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.”
148 @ MacroBok:
Dankie ou seun… hehehe
150 @ BrumbiesBoy:
Shit, I did not think I looked half as old as you… so how old are you… 130?
@ grootblousmile:
Al weer sulke tyd, eishhh, die tyd hy loop, maar geluk ou maat, ek hoop jy hou nog jaaaare!
152 @ Pietman:
Dankie Pieta!
Ja, die tyd hy loop… die werk raak nie klaar nie, die man raak klaar!
@ grootblousmile:
Jy NOU eers 50! Flok, ek het gedog jy is lankal daar verby
Nee, dan sal ek eers bietjie moet briek dat jy nader kom…
grootblousmile wrote:
Dis ok, geld moet net nie klaar raak nie…
Waar is Scrumdown? Ek mis die bruvva aanmekaar netnet op die site. Ek hoop regtig hy kan daai neusmenstruasie nou uitsort, uitputtende affere, so n bloeding, tap n man se krag.
Sterkte Scrumdown! Hou daai BP so by 120/70 rond ou mater.
Off the topic, but this man needs to punished once and for all, he is bringing the good name of WP in disrepute every time he runs on the field. Send him back to Robertson and let Pekeur pick him for the Koo against Ceres Delicious, they play his kind of rugby:
Cape Town – Western Province forward Rynhardt Elstadt will appear before a SARU disciplinary committee in Cape Town on Tuesday for charging dangerously into a ruck during their
Currie Cup clash against the EP Kings last Friday.
154 @ Pietman:
Nee kyk, ek het baaaie myle oppie klok, maar ek is nog nie so ou model nie.
Paar dinge en plekke al gesien en belewe!
Is ookie so hard gery in die lewe nie, net so nou en dan goed gerev!
155 @ Pietman:
Janee, die geldjies moet maar hou… en hou… en hou!
157 @ Pietman:
Daai Elstadt is ‘n BOEF van formaat, hulle moet hom wegjaag, die sponsparra… hy hou net aan kak aanjaag!
156 @ Pietman:
Hi Pietman
Ek loer so af en toe in, gooi my speelgoed rond dan probeer n bietjie geld maak.
No work no pay hier, so moet probeer opmaak vir die hospitaal tyd.
Glo my ek gaan nou werk aan daardie BP storie. Nou moeg vir n hospitaal. (Daar is deesdae BAIE MIN aantreklike verpleegsters.)
@ Scrumdown:
Kan nie so aangaan nie broer…sal jou op en bankrot maak, eish!
Ek hoop regtig dis nou die laaste kuk hand wat 2014 jou uitgedee hetl daai.
Sterkte!
@ BrumbiesBoy:
“You’re either for it or against it,…”
Hau, George W. Bush!
I don’t hear you complain about the non-merit selection of Pollard and Janneman. You of “merit should be the only criteria” fame.
Namas is very much for it until the day it bites him in the ass and the ANC tells him that there is an “under representation of ethnic African teachers in the cape” .
And then the kak will hit the fan.
😆
@ gunther:
Didn’t they say that already? 😉
@ Nama:
I believe they may have mentioned it.
They are not yet at the implementation stage inshallah.
😆
@ gunther:
Auntie Renate Taljaard just lost her case in the Constitutional Court. I can’t see the wardens winning theirs after what Dikgang said.
Since we have an “overpopulation of Coloureds in the Westen Cape”, it is off to Limpopo with those brothers. It will sommer help SARU to reach their “targets/quotas”. Whatever it is called now. We all know those prison warders (and their sons) can play good rugby. Look at JdJ, the son of a warden 😉
165 @ Nama:
That’s one case the State couldn’t afford to lose at any cost, heaven forbid if they did, that would mean they would have to promote some of us.
They were never ever going to lose that case
@ nortierd:
Well if it wasn’t for your blogging career maybe they would promote you.
😆
@ Nama:
Well let’s hope that they stop at prison guards.
Otherwise we are going to see a repeat of the great trek except instead of oxwagons the mode of transport will be tweaked conquests.
😆
@ gunther:
Let me put it this way, I’ve even stopped wasting paper and time applying.
Now, my blood pressure is no longer 190/120 and I’m chilled and relaxed 😆
I just simply play by the rules others have put there
@ nortierd:
Well good luck to you it sounds like your glass is half full.
😆
gunther wrote:
Half full, yes 😆
At last someone who agrees with me.
This comment from Gordon Hart on News24 yesterday.
“This gets back to an argument that I have made several times in the past. The only way to change the demographic of either cricket or rugby is to “develop” the sport, at grass root level outside the traditional nursery for both of these sports which is the so called Model C and private boys schools. If one looks at any recent Springbok or Protea team, they are made up almost entirely of players, regardless of colour, who come from the likes, in no particular order, of KES, Michaelhouse, St Johns, Grey, Paarl Boys High, Paul Roos, Bishops etc etc. Sure there have been exceptions to this rule but schools such as these are the power base of these 2 sports. For this to change, the Government, SA Rugby and SA Cricket need to take these sports to the schools of the masses. If they do I am sure they will find some real talent. Trying to force the issue will only result in pressure being put on players of colour, with suspect talent, to perform or face the ignominy of being labelled quota players. This is bad for sport, the nation and is particularly humiliating for the players themselves”
@ Scrumdown:
Too slow for their liking, they want a quick fix …and they don’t want to spend any money or wander around the townships after hours promoting development. They want transformation.
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