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).
Sazito wrote:
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I agree – one shouldn’t just talk about development at the ELITE levels (there is so much to do at grassroots levels), or for that matter, one shouldn’t just focus on rugby & cricket …
what about soccer, for instance – as a fan, I’m embarrassed about Bafana Bafana’s performances.
And the decline in soccer has been continuing for almost a generation (of freedom & equality) – does the decline not concern the sporting authorities, politicians & social/moral commentators?
(To cultivate champion wine wine you 1st need to focus on the terroir, rootstock & vineyard …)
@ nortierd:
haha, thx
but, I’m sure I’ll soon revert to mean
2019 Bok WC Team
1. Trevor N
2. Bongi (Tyson) / Scarra Ntubeni
3. Jannie Dup (seems like they will never get rid of him)
4. Eben (Quota)
5. Oupa
6. Nizaam
7. Kolisi
8. Ntemba
9. Rudi Page
10. Tony jantjies / Kurt Coleman
11. Senatla
12. De Allende (Djy weet mos)
13. Sithole
14. Cornal Hendriks
15. Kolbe
The only question is where Luke Watson will be accomodated,
@ Stormersboy:
At tighthead.
😆
@ Stormersboy:
Hel jong, jy ok? Klink jy is ook nou by die Arch se kerk
Pietman wrote:
Yes.. club rugby was big in those days.. Maties versus Villagers was epic… UCT too.
The Maties were the most hated team on Newlands… despite fielding just about the whole WP team ( Robbie Blair included) ..and when the same players played for WP they were treated like semi-gods.
Rob Wagner ( the current CEO) was not a bad flanker either… played for UCT.. not in the same league as Eben Coetzee (Boomslang) and Witsnor Geldenhuys but he was solid.. if it was not for those 2 and Piet Veldsman and Boland Coetzee he would probably have played for Province.
@ Stormersboy:
Coach?
Lawrence Sepaka springs to mind…
Pietman wrote:
AC 😉
Persistence will pay off!
😀
@ robzim:
Yes, great WP rugby, 70-80s! Jinx and I used to reminisce about those days sometimes…he was a program seller at Newlands hehe!
60 @ robzim:
Ha ha
Een malletjie vir n ander.
Suerez was something like a £75 Million transfer?
Obscene amounts
63 @ Stormersboy:
No Bissie, then no Jannie.
Package deal those two.
They want Bissie, but have to put up with Boetie
Rob Wagner was in the same team as Whipp and Dirk Hoffmann (centers), Teddie’s younger brother, and the best scrumhalf in WP Dave Zietsman! But Dok Craven preferred Divan
@ Pietman:
And Chris Pope.
Nelson Babrow…nanes start popping up now….slowly
age?
@ nortierd:
@ 70
Ja, its crazy.
Mario’s wages at Liverpool is reported to be a lot less than what Suarez earned but still amounts to £120 000 a WEEK ( R 2.2 million).
A couple of years ago he pranged his car into a building somewhere in London and when the cops arrived they asked him why he is carrying so much money (£5 000) in his back pocket to which he replied: ” Because I am rich”
Mad world.. 🙂
nortierd wrote:
I dunno. It’s always been no Jannie, no Bissie, but Jannie has the look of a guy who would drop his younger boet in a heart beat if it was the other way around……
🙂
You know there is a younger Du Plessis brother running around somewhere as well? He’s about 10 years younger, also plays in the front row (obviously, they don’t breed wings in that family).
Rob, if Bartelli behaves himself and plays to his potential, the Scousers are back in the pound seats and could go all the way this time.
@ Stormersboy:
Du Plessis wings are more south west from Bethlehem, in Somerset East, Gill College, not Grey College
@ Pietman:
Yip.. Dave was better than Divan.
Interesting that Dirk Hoffman, Chris Pope and Divan are all medical doctors today.. Chris is living in Canada.
Peter Whipp is still in CT… is quite a good longboard surfer…
UCT also had Peter Ingwerson at hooker and the massive Alan ( Butch) Deuchar at lock in those days. And Dugald McDonald at number 8…. quite a potent team.
Jeraldjay wrote:
Sounds like the WP/Stormers
This year WILL be their year
Jeraldjay wrote:
Ja, lets hope…
YNWA 🙂
@ robzim:
@80 I think the Hoffman’s are in PE, medical family, Dirk and Snr. He was a skinny bloke, Dirk.
Peter and I sat in same exams together from time to time, he was a law student, but did some modules at business school, commercial law and stuff. Have you ever checked the size of his forearms….and thighs! He and Johan Oosthuizen ran the 76 All Blacks moer toe, both in the WP game and test match at Newlands, hehehe!
@ nga puhi:
You demented idiot.I had one conversation with NZIC where I
acknowledged that Gerty was a cheat.You then went on and on about
Peyper attributing comments to me which I did not make.
And now you say I insulted Messams son.Where the hell do
you dredge this garbage up from.I have not made a single post EVER
regarding Messam and his family,Nor did I ever mention
Peyper.Point me to the relevant posts.
GBS please assist him in finding these posts.NZIC,show
some honour and acknowledge that I only mentioned
Gerty.
As for you,slither back into the sewer where you belong.
You clearly suffer from senile dementia.FOOL
@ robzim:
Dugald is back in the Cape somewhere again, I read recently. There were two of them, I recall, Dugald and Donald. I think Donald later played for Scotland?
82 @ robzim:
Sorry Rob. I fortunately do Walk Alone.
I’m a Gooner for life…
@ ryecatcher:
He was referring to some old news clipping from NZ, Aug 2013. Don’t where he saw the link between you and that…maybe at the bottom of his beer glass!
@ Pietman:
Yes.. a mate of mine is friends with Peter and introduced me to him behind the waves in Muizenberg… i did not really get the chance to talk to him but could see he is still in very fit and in good condition..
He was the brains of the Whipp/Oosthuizen combination and created the openings for Oosie who was all sideburns and raw speed.
Kaptein Oosthuizen… I think he was a detective or something in the SAP 🙂
@ robzim:
faaark, some of us are goners and that boy is still surfing!
Peter must be closing in on 60 now…
@ Pietman:
87 My comments seem to have been moderated.Thanks anyway.Regards Rye
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