SA Rugby transformation Agenda
The South African Rugby Union (SARU) has confirmed its plans to ensure that half the Springbok team is made up of players of colour by 2019.
Rapport on Sunday revealed SARU’s Transformation Strategic Plan, which aims to bring all of South Africa’s representative rugby teams, along with domestic teams in line with national targets in five years.
Of the Springbok team currently competing in the Rugby Championship, 19% of the players are non-white, while only 12% are black African. Zimbabwean-born prop Tendai Mtawarira was the only black African player to start in the defeat to Australia in Perth, with Trevor Nyakane warming the bench.
But SARU wants to make sure that by 2019 at least half the Springbok side consists of players of colour, with 60% of those required to be black African.
SARU also set a mandate for Bok coach Heyneke Meyer to select at least five black players in his squad for the 2015 Rugby World Cup in England as well as include seven players of colour in his match-day squad in the lead-up to the tournament.
According to Beeld, all 14 of South Africa’s provincial unions approved the new strategic plan on August 13 this year.
SARU has already shared the plan with SASCOC and the sports ministry. The next step is for SARU’s general council to approve the plan.
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At least half the Springbok side must consist of players of colour in five years’ time, with 60% of those required to be black African.
SARU’s Strategic Transformation Plan will address transformation in rugby in a bid to meet racial targets by 2019.
Sport24 – Rapport
In addition, Heyneke Meyer will be expected to field a side containing at least five black players at the World Cup in England next year.
The plan, which was revealed in Sunday newspaper Rapport, will see a comprehensive overhaul of the current structures, including demands on the Springboks, Blitzboks and Junior Boks teams, as well as teams in the Vodacom Cup, Currie Cup and Super Rugby tournaments. There will also be quotas in amateur rugby and across all Craven Week tournaments.
The aim is to make sure that all representative teams contain at least 50% players of colour within the next five years.
Of the Springbok team currently competing in the Rugby Championship, only 19% are non-white, while only 12% are black African. Zimbabwean-born prop Tendai Mtawarira was the only black African player to start in the defeat to Australia in Perth, with Trevor Nyakane warming the bench.
The plan was drawn up by the SARU executive council earlier this year after being heavily criticised by the department of sport, and sports minister Fikile Mbalula, over the lack of transformation in the current Bok team.
Meyer will be encouraged to make sure there are at least seven players of colour in the Springbok match-day squad from next year, while Neil Powell’s SA Sevens squad will be expected to adhere to a strict 40% colour quota.
Dawie Theron’s Junior Boks have to select at least 12 players of colour in his squad of 28 for the 2015 Junior World Championship in Portugal, four of whom must be black.
The plan will also address transformation among coaches, referees, team managers, administrative officers and suppliers of services to SARU.
At least 30% of national coaches must be coloured come next year, with at least 10% required to be black.
“It’s a sustainable way to implement transformation in South African rugby,” said Mervin Green, Saru’s general manager for development. “Most of SARU’s provinces have failed to yield results due to lack of proper talent identification and development programmes.
“The transformation plan will be monitored annually to identify barriers that have a negative impact on the implementation.”
84 @ Pietman:
Cheers Pietman, I’m also almost out
@ Pietman:
Nag Piet
@ MacroBok:
@86 Thx, see you already picked up on the Glencoe debacle.
@ nortierd:
How much did they pay for Arno?
“In Garsfontein alone there were 5 POC brought up from Cape Town and guess how many got an offer from the Bulls?”
Is there a way to compare the education they got at Garsfonntein compared to what they would have had where they came from? Or were they professional rugby players since they were 14?
We are going to continue getting these type of things because of a ridiculous system where they want to force a countrywide demographic on a region, the Lions also brought in the Jantjies brothers in high school? there is some great pressure on unions to deliver on these quotas, it only makes sense they will try and import these players.
We will also see more foreign africans playing rugby as the years move on as well
@ MacroBok: @ Pietman:
Orrait. Dankie
Goed om oor ‘n kontroversiele onderwerp soos die te kon praat sonder om modder te gooi of persoonlik/beledigend te raak. Ons hoef nie altyd saam te stem nie, maar solank ons mekaar se reg om te verskil kan respekteer, is als seker OK.
Nag almal.
94… The sharks are making a big effort to import Zimbabwean players as we could have seen from their Craven Week teams.
95 @ Nama:
Ek stem, ek wou dit ook nounou noem, ek was op n stadium heeltemal gekant teen die tipe artikels want niemand wen ooit nie.
94 @ MacroBok:
The number I heard was R 800 000 and that was while he was doing post matric. It obviously is higher now as he is a “Bok” as well.
The kids at Garsfontein were, and the latest, are brought up for rugby, and more particularly, to beat Waterkloof. And that they did at last, after Waterkloof beat them by 100 points a couple of years ago.
The schooling will probably be better than they might have gotten and it’s an opportunity for them as well, but we are talking about young kids leaving home in Grade 8 already.
Fact is, they are here and obviously playing well, but for whatever reason don’t get the same rating as a Pollard did when he was 15 or Arno did.
All that hype over Arno and the guy has hardly finished a rugby game
Nag almal
Lekker slaap
@ MacroBok:
@ Nama:
Lots of times we differ on subjects, it’s the nature of the game, but these topics can be discussed rationally.
I seriously doubt the same type of debate is happening on SARugbymag and Sport24
@ MacroBok:
“Is there a way to compare the education they got at Garsfonntein compared to what they would have had where they came from?”
A study by the US actually found that a learner does better if he studies in his own environment. Ie, a black kid from Gugs will do better in matric if he/she would’ve stayed there instead of moving to a “better” school in the suburbs. It was found that many of the average performers in (grade 8 for example) who stay behind, outperforms the top learners in matric who enrolled in the suburbs.
@ nortierd:
Hoeveel kinders gaan koshuis toe in Graad 8 reg oor die land?
Ek voel glad nie sleg as kinder die geleentheid gegee word tot goeie onderrig nie as word hulle nie dadelik die wereld belowe nie, as hulle dit nou nie na matriek kon maak nie, is dit mos nie die einde van die wereld nie, ek sou glad nie omgegee het om na so n skool toe te gaan nie, dit is nie ashof hulle na die middel van Rusland toe gesleep is en net daar gelos is nie, hulle moes IEWERS skool gaan en in die einde is dit hulle keuse.
Arno sal reg kom, dan sal PW hom seker probeer koop aan die einde van sy loopbaan.
Nama wrote:
Is that at all applicable?
Would you leave a kid in Gugulethu if he could go to Paarl Gym? or Grey College? If he had the talent? FOR FREE?
101 @ Nama:
Does the pressure to perform at sport play a part?
Imagine being 14-15 years old and knowing that your whole schooling payments hinge on you having to score 100 runs every time you must bat, or take 5 wickets, or score tries…..
Is it fair to the kids?
102 @ MacroBok:
Kinders wat koshuis toe gaan uit hul en hul ouers se keuse en sak tel nie in die geval nie.
Neem n kind en sit hom 1000 km weg van die huis af en hy weet hy moet week in perform op die sport veld anders verloor hy alles wat hulle hom verniet gee.
Sy sakgeld by die skool is seker groter as sy ouers se salaris.
Dis baie druk om op n jong kind te sit
104 @ nortierd:
That could happen everywhere, you could even branch that out to pressures from parents which will be far far greater especially in preppy schools, How many kids will commit suicide because they got offered a rugby bursery but couldnt get a provincial contract after matric compared to academicaly underachieving student?
@ nortierd:
Ouers plaas TONNE meer druk op hul kinders as enige skool.
Cheers all, I’m out.
Have a lekker week
MacroBok wrote:
Ook waar, gewoonlik misplaas
@ nortierd:
As dit by n salaris kom gaan dit bietjie ver, ek sal dit erken… maar om so n beurs te kry met bilikke sakgeld is wonderlik.
Cheers almal ek gaan nou rerig maak soos rokoff
@ MacroBok:
Yes, it is applicable in that the rugby player is lured there for his rugby abilities in the 1st place not his IQ. He can be as dumb as a plank, his rugby coach don’t care about that. All he wants him to do is play good rugby and help the school to win.
@ nortierd:
Absolutely not fair.
Many of these kids are sponsored by individual sponsors. So if Mossie se Slaghuis sponsors Leighton Gertze this year but he is not in a position to do so the next year, the parents just get a phone call to come and get their kid.
@ Nama:
Laaste ding, ek sien die geheime nommer vir die jaar se Tuis toetse in die RC is 4!
112 @ Nama:
And you as a parent, what would you want for your child?
Nama wrote:
I have no idea what Heyneke is thinking.
Would you support institutionalized minimum quotas?
I want the best for my kids and I work towards giving them that.
Why? What do you want for your kids as a parent?
@ Stormersboy:
I’ve already stated that at CC and SR level…yes.
For too long coaches and rugby supporters have told us that it will happen naturally. They based their claim on the amount of POC’s in the different schools tournaments, Varsity Cup, Vodacom Cup over the years. And yet, we struggle after all these years to satisfy supporters across the spectrum that the national team is selected on merit and that nobody is discriminated against. Where are all these POC’s who took part in these tournaments? What happen to them?
At Bok level only merit should be the criteria. But I’m not sure that anybody can convince me that Pollard and Janneman are currently in the Bok team on merit.
One of the best performances by a Bok team in the last 20 years was produced by this team on 23 July 2005 at Ellispark against Australia. We beat them 33-20 in a pulsating game. Nearly 10 years later people fear that rugby will go down the drain if we select a similar team.
1. Gürthro Steenkamp
2. John Smit (c)
3. Eddie Andrews
4. Bakkies Botha
5. Victor Matfield
6. Solly Tyibilika
7. Juan Smith
8. Joe van Niekerk
9. Enrico Januarie
10. André Pretorius
11. Bryan Habana
12. Jean de Villiers
13. Jaque Fourie
14. Breyton Paulse
15. Percy Montgomery
Reserve Fourie du Preez
Reserve Schalk (jnr) Burger
Reserve Wayne Julies
Reserve Albert van den Berg
Reserve Hanyani Shimange
Reserve Lawrence Sephaka
Happy birthday Webmonster
119 @ nortierd:
The old fella a year older today?
Conget’s GBS.
May there be many more.
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