Currie Cup latest (Thurs)
23 Sep 2010
Keo.co.za brings you the news from the Currie Cup.
Smit snubs Lions
John Smit has committed to the Sharks after turning down a lucrative offer from the Lions.
Smith has re-signed for the coastal union and will play for them in the 2011 Super Rugby competition. Insiders say Smit was offered a large sum to join the Lions, but turned the offer down.
The Bok captain is currently recovering from an operation and will not feature in the Currie Cup play-offs or South Africa’s Grand Slam Tour.
Van Heerden lends Lions bite
Former Bok flanker Wikus van Heerden will start against the Sharks.
Josh Strauss moves to No 8 to accommodate Van Heerden while Warren Whiteley falls out of the match 22.
Lions – 15 Jaco Taute, 14 Jannie Boshoff, 13 Waylon Murray, 12 Doppies La Grange, 11 Michael Killian, 10 Elton Jantjies, 9 Jano Vermaak, 8 Joshua Strauss, 7 Wikus van Heerden, 6 Derick Minnie, 5 Franco van der Merwe (c), 4 George Earle, 3 Ross Geldenhuys, 2 Martin Bezuidenhout, 1 JC Janse van Rensburg.
Subs: 16 Edgar Marutlulle, 17 Wayne Swart, 18 Johan Snyman, 19 Trevor Hall, 20 JP Joubert, 21 Burton Francis, 22 Deon van Rensburg.
Sharks stay the same
John Plumtree has been afforded the luxury of maintaining the same 22 for the Sharks match against the Lions.
Without any injuries in the squad, Plumtree admitted it was the first time in a while he didn’t have to worry about making any changes for the contest at Ellis Park on Saturday.
Sharks – 15. Louis Ludik , 14. Odwa Ndungane, 13. Stefan Terblanche (c), 12. Andries Strauss, 11. Lwazi Mvovo, 10. Patrick Lambie, 9. Charl McLeod, 8. Ryan Kankowski, 7. Willem Alberts, 6. Keegan Daniel, 5. Alistair Hargreaves, 4. Steven Sykes, 3. Eugene van Staden, 2. Craig Burden, 1. Patric Cilliers
Subs: 16. Kyle Cooper, 17. Wiehahn Herbst, 18. Michael Rhodes, 19. Jacques Botes , 20. Rory Kockott, 21. Andre Pretorius, 22. Riaan Swanepoel.
Mapoe worth a million plus
The Cheetahs have put a R1.5 million price tag on Lionel Mapoe.
Despite losing the legal battle to the Cheetahs, Mapoe still refuses to return to Bloemfontein and the Sharks are willing to pay a transfer fee.
However, the Cheetahs, who initially said they won’t accept any transfer fees for the wing, have demanded R1.5 million. This is R500 000 more than what the Bulls paid for Griquas speedster Bjorn Basson.
Bulls did it by the book
The Bulls are confident that they signed wing Bjorn Basson legally from Griquas.
This was according to High Performance manager Ian Schwartz after the Cheetahs announced they will take legal action against Griquas as they were not communicated in the transfer process. The Cheetahs, who pay a part of Basson’s wages, want to keep the wing.
Schwartz believes there should be no reason why the transfer should be stopped as they did it legally. The Bulls paid R1 million for Basson, who will join them on 1 November.
Eagles threaten to strike…again
The SWD Eagles’ players have threatened to boycott Friday’s clash against the Valke unless they are paid.
The players are angry as Saru has stopped all its funding to the union until the political infighting is resolved. Without Saru’s funding, the Eagles can’t afford to pay all their players.
The Eagles are second on the First Division log and this weekend’s match in George is supposed to be broadcast on TV.
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23 Sep 2010, 12:59 pm
the master plan is in motion
plod on way out
succession planning….
matter of time
23 Sep 2010, 13:06 pm
@gunther(gunther)-98: try premiership.co.uk
23 Sep 2010, 13:06 pm
@Grant: Isn’t next week the week for DIV?
23 Sep 2010, 13:09 pm
stormersboy
28th review for pdv
i know bloggers will disagree, but this lod omission from eoyt a great opportunity for pdv to become the ‘boss man ‘…..get out of the shadow of Plod….start making the tough calls….best thing for pdv….mark my words.
23 Sep 2010, 13:12 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-104:
yep that’s awesome if I want to know how many times rio ferdinand had his nappy changed last season.
23 Sep 2010, 13:20 pm
Grant
I actually agree with you. As you know I’m a big JS fan, but what if this is the end? We need to know what our options are. We also need some more experience in the depth positions, like flyhalf, hooker (esp. if Bissie isn’t fit), and the tour is a good way of introducing them in a less “Smit-like” environment.
But personally I’m no longer a PDV fan. Playing our players like he did, overplaying them in spite of knowing how much over the limit they already were was too much for me. That was a very unprofessional move, willing to sacrifice for a short term result that didn’t happen anyway.
I think he’ll take VIC with him, I just don’t see him having another plan at this stage of the game. Maybe he’ll surprise me but that’s ok. I’ll hapily eat my words
23 Sep 2010, 13:33 pm
@gunther(gunther)-105: sorry, brainfart
premiershiprugby.com
23 Sep 2010, 13:51 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-107: hey Banshee’s Toy, here’s something that might interest you.
Ethnic labelling still part of life in SA –
Swartz
2010/09/23
Khanyi Ndabeni
RACIAL or ethnic labelling is still a part of
everyday life in South Africa, Nelson
Mandela Metropolitan University vice-
chancellor Prof Derrick Swartz said in Port
Elizabeth last night.
This was despite the clearest commitment to
create a non-racial, democratic society as
envisaged in the Constitution, he said in a
public lecture at the Red Location Museum. It
was part of the museum ’s series of Heritage
Month debates.
Touching on South Africa’s racial history,
Swartz described multiculturalism as the
recognition, acceptance and promotion of
culturally diverse social norms in public
institutional life.
“The association of multiculturalism with
apartheid might seem odd, if not perverse
at first sight, given their starkly different
aims.
“Apartheid was based on the separation of
people. It was conceived as culturally and
socially incompatible for them to exist
within the same geographical and
institutional spaces. Multiculturalism is an
idea born of an expressed commitment to
enjoin cultural popularity within the same
spatial and institutional contexts. Their
political motives are quite different, ” Swartz
told the audience.
Since 1994, he said, the problem with group
identity was whether its purpose was to
represent individual life choices and beliefs
in all aspects of identity, and if the
autonomy of the individual was subsumed
under a group.
“This presents a significant problem if the
bases of the assumed group formation are
based on ‘racial’ grounds, seen as political
communities. Not only would this reinforce
what many consider to be a relic of racist
19th century evolutionary biology – the
idea that there actually exist different ‘races’
– but it would also politicise these groups
into political communities.
“This is best illustrated in our current use of
ethnic categories as legal categories of
social recognition. These categories have
been inherited from the apartheid era. They
are now used as not only markers of social
recognition, but as indicators of social
advantage or disadvantage.”
He said while there was ample evidence that
affirmative action and equity measures
taken in the past 16 years had hugely
shifted the demographic patterns of
employment and resource distribution to
those previously discriminated against,
most public and many private institutions
did not look to function along the same
racially defined lines as in the past.
“Yet theses advances cannot be disputed.
The use of these categories has also tended
to reinforce group identities that make
nation-building deeply problematic, ” Swartz
said.
24 Sep 2010, 08:01 am
let all the untransformed vile f.off to the mud island and the swamp they call holland. Klabekke is contributing f.all to this country. Oh wait some dude in america invented something and the afriforum memberr claims it
24 Sep 2010, 08:05 am
These NP Afriforum keo members spoeg everyday their racist volkstaat swine kaka
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