Saru look to snuff out racists
11 Sep 2008
Provincial players will wear a ‘No to Racism’ message on their jerseys when they run out for their respective teams this weekend.
The slogan will replace the sponsor’s logo on the players’ chests as an official show of Absa’s support for Saru’s drive to stamp out racism in rugby.
“This is a huge initiative that our provincial unions and sponsors instantly bought into,” said Regan Hoskins, president of the South African Rugby Union.
“We are putting the message squarely in front of our supporters and the whole rugby community so there can be no doubt about where rugby stands. We are utterly opposed to racism and will continue to campaign to get that message across.”
The Springboks’ big victory over Australia at Ellis Park was marred by a racist attack on spectator Ziningi Shibambo. Saru offered a R10 000 reward for information leading to the identification of the perpetrators, which failed to yield a response. Hoskins hopes this new campaign will help to prevent these attacks in future.
“It was a hideously cowardly attack on Ms Shibambo but it has helped galvanise us on an issue that we hoped was dying its own natural death.
“We now have an anti-racism message on all our website pages and have added a sentence from our constitution to our letterhead which states ‘the union will foster the game amongst all persons irrespective of race, colour, creed or gender.’
“But we wanted to go further and make the most public statement we could manage and I think this initiative does precisely that,” said Hoskins.
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12 Sep 2008, 10:32 am
#440 Pietman:
I don’t think so hey Pietman.
I know there are loads of Anti Racism initiatives run by UEFA and FIFA and it seems to be working.
Imagine Brian Habana playing for the Boks overseas and being treated to racist chants (****** chants)
12 Sep 2008, 10:32 am
#450 gretep: And what make you think the NTVL-WP thing is something of the past?
12 Sep 2008, 10:35 am
#450 gretep:
lots of white
players
went through their careers
with people saying
they’re
not good enough
if government
insists on demographic
representation
then it becomes
a problem
and
don’t refer back
to apartheid
it’s over
12 Sep 2008, 10:35 am
#451 wpw: It is ‘n kuk idea as long as it is portrayed in a subjective manner – and make no mistake the world out there is not stupid, they see these things. I support the idea, but not the execution.
12 Sep 2008, 10:38 am
Good night children – I’m off. Have a good one.
12 Sep 2008, 10:39 am
#450 gretep: #451 wpw:
I hear you boys, and I don’t disagree with your sentiments at all.
Just get Patricia de Lille in there , let her sort this lot out, I am too old for this bs!
WPW, how is our new WP # 3 doing btw…you still feeding him the good stuff/
You give him the Pronutroand Jungfle Oats, uncle Pietman will show him the jinx !
12 Sep 2008, 10:44 am
Ag ou Hoskings raak nou regtig paranoid.Is hy dan nie die ou wat gese
het ou PDV is op meer as net rugbymeriete aangestel nie.Hoekom worry
oor rassime as jy 700 000 van 1.2 m sake van die hofrol moet skrap
omdat die getuies,dockets ens ‘missing’ raak.As net 10% van daai
ouens van die 700 000 skuldig was is daar nou 70 000 crooks wat heeltyd
bank toe lag. Ek sou as ek Hoskings was meer worry oor dit,net nou
steel een van hulle die logos en dan is al die wit rassiste weer in die kak.
12 Sep 2008, 10:46 am
#456 Pietman:
i shall never
trust
de lille
she was part
and spokesman
of the pac
when their
stated mission was
killing of white farmers
early 90′s
12 Sep 2008, 10:47 am
#457 brentie:
Dis n apie-parade my maat…
Die mense is simpel.
12 Sep 2008, 10:49 am
#458 Porra:
Genuine?
Didn’t know that…
But she seems to be a lot more moderate know.
Who else?
Zuma?
12 Sep 2008, 10:50 am
#456 Pietman:
He is still on milk only but he is growing nicely.
He WILL NOT play rugby… hehehe
12 Sep 2008, 10:51 am
#458 Porra:
I will trust Zuma for one reason only, and that is because he is Zulu.
I don’t trust the XhosaNostra no more.
12 Sep 2008, 10:51 am
#460 Pietman: she is just more moderate now because she is part of the opposition, very radical views and hates the whites with a passion
12 Sep 2008, 10:53 am
#461 wpw:
Ok, sad news.
Let him go for the money then, golf or tennis.
I will just watch, I don’t know much about those larney sports that you are grooming little WPW for…
12 Sep 2008, 10:54 am
#463 EEE:
Ok, I will take her off my list then, tx.
12 Sep 2008, 10:56 am
#452 Roman Moroni:
Not gone at all just added to by the quota debate….
12 Sep 2008, 11:32 am
#463 EEE:
How can you say she hates whites???
Pietman
You should be careful what you believe as fact. Why would she appoint so many ‘whites’ to positions of authority in the ID if she hated whites???
Imagine I made a statement that Pieter Mulder (FF+) hated blacks because there are no blacks in positions of authority in his party???
12 Sep 2008, 11:38 am
#462 Pietman: He is the emperor penguin the others were just jackasses.
12 Sep 2008, 11:39 am
#467 wpw:
she was spokesman
for pac
when their military wing
apla launched
a concerted effort
to kill
white farmers
especially
east free stae
early 90′s
with the onset
of codessa
and that’s
been documented
you can believe that
as fact
12 Sep 2008, 11:42 am
zuma will
be ruled by
the ancyl
the sacp
cosatu
12 Sep 2008, 11:57 am
#469 Porra: let me guess…
you also hate souties cos of what happened to your ancestors nearly 100 years ago???
Dude, get over yourself please… ever heard of the word forgiveness???
12 Sep 2008, 12:00 pm
yes
i did
doesn’t change the facts
though
12 Sep 2008, 12:06 pm
#470 Porra: More likely his **** and the highest bidder, just like any other politician.
No different anywhere else in the world.
12 Sep 2008, 12:34 pm
#473 Objective 101:
being manipulated
by them
already
12 Sep 2008, 13:39 pm
#408 Roman Moroni:
12 Sep 2008, 16:51 pm
Look, I dont think it will have much effect, but I do commend SA Rugby on doing something about it. What will have effect, Im not sure. We as the rugby loving public need to report these incidents immediately as we see them, that will be effective. It is totally unacceptable that incidents like this happen at our rugby stadiums.
But at the same time lets see what comes out of the meeting between Hoskins and De Villiers, its also totally unacceptable the comments he made. Lets see how SA Rugby deal with this.
12 Sep 2008, 22:09 pm
To think that racism in SA doesnt exist, is just plain dumb. And to have the automatic reaction “reverse racism, quotas, etc. ad nauseum” doesnt help either. We should support all efforts to stamp it out anywhere….
13 Sep 2008, 00:16 am
I hope they handed one out to snor……….
13 Sep 2008, 04:11 am
What a comedy-show! Pure farce.
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