New Bok jersey ‘a symbol of unity’
9 May 2009
The new national jersey featuring the King Protea on the left and the Springbok on the right should appeal to all South Africans, says Andy Marinos.
Springbok captain John Smit and host of other contracted Boks wore the jersey at the recording for an advertisement for the coming British & Irish Lions Series which will be flighted on SuperSport this Saturday.
Marinos, Saru’s acting MD, says the changes to the jersey were inevitable.
‘We decided to be proactive rather than reactive and not wait for the promulgation of the pending National Colours act,’ he said. ‘Our leaders met with government as we were fully aware that the King Protea is the national symbol and that it had to be properly incorporated into the Springbok jersey.
‘Obviously modifying something that has such strong emotional symbolism as the Springbok jersey generates a lot of emotion, but team will still be known as the Springboks as we realise the importance and strength of the brand, both locally and abroad.
‘Having seen the new jersey, we’re actually very excited as it underlines the fact that we are the team of all the people of South Africa.’
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9 May 2009, 14:31 pm
#46 Pietman:
Hickville is an invention of Keo.
It came about, when a survey of all the Australian S14 players, found Pretoria was the least liked travel destination.
So Keo did his own best and worst destinations.
In Ozzie, Sydney rated the best. Canberra the worst.
In NZ, Queenstown the best. Hickville the worst.
9 May 2009, 14:32 pm
#46 Pietman: #41 Ed_the_Lion: Hallou Pietman en koning van die oerwoud!!!
Welgedaan aan jou en jou span Ed!
9 May 2009, 14:34 pm
#51 cane:
Hicksville on the other hand has something to do with commic strips originating in NZ if I am not mistaken.
9 May 2009, 14:43 pm
#45 Sonito: so what if they are paying them royalties…isn’t saru asking the government to back them with these upcoming bids? So much is being said about money being wasted in changing street names, some people would say it’s a waste of a whole lot of money to bid & host these rugby world cups…your pontificating is tiresome, get on with it!
The springboks are the past, bloggers on this site are always telling people to ”move on, the war is over” why don t you try practising what you preach & quit moaning about everything affirm your preferred way of life & thinking?
9 May 2009, 14:47 pm
”moaning about everything that doesn’t affirm”
9 May 2009, 14:48 pm
#53 PissAnt:
Untill I saw Keo’s reference to Hamilton as Hickville, I had never seen the reference before.
9 May 2009, 14:53 pm
#51 cane:
Thx, interesting that.
#52 SA Barbarians:
Jisja, wat se die manne.
Groot wedstryd voor vir die Sharks, kom ons gesels daar verder.
9 May 2009, 14:55 pm
#56 cane: Cane sorry about your team mate but they will still make the semi. See the Mex going to do the commentary again in Durban. Really enjoy listening to him.
9 May 2009, 14:58 pm
#54 Transformation:
I did not read his comment as a ‘so what’ comment.
More in the line of that it is apparently done (the inclusion of the Protea) under the guise of ‘unity’ when in fact it is all about money and nothing else… which is in fact very believable
But then some people will read only what they want to.
Okay rugby time – cheers.
9 May 2009, 15:01 pm
#56 cane:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hicksville_(graphic_novel)
just add the http part – no w’s
9 May 2009, 15:02 pm
#58 Puma:
“#56 cane: Cane sorry about your team”.
Don’t be Puma. We all make our own destiny.
We were not good enough.
Man what a competition. Sharks/Bulls game next week has a lot riding on it. Finals intensity.
And then we have the semi-finals.
9 May 2009, 15:08 pm
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Hicksville is a graphic novel by Dylan Horrocks originally published by Black Eye Comics in 1998, since republished by Drawn and Quarterly.
[edit] Plot
Canadian writer Leonard Batts arrives in the tiny New Zealand town of Hicksville to research the early life of **** Burger, whose work has taken the comic book industry by storm. He finds that Hicksville is a town in which everyone from the postman to the farmer is an expert on comics, yet everyone seems to hate Burger. The novel explores the machinations of the comic book industry, and contains a fictionalized account of the history of mainstream American comics, with particular attention paid to the era of Image Comics.
Horrocks has said of the book: “It’s a story about comics — their history and poetry — and also about what we New Zealanders call ‘t?rangawaewae’ — having a place to stand in the world — a kind of spiritual home. Hicksville is my way of creating such a home for comics.”[1]
…………………….News to me PA. Maybe Keo did plagerise, it would not be the first time.
9 May 2009, 15:13 pm
#59 PissAnt: okay pissant…people forget that the springbok was discussed by the anc way back and mandela convinced his cronies @ the time that they should keep it, mandela now is no more running the movement, so when the issue surfaces he is not there as a ”voice of reason” so to speak…the old heads that detested the bokke are still agitating for it to be dropped make no mistake, i for one couldn’t be bothered by the emblem, it is the attitudes of people that attach & claim as theirs only the ”emotional symbolism” marinos talks about in this article…anyway straight to king’s park!
9 May 2009, 15:36 pm
#63 Transformation:
Well there we agree.
I could not be bothered either.
It is a symbol, a badge.
For me it is about the rugby, not the association to the symbol.
But I will be pissed if they change our strip colours to pink however…
9 May 2009, 15:38 pm
#63 Transformation:
And within saying that – you mention that what you detest is the attitude of the people that lay ‘claim’ to it.
Adversely, you should be equally detest by the people that do the opposite…
They too base their argument on a silly symbol.
9 May 2009, 20:05 pm
OK, I’m arriving here at the tail end of an involved Hicksville discussion….all I have to say is that at least now the blerrie bok is leaping towards the heart and not away from it, as the purists have been bemoaning. I look forward to a new golden era in za rugby, and if we can the S14, so be it. It is time to walk our own road, without sucking on the hind *** of Sanzar…..period.
9 May 2009, 22:10 pm
Still, no SA test rugby player will henceforth own a Springbok blazer. They’ll only get the Ricoffy jersey, not the Mocha Java one.
10 May 2009, 00:18 am
#56 cane:
Unless of course you drive into Hickville. You can hear the banjos playing and most have a slightly squint look with sticky out ears
10 May 2009, 01:39 am
Sounds #68 whatever: Sounds just like Benoni, Brakpan and Boksburg…
But they don’t have acres and acres of greenery and trees and a majestic broad river sighing quietly through the middle of the city like Hamilton does. Or a major university, full of bright and eager young students, out competing in rowing-eights against their famous equivalents from Oxford or Cambridge in the annual Waikato regatta…
Hamilton’s got it.
10 May 2009, 01:43 am
hick ville? well what do you come to expect from a third world country?
10 May 2009, 02:01 am
Be fair. They try hard over in BBB. (Brakpan, Benoni, Boksburg. Even gave the world Charlize Theron. Narrowly missed out when Witbank sneakily produced Anneline Kriel.
But that’s the third-world for you. Even Somalia, now notorious for pirates, gave David Bowie his lovely Iman.
10 May 2009, 02:22 am
#69 TheTackler:
Drugsville or gangsville, Tackler. Take your pick. Hamilton is a dive of note and a polluted river running through it does not quite crack it unfortunately.
10 May 2009, 06:15 am
That “polluted” river is teeming with fish all the way down to its mouth at Port Waikato — a prime fishery for those really big kahawai, and, at the source (Lake Taupo), you have the probably the finest rainbow trout fishery on earth. You can catch fat brown trout anywhere along the river banks in Hamilton city itself!
As for “drugsville and gangsville”, really, look no further than Cape Town! (We won’t even drag poor old Joburg into this one, hey?)
10 May 2009, 10:16 am
I dont have a problem in including the Protea on the jersey at all. What I do jave a problem with is the position on the jersey.
The team is known as the Springboks and not the Proteas. So Mr Marinos, not sure if you took this into consideration :
The senior position on the jersey is that on the left hand side, ie where the heart is. The Protea should have gone to the right hand side.
This is very sad indeed, one of these days due to sponsorship the bok emblem wil move to the arm to make way for a sponsor emblem.
10 May 2009, 10:24 am
#74 Gerhardt: Check out the new “Springbok” team blazer. THAT should cause a bout of hiccups!
10 May 2009, 20:21 pm
Andy Marinos is talking shite, why would this change and unite the nation and change the world and blah blah blah , actually all it will do is prove how politics has and always will play a major unwanted roll in South African rugby, one only has to read Jake White’s book to realize this. Why not have the protea on the right and the springbok on the left surely this would also unite the people etc. The springbok is not on the left for a simple reason and that is that the bitter little powers that be, know it pisses off a lot of rugby fans to have it on the right.
10 May 2009, 22:49 pm
#73 TheTackler: Haha….Taking the candy from the kids again. Nice!
11 May 2009, 11:58 am
#69 TheTackler: and
#73 TheTackler: HAHAHAHAHAHA that is the gayest comeback ever.
Do you work for the tourist board?
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