Peter de Villiers
Former Springbok coach Peter de Villiers was a guest speaker at an event where a group of supporters burned a Springbok jersey out of protest last week.
A new organisation, Supporters Against Racist Rugby Associations (Sarra), was officially launched in Mossel Bay last Friday, where the group burned a Springbok rugby jersey.
The group wants to see more players of colour in the Springbok team and feels not enough is being done to speed up the transformation process in South African rugby.
De Villiers, 58, attended the event as guest speaker.
De Villiers, who coached the Springboks between 2008 and 2011, has made headlines over the past few weeks for his scathing criticism of current national coach Heyneke Meyer.
He feels Meyer is not giving enough black players the opportunity to prove their worth and wrote in a column that the current Bok coach “underestimated the intelligence of black people with a dishonest selection”.
He has also said that Meyer has taken South African rugby “into the gutters”.
De Villiers will work as a rugby pundit for the SABC during this year’s Rugby World Cup.
The 2015 Rugby World Cup, to be staged in England and Wales, runs from 18 September until 31 October.
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@ nortie:
😆
Still think JPP has something left in the tank.
One of the few players that makes the right decisions consistently, in crucial, game changing moments.
Hopefully the RWC will ignite what’s left of his career.
Jisjis, ek is terug innie mix…amper gedooi vandag van die hitte, 55 grade C toe ek pad gevat het 4 nm uit Riyadh, niks koue water innie huis, alles is kokend, selfs die stort koue krane!
150 @ Ben-die-Bul:
Ja ek gaan BiDiBiDi,
Het juis nou met iemand op die telefoon klaargemaak en vir hom gesê hy moet my nou uitlos, sodat ek kan fokus op rugby!
152 @ Pietman:
Flok, as dit so warm is, kry jy seker ‘n helse tan as jy buite is… van wit na oorgaar in paar minute!
Hulle sal jou MOET herklassifiseer wanneer jy terugkom na SA, as BEE-enabled, Affirmative Actioned… nie meer wit nie!
Hier is Heyneke se span (nie myne nie!)
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@ grootblousmile:
@154 Ja wragtag, noggie SO daaraan gedink nie, BEE kan werk!
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