Desmond Tutu
Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu says South Africa deserves to have a Springbok team representative of its rainbow nation, The Star reported on Friday.
“Now, nearly 20 years later, I lament the tortoise pace at which transformation at the highest level is being effected,” he said in a letter to The Star’s sister paper, The Cape Times.
Tutu criticised the SA Rugby Union (SARU) for the pace of transformation in the team, and said it was “particularly hurtful” to see the selection of black players as “peripheral squad members never given the chance to settle down and earn their spurs.”
Sport24
He said the country deserved a team that represented the “full spectrum of the rainbow that defines us”.
“Surely, by the 20th anniversary of our freedom from enforced separateness, there are a couple of dark horses out there to run with the browns and the chestnuts in feature races?”
On Saturday, the Springboks take on Argentina in Salta in the Rugby Championship.
Their starting 15 will include four coloured players (Cornal Hendricks, Damian de Allende, Bryan Habana and Gurthrö Steenkamp), and the remaining 11 are white. Two (Tendai Mtawarira and Lwazi Mvovo) of the eight players on the bench are black.
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With the eye on next year’s Rugby World Cup, former Springbok captain John Smit says it is important for the Boks to beat the All Blacks in this year’s Rugby Championship.
Under the guidance of Heyneke Meyer, the Springboks have lost four Tests on the trot against the All Blacks.
Their last win came in Port Elizabeth in 2011, when Peter de Villiers was still the coach.
The Boks are scheduled to meet the All Blacks at the semi-final stage at next year’s World Cup in England, and Smit feels they must beat them now in order to go into the event confident.
“You don’t want to enter a World Cup tournament without beating New Zealand. Now is the time,” Smit said.
Before the semi-finals of next year’s showpiece event, South Africa could face either Australia, Wales or England in the quarter-finals.
In this year’s Rugby Championship, the Boks tackle the Kiwis on 13 September (Wellington) and 4 October (Johannesburg).
En so f@k ons voort…pleks hy n slag gaan rugby kyk op Montagu en ophou kuk kekkel…gaan vat n muskadeltjie saam met Pekeur, Arch. Jy is oppie verkeerde preekstoel ou
Damian de Allende, how ‘ coloured’, what does it mean? Coloured?
I thought he was a Portuguese okie from Minerton…
@ Pietman:
Milnerton…sorry Puma!
The erstwhile home of UniMil Club, renowned for their bottom feeding in the GCC some 25 years ago…I think they produced one WP player, Issy Trope, prop….
@ Pietman:
“gaan vat n muskadeltjie saam met Pekeur, Arch.”
So n ligte nagmaal sopie?
nortierd wrote:
Versta djy!
Ook net een sopie, asseblief,netnou raak die Arch gesuip en oproerig daar in die Koo, hoeka klipgooi wereld daai “The home of Klipdrift” , CBR se dorpslogo.
What a strange time to bring this up.
Usually they wait until just before a World Cup.
And them they threaten to take their passports away.
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Sensitive issue..
Tutu is not a politician and has always spoken from the heart… and he is most certainly an important voice in society so one should not underestimate his influence.
Whether we like it or not there is a perception that black players do not get enough opportunities or are being discarded too quickly. What other reason can there be for so many of them to disappear once out of junior ranks?
Perhaps HM should at least have left Oupa Mohoje on the bench … to the outside world it does now appear as if Mohoje has suddenly been leapfrogged by a “yesterdays hero”…..perhaps he could have shown more faith in players like Aplon, Kolisi and de Jongh… maybe he should have rewarded Nizaan Carr for having had a great super rugby season… ( sorry I only mention WP players, but their names came up first)
I do not think we should just dismiss what Tutu is trying to say… patience out there might be wearing thin and his ears are most likely closer to the ground then most of ours.
@ gunther:
Buthane Komphela, yes,I recall the passport threat ….fortunately he is now ‘deployed’ in the Free State somewhere, Minister of Roads or something…
Pietman wrote:
As far as I know Damian is Portuguese and comes from a single parent family and had quite a hard upbringing.
Pietman wrote:
They also produced Pootjie van Jaarsveldt who later played for Bellville.
The Keo blogger Grant 10 played flyhalf for their first team with the other blogger “Just rugby” as scrumhalf. According to “Just Rugby” Grant kicked the leather of the ball and made Naas Botha look like a Carlos Spencer.
@ robzim:
The Arch is looking from the pulpit downwards, checking the heads of players… he should get down to the level of development in the townships and amounts like R70k (2006) SARU spent per year on development.
But I am not going to debate this with you, I have lost interest in this topic a loooong time ago already, I would rather that our in-house experts like Srumdown, TonyM and PissMier answer you on this, they have the facts and figures.
@ robzim:
…he worked for old Hendrik Sloet’s Broederbond Bank(the irony of it all!) at the time,with my ex-wife, small world!!!
I know, saw GrantB play more than once
But anyway, the best kicker in the comp at that time was Jerome Smith, Noordelikes. I am ure GB remembers him, also Otto Jaeckel (Bellville) , Hannrs Fabricius Grant Abernethy and a few others.
But UniMil was uberkuk, believe me, awfull venue to play, that windy Ysterplast area.
@ Pietman:
and driving!!!
Pardon typos please
robzim wrote:
There you go, thx.
@ Pietman:
Ask Boomslang Coetzee about UniMil…vuilgatte gewees daai lot van die basis!
@ robzim:
I miss those guys.
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Sorry I only mention WP players but their names come up first.
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just get Jaco to ref
seems we should all forgive him his sins, unlike Bryce.
hypocrisy, SA is home…
@ nga puhi:
I thought you’d taken your toys and gone home
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@ nga puhi:
Hello there! Sorry about your miserable outing, I know you were very much forward to the match…and then the miserable weather with Saffa refs to boot, eishhh! Shyte happens bru, pity the ABs couldn’t make it 18 in a row…same as when git halted at the 17 mark by a mediocre English side.
Pietman wrote:
no miserable outing here, enjoyed the game immensely…
what I did enjoy more though, was Jaco’s frank admission that corroborated my initial perception, in that he was very poor… full credit to him for admitting it, not that many SA supporters will acknowledge his admission..
seems we kiwis cant complain, must be that old chestnut the IRB bias meaning we cant question a refs inadequacy.
so much for consistency huh?
@ nga puhi:
I see though, that Jaco was vindicated by the ‘Don’, Andre Watson. He reckons Jaco was too lenient with the Kiwis at the fringes of the breakdown…oh, who to believe, I ask you!!!
Perhaps the Frenchie can bring some order to thinks tomorrow
@ Pietman:
things….
Indeed.
The Ball Sacks thoroughly deserved their yellow card.
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Pietman wrote:
Jaco got it wrong both ways, it was a very inept performance.
if I was a Saffa, then me mentioning it would be greeted with derisions of agreement, seeing as Im kiwi, it must be because we lost.
I cant wait until a SA player is yellow carded in NZ or Aus, I imagine that no one will complain about that decision
oh wait,…
They are like the Stormers as soon as you get inside their 22 players are all over the place in rucks offside etc.
Good on Peyper for having the guys to take them on.
Everyone else Is too afraid.
I see Poite had been rewarded with another test at Eden Park.
Pietman wrote:
wasnt it kaplan? a bloke who reffed the tahs to 1 win in 17 matches????
I of course would take his word as gospel, that kind of stat reveals that he was indeed totally honest 😯
Jaco has maintained the cheating standard expected of SA, it is a shame the same levwl of abuse that was directed towards bryce hasnt been reciprocated, but then I guess it sums up Saffas in a nutshell..
@ nga puhi:
And we Saffas still still sulk about Bryce as well, I mean we lost the world cup because of him. He apologised and all that, but….
You do remember the first comment on that game thread, don’t you? I warned you
Sport is colourless, why always try colouring it? I am black South African, bt this thing of always putting colour in sports especially rugby is annoying. Bafana Bafana have only 1 mlungu who’s a semi-regular, Danny Furman, bt Safa is nt pushed to dis quotas thing. Tutu and friends should talk about young black development of rugby in townships and rural areas then we’ll see after that what happens. Bt pliz take your colour pencils our of sport we enjoy it colourless.
@ nga puhi:
Yes, Kaplan too…
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