The South African Rugby Union’s “watershed” Transformation Indaba concluded on Wednesday with delegates signing a Declaration confirming rugby’s commitment to promote and develop the game among all South Africans.
•Sports Minister congratulates SARU for leading way
•Provincial delegates confirm commitment to transformation
•SARU Transformation Implementation Plan to be issued
•Rugby to measure progress in six areas
The Declaration concluded a two-day workshop which began with the Hon. Fikile Mbalula, the Minister for Sports and Recreation, congratulating SARU on becoming the first national federation to hold such an event in the wake of the National Sports Indaba in November 2011.
SARU’s Indaba workshopped a Transformation Implementation Plan which will be used to measure the sport’s progress once the plan been finalised.
“This is a watershed moment for our sport,” said Mr Oregan Hoskins, the president of SARU. “Our sport has transformed significantly in terms of players, spectators, referees, coaches and administrators since rugby unity in 1992.
“We have had Visions and Charters in the past, with good intentions, and progress has been made. But what distinguishes this one is the commitment to properly measure ourselves on our progress.
“As the sports minister said, transformation is not about the ‘vulgar’ simplification of numbers in the Springbok team – it is about a whole range of opportunities being created in a number of different areas to continue to transform rugby at all levels and in all corners of our activity.”
The Declaration was signed by Mr Hoskins and representatives of each of the 14 member unions of SARU confirming that SARU would: “Adopt deliberate transformation initiatives in order to ensure equal opportunities exist for all South Africans.”
Jurie Roux, CEO of SARU, said that the Indaba and Declaration were part of an extensive strategy to finalise the Transformation Implementation Plan.
“We have had a group working on this process for several months,” he said. “In April we presented the outline to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Sport and since then we have workshopped the draft Plan with provinces on an individual basis.
“This Indaba is the culmination of that process and from this we will finalise the Implementation Plan.”
Roux said the final document would be published and used to measure rugby’s progress in six areas of access; skill and capability development; demographics; performance; alignment to national policy and governance.
The Transformation Declaration, signed by delegates, said:
“We, the undersigned, declare that the members of the South African Rugby Union will adopt deliberate transformation initiatives in order to ensure that equal opportunities exist for all South Africans to participate and excel in our sport. “Transformation is the process of holistically changing the delivery of sport through our actions to ensure increased access and opportunities in rugby for all South Africans.
“At the heart of our strategy will be the Strategic Transformation Plan, the purpose of which will be to establish a competitive and demographically representative rugby system guided by the values of equal opportunity, fairness and just behaviour, equitable resource distribution, empowerment, and affirmation.
“The Strategic Transformation Plan will:
•Increase the number of black people involved at all levels of the game
•Ensure rugby is accessible to all who wish to participate
•Improve skills and performance in identified coaches, referees, administrators and players
•Ensure equitable representation of black people at all levels of SARU
•Ensure goods and services are preferentially procured
•Focus on quality and merit to deliver world-class performances on the field of play
•Take effective actions to increase the number of new players and spectators
“The SARU constitution places the responsibility on administrators to adopt and enact “measures that will foster, promote, regulate and encourage the playing of rugby and provide facilities for rugby in South Africa for all persons, irrespective of race, colour, creed or gender, and to eliminate any discrimination and inequality amongst players and officials”.
“The Strategic Transformation Plan will be the embodiment of that constitutional duty and by placing my signature here I reaffirm my union’s commitment to its principles and our determination to realise them.”
Of course, by next year, the SARU Transformation Indaba will be seen as just the precursor to the Annual transformation charter conference, which will be the pre-cursir to the 7 day transformation lekgotla to be held over 4 days in 2014 to launch the idea of the New Southern Azanian constitution 2014 – a set of rules outlining the principles, functions, and organizational structures for fully integrated implimintation of a new policy document, which will be reviewed the following year, where-upon a new transformation plan will be signed to cancel out all preceding charters, stating that a new charter would be tabled in the future.
Aaaagh asseblief! Nou het ek alles gehoor….
Vlok Mbalula, vlok sokker, vlok die minister van onderwys, vlok die ANC…..en vlok julle klomp vlokkers wat op rugby se rug wil ry vir transformasie, faaaaarkofff, the bunch of you!
Eisshhh!
Oh, and faark the Kings too!
Jeeez…..maybe I should try and get back onto Keo again and vloek hulle almal se moere, from CampsBay to Bonteheuwel, klomp semelkop werfbobbejane.
O, lest I forget, vlok Jurie Roux as well, the ANC gatkruiper.
I will tell his sister as much in G’bay, as sy weer daar by swaerie se huis kom wynsuip langs die braaivleisvuur,
Faaaark!
2 @ Pietman:
Hahahaha
Janee broer…
Daai “Semelkoppe” en “Werfbobbejane” woorde van jou herinner my aan ons fights daar op Voldy…. hehehe
@ Pietman:
Eintlik Piet is dit net Sharks ondersteuners op Kepo wat die fokkers uitwys vir wat hulle is.
@ grootblousmile:
:lol; hiyas Rudi and Pieta,
Yup the fights still go on in Voldy, but it’s is mostly Sharks supporters against the rest, Die Kings word nou opgehemel in Voldy,
I wish all the Sharks supporters would see the light and leave that farking dump site.
6 @ Sharks_forever:
Genade broer, sweer daai klomp pitswere wat daar blog af, jy gee jouself net angina deur daar te lees.
Ek was vir 3 jaar en 3 maande nie daar nie… mis dit nie, is ‘n vriendeliker en meer gemoedelike persoon… en geniet my rugby nou meer!
Rudi i am contemplating doing a Sharks article, it would be about the whole squad going into the Super 15, and i want to look at each position and see where the strengths and weaknesses , I was however thinking of me and you doing it together, and get JFK to do the WP part of it??
NOt sure who would do the same for Cheetahs and Queens??
and we make it one big article??
7 @ Sharks_forever:
They should because they are not wanted there. Pleased I finally left that place. Jeez how I stayed on there and blogged there for so long was just damn crazy.
Go read what Meyer had to say on the other thread here. He is going to try out Lambie at fh and the others as well. Seems Lambie and Janjties have one chance to prove if they can do it. Not fair should not put that pressure on a player by only giving him one chance. Jaco will be getting to try out fb on this tour it seems.
@ Puma:
Hiyas brudda, yeah i have , just not commented there as i was reading what Rudi and Piet had to say here.
9 @ Sharks_forever:
Great get that article up. I put up positions the other day on some thread. But only who I thought who would play where. So that article you gonna do will be a great one to discuss.
Also we need to leave the article up and update it as news come in re player movements etc
9 @ Sharks_forever:
We made those Articles early this year… detailing the full Squads of each Franchise… and their plus points and negative points.
I would hold back with those squads, until they are announced.
We did a seperate Article for each Super Rugby Franchise in SA… and I had to do the Sharks one because you were on AWOL at the time… hahaha
Cheetah4eva did the Cheetahs one, Scrumdown did the Lions one (he gets to rest this time), Kickers did the Stormers one, I did the Bulls and Sharks ones.
@ Sharks_forever:
Fok hulle, stuur n boodskappie op Voldy van my aan Capo/LukeisBaas/Khoisanking/SanGoiingsak/Shaunlangkop/G10/Robwhatever en al daai pienko’s en wannabee Che Chueverra’s…en se vir hulle ek se hulle almal se ma’s se harre.
15 @ Pietman:
Bwahahaha
Dink anyway hulle lees ALMAL die site ook….
14 @ grootblousmile:
I know, but we can discuss our teams who we think will get selected or not, who we think should. Something to keep us talking here…lol.
@ Pietman:
😆 pieta ek gaan blog nie daar nie broer, ek lees hier en daar vir nuus, maar post niks nie, Daai El crappo is een Pugla Madhir wat ek sal laaik om stukkend te bliksem 😆
Hy en daai transmoffiedoos.
@ grootblousmile:
Hulle lees hier Rudi, ons sien gereeld die kinderlike komentaar van hulle kant af 😆
@ grootblousmile:
Not sure why?? but i have a feeling the so called Sharks supporter that suddenly joined here just before the final and sat and hardly posted?? is none other than the sharks-pedigree dogfood, She and dawn are 2 huge trouble makers on Voldy
Suddenly that person dont blog here no more etc, Maybe i am wrong but it’s a feeling the whole time that person was here
19 @ Sharks_forever:
Wel, dan kry hulle darem kans om ‘n goeie rugby site te lees.
Ek het niks met hulle uit te waai nie, en laat hulle begaan.
Die goeie mense van daar wat hier wil kom praat is welkom, solank hulle net ons blog kultuur aanneem, waar ons respek vir mekaar toon.
Die wat wil kom moeilikheid maak moet nie eers probeer nie, hulle sal nie eers land nie, dan boot ek hulle vir touch!
@ grootblousmile:
lol but that was for the old year lol
And i was hoping you could takes each article and make it one.
@ grootblousmile:
😆 hulle noem RT , the dark side , mormons 😆
23 @ Sharks_forever:
No problem… we call them Voldy…
22 @ Sharks_forever:
Think we should just wait up till the Super Rugby squads are announced, should be any day now, seeing as the New Zealand sides are all done and a couple of the Aussie sides are done too (Reds, Brumbies)
@ Sharks_forever:
Transie knows his rugby, not a bad oke, a sports lover he is, very knowledgable.
But that ‘live-in squeeze’ of his is a wild one, Lilith/hater/Rosso….where other people see white, she sees red, and when she sees Pietman, she starts thinking blue murder and burning the township!
26 @ Pietman:
Ek dink sy is so paar mieliepitte kort van ‘n heel stronk!
@ Sharks_forever:
@23
Well then, some improvement there at last after 3 years…they used to call us Oranians, KKK, AWB and so on.
‘Dark side’ we are indeed, hulle weet hulle gaan gemoer word as die ligte afgaan! Soos in PE 1995 WC….
28 @ Pietman:
Neewat, ek moer nie aan kak nie, want kak spat…
Ek sal hulle met ‘n skopgraaf bloot verwyder, so maklik soos dit.
Die vredeliewende lot, hulle is welkom.
@ grootblousmile:d
Nee, is reg bru, hulle kan kom hierheen, hulle moet hulle net gedra. Dis mos n ordentlike plek die!
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