick fewer than 10 black players in his starting line-up.
De Villiers response was: “I can only pick black players who have proved themselves consistently at Super 14 level. There are many talented black players who are unfortunately not being given enough opportunities by their franchises. It makes my job very difficult when there are not enough black players coming through the system. How can I pick them if the South African Super 14 coaches are not interested in selecting them?”
The Springboks only had four players of colour in the starting XV during the Tri-Nations – Bryan Habana, JP Pietersen and Odwa Ndungane on the wings, and Zimbabwean-born Beast Mtawarira at prop.
Bhorat said in a statement that De Villiers had let his “ego be inflated by his winning streak” and had silently become “submissive” to SA Rugby by fielding an almost all-white team.
“The TARC and the sports portfolio committee have not criticised him up to now because we were giving him time and space. But no more. He will not be protected anymore,” Bhorat added.
De Villiers has fielded just three black players in his starting line-up and has only eight black players in his Tri-Nations squad.
“Sacrificing one’s principles is tormenting enough but betraying the trust of a nation hoping for change is another thing altogether.”
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It is this web site’s opinion that Peter De Villiers has done nothing wrong and that the criticism levelled against him by this faction is loathsome and unfair and we stand by him without reserve on this issue. How’s that for a strong Statement !
Bwahahaaa!
Inderdaad.
@Tripples –
@Stan –
Op Keo sou die thread geloop het oor n 1000 posts. Blog jy nooit meer daar nie of is jy permanent verban? hehe Hoe het jy op RT afgekom?
Hoop die Bulle wen nou al hulle games.
29@Stan –
ok, i think sab was referring to some of the guys on keo who made every little comment or thread into a political one, hence the word “sick”.
(i do not believe his “sick” applied to political activists in general!)
that is in fact one of the reasons most of us came here. i had added incentive in that i thought the articles on keo were poorly written and that the journalists had “hidden agendas”
now where is that blue bull supporter when you need him? 😀
@Stan What does inderdaad mean?-
30@Stan –
photos would be nice
anyway
the world’s ugliest person (mr plastic himself) died not so long ago, so no chance that anyone on here would be ashamed of how they look!
@Stan – 29
Political extremists and shit stirrers on both sides of the spectrum are intent on hijacking our sport to use as a vehicle to push their agendas. It does not require a MD or shrink to recognize that. RT is not intended for those types.
Now there is your answer. Once again, please scroll past my posts in future as I do not intend reacting to your stirring again.
@Ashley – 33
Well said
Indeed.
@Treehugger –
@sharky_forever –
Indeed the same person.
Hey, praat vir jouself jou fokken bergdwerg!
Both my Bullterries thinks i am stunning.
@Mawk Koehaane –
@Stan – thanks
My pleasure….
@Stan – lovely dogs bullterries, very good with small children cause of their high pain threshold
I see that Patrick Swayze has died at the age of 57.
Indeed.
I have two females and two jack Russels… never ever again a fucking Jack Russell.
Now that i had his nuts removed he is more subdued and less destructive but after a lot of damage….
@Treehugger –
44@Stan –
(sigh)
yep, now my wife is gonna watch “ghost” again and again a again and …..
😥
This is excellent and well worth passing along!
50 years of images in 3 minutes .. just awesome .. enjoy
This is absolutely brilliant!
If you know a little about world history……
This is excellent and well worth passing along!
50 years of images in 3 minutes .. just awesome .. enjoy
Someone went to a lot of trouble to put this video together.
It is well worth the time for a couple minutes of enjoyment.
It takes a few seconds or so to load but very entertaining.
This is great…. Turn up volume, sit back and enjoy a review of 50 years of history in less than 3 minutes!
Thanks to Billy Joel and someone from the University of Chicago with too much time on Google!
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http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~yeli23/Flash/Fire.html
And Dirty dancing and Roadhouse and……..
@Ashley –
poor pdv…..sorry…first..morning all. maybe someone should send this borak or whoever a list of questions…like 1) is there better locks in sa(pink, brown, blue, black) better than victor and bakkies?
2) is there a better sh than du preez,
3) a better captain
4) better fh
in fact are there better players of colour to take over those unfortunate wrongly (according to this palooka)coloured players or not wrongly coloured. if his answer is yes…i have no problem with it. and then their argument is legitimate.
@Stan – am an animal rights activist and the Jack Russel is the worst possible breed of dog, no redemeing qualities cept loyalty which most dogs have anyway, thou there owners swear by them mostly.
Helloooooooooooo friends, muppits, moepels, clowns
I have no problem with this Article, it is Rugby News related, it is carried on the News Networks.
Understand what we say when we say No Politics… we clearly aim at keeping Party Politics away from this blog, we clearly aim to get away from the Us vs You dillemma. This does not mean we have to stick our heads in the sand though.
Same with Racism… we want to get away from cross-attacking between groups or factions.
In our invoronment a liberal chap must feel equally welcome compared to a conservative fella and vise versa… What is ABSOLUTELY out is Name-calling and denigrating what someone else believe in.
Use the common-sense measure and approach people, we live in a Land of diversity, where opinion differ (and should rightly be allowed to differ).
Fender, I approved you not on any other grounds than your love for rugby, same with Stan and the rest of you.
All I ask is that we act like adults and that we act with tollerance and mutual respect!!
UNDERSTOOD ??????????
Mine thinks he is a parrot. Climbing on your shoulder and so on…
He hates me as i am the one who took him to the vet and he then retured the next day with his mother without his nuts. Long face since then…..
@Treehugger –
51@grootblousmile –
of course sir. yes, sir!!
Trehugger,
So you dont approve of using live dogs as sharkbait?
@Treehugger –
@Stan – there is a reason their name ends with “terrier”
@Ashley –
Die naam TARC is misleidend.
Die oorspronklik ‘Train Apartheid Resistance Committee’ in die Kaap het heel ander doelstellings gehad, en hulle noptrede het heelwat regsgevolge gehad om die destydse apartheid op trimne in die Skiereiland ongeldig te laat verklaar (verskeie Hooggeregshof-uitsprake daaromtrent gewees.
Ek het dit pas ge-google.
Hierdie TARC van Bhorat is n groep rugbyklubs blykbaar, en hulle het geen bestaansreg in die SA rugbyopset nie, hulle het ook geen regskrag om PdeV voor hulle te daag om te kom verduidelik nie.
Hulle het die ou TARC benaming ge-‘hijack’ lyk my…..
@Pietman –
‘…op treine in die Skiereiland…’, moet dit lees.
But the Bullies, wirehair and so on are much better to handle.
@Martin –
Hier was ‘n vraag oor ‘n Bloggers Photo Gallery….. ek het geen beswaar daarteen nie….. ek gaan ‘n Poll hier op die Kant Opsit sodat ons kan stem daaroor…. indien jy ten gunste daarvan stem moet jy bereid wees om ‘n foto in te stuur na webmaster@rugby-talk.com, om geplaas te kan word !
There was a question regarding a Bloggers Photo Gallary….. I have no objections against it…. I’m going to put a Poll up, on the right hand side, so we can vote for or against it…. if you vote for it you must also be prepared to send a photo to webmaster@rugby-talk.com, to be placed in the Gallary !
The S14 coaches must come to the party here, and assist PdeV.
That is why we need a Director of Rugby, to co-ordinate the finances and management of black player development from provincial to national level, somebody who can be the link between the national coach and the provincial coaches.
Just my idea,
I would like to hear from the like of Morne and TonyM, I know they are clued up on this……
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