Saru hopes for new dawn
1 Nov 2012
The South African Rugby Union says it has committed to a transformation plan that will for once properly measure its success and failure on this issue.
The governing body held a two-day transformation indaba in Johannesburg, which concluded with Saru president Oregan Hoskins and representatives of each of the 14 member unions signing a declaration.
‘We have had visions and charters in the past, with good intentions, and progress has been made,’ Hoskins said. ‘But what distinguishes this one is the commitment to properly measure ourselves on our progress.’
The key performance areas will be access, skill and capability development, demographics, performance, and alignment to national policy and governance.
No details of the plan have been released yet (they will first discuss an implementation plan), but Hoskins explained that they would strive to go beyond previously unsuccessful attempts at transformation.
‘As the sports minister [Fikile Mbalula] said, transformation is not about the “vulgar” simplification of numbers in the Springbok team,’ Hoskins said. ‘It is about a whole range of opportunities being created in a number of different areas to continue to transform rugby at all levels and in all corners of our activity.’
Saru chief executive Jurie Roux said the indaba and declaration were part of an extensive strategy to finalise the transformation implementation plan. He also said it confirmed that Saru would adopt deliberate transformation initiatives in order to ensure equal opportunities existed for all South Africans.
‘We have had a group working on this process for several months,’ Roux said. ‘In April we presented the outline to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Sport and since then we have workshopped the draft plan with provinces on an individual basis.
‘This indaba is the culmination of that process and from this we will finalise the implementation plan.’
Saru hopes the strategic transformation plan will increase the number of blacks involved at all levels of the game and ensure rugby was accessible to all who wished to participate. There will also be a focus on improving skills and performance in identified coaches, referees, administrators and players. It stressed that in accordance with transformation plan, Saru members would focus on quality and merit to deliver world-class performances on the field of play.
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1 Nov 2012, 21:42 pm
“Dontchalurvit”??
A special thread for our Dawn….. Comprising of, incredibly subtle questioning from Sherlock Sheriff, some rants from ET an nice little extract from The Guardian (circa 2007)and some welcome interventions from Katman and Gunther to lighten this dark place!!
1 Nov 2012, 21:43 pm
blah blah farken farken banshee wannabee impi booom boom boom homoerotic bully
1 Nov 2012, 21:50 pm
You are transformed by the= 2nd inhalation of Zol is exhaled. Oh the feeling.
Stand back road to Damascus,
1 Nov 2012, 22:10 pm
@KeurboomPark-302: @ryecatcher-303: You both have some serious issues to work through. I do understand though. Enjoy the healing process.
1 Nov 2012, 23:49 pm
@Finfan-304: Hey Finfan.Mysurrealismusrrealism not working???
2 Nov 2012, 00:02 am
@ryecatcher-305: It does. It depends on the quality and not the quantity. Myimpressionismism is the best though.
2 Nov 2012, 03:13 am
@Heavens Game:
How do we measure the success of transformation?… Firstly by how much additional support it gains from South Africans who currently dont support the Springboks. Secondly, by how well the team performs (transformation could potentially lead to short term poor performances if executed incorrectly).. And Thirdly, by how much it is embraced by white South Africans… No one is saying that transformation in rugby will finish with full marks by those standards, but at least those are the standards (in my view).
There are issues in South Africa bigger than rugby boet.. Dont underestimate how far a national sports team can go to help bring people together. A common team to support can help unite people where there is currently tension.
South Africa is changing whether you like it or not. Embrace change boet. You either have equality in South Africa along with a team which all race groups can support or you have social tension, crime and resentment.
2 Nov 2012, 04:35 am
@Kaizan-307:
Oh what BS, so putting a few more different coloured faces in the Bok line up is gonna stop social tension, crime and resentment. faaak dude go smoke the other tweet!
2 Nov 2012, 06:50 am
A 2 day conference with all SARU Presidents CEO’s Hoskins & Roux with Minister of Sport and countless others and Hoskins states “no details of the plan have been made yet”.
This is so typical of an organisation in denial believing their own releases.
The measurement of transformation is simple.
There is a scorecard for SARU 10 years ago 5 years ago and between us we could do one now in 2012.
Those are details that should be released. Otherwise get the HSRC to do it.
2 Nov 2012, 07:30 am
@Heavens Game-295:
The best way to measure it, would be for all those involved to start viewing rugby players as just that…. When an all black or all white team runs out, the fans are in no doubt that is the best XV players available for that particular team. Black people do not cheer any louder if a try is scored Habana, JJP, Bismarck or Jacque Fourie. They’re all springboks.
When unions put structures and facilities in place so that township youngsters that enjoy the game, who cannot afford to go to former model C and private schools, will have better access to the tools that might help them attain provincial colours. When they initiate a nutritional programme for malnourished black kids who might not otherwise grow to be as big as their privilaged black and white counterparts. When ex boks and provincial players frequent township providing some coaching assistance to these youngsters. When the provincial team culture is introduced to these youngsters at a young age, so that they are under no illusions should they one day go on the make the senior team.
When provincial coaches embrace the smaller more skillful players and actually trust them to deliver… Ridding them of the bigger is better mentality.
Perhaps then will the number of black players in SR and CC increase, thus giving the national coach a greater pool to choose from.
2 Nov 2012, 08:08 am
oocraven noo luyt nabanye ke zange basifuna nathi singamalungisa gqithi ngoba kaloku kwa olaphawu lwesi tsibabhokwe lupha alimfuni umntu womthonyama ngakumbi lo angathobelanga uba sisicaka sabo abo . saphuma kubo thina
2 Nov 2012, 08:42 am
@Kaizan-307: Measuring the “success of Transformation”…. Buzzer.
No, how do you measure “Transformation” not an obfuscation into woolly cotton wool semantic dishonesty?
What measures will be used for “Transformation” in order for SARU to determine failure or success?
You see, when fuzzy faux liberal bullshitt is exposed, the resultant frustration generally does end up with comments such as “South Africa is changing whether you like it or not. Embrace change boet”….
Your comment implies that you reckon South Africa is “changing”…Buzzer… Newsflash… South Africa has changed and always will – for better or worse… Your comment implies that you embrace “change”? WHat change? Transformation? How the fark can you when you have no idea what it means?
Farken Lily Liberal Nimbys… The best measure for Transformation of SA Rugby or SA is how many of these can be lined up against a wall and then shot…
2 Nov 2012, 08:50 am
@Heavens Game-312:
Are you still at it.
2 Nov 2012, 11:06 am
@Heavens Game
Oh excuse me, I had no idea you were a fool. Had I known, I would not have engaged you in the first place.
As you were.
2 Nov 2012, 13:21 pm
I have a question about transformation. It is racism and sexism, all the other Rugby playing nations can scrape together woman’s rugby teams. We are due to play in the 2016 Olympics with a womans 7′s team.I have not seen anybody trying to get the schools to allow girls to play 7′s rugby. SARU are really missing the boat or they just don’t care.
A medal at the olympics is a medal, no matter who wins it.
2 Nov 2012, 17:53 pm
Personally, I have a huge problem with women playing rugby…
And other contact sports like boxing, soccer, etc.
2 Nov 2012, 18:31 pm
@BrumbiesBoy-316:
Why?
I find women soccer quite enjoyable to watch- there are less interruptions as women players do not fall around as often as men, the players are quite skillful, athletic and the game has usually quite a nice flow to it. You also hardly ever find the ego’s and showboating that are so common in top level male soccer. I have never watched women 7′s rugby but reckon it might be quite fun to watch as well.
2 Nov 2012, 19:02 pm
@BrumbiesBoy-316: why?
2 Nov 2012, 19:03 pm
@BrumbiesBoy-316:
S e x?
3 Nov 2012, 10:13 am
@Robzim-317: @SodaJoe-318: Call me old-fashioned if you like but it’s all to do with the femininity of women and being “the fairer ***,” etc and I just don’t appreciate watching them beating or tackling the cr*p out of each other.
Sorry for the pun but “it’s just not cricket”!
@David-319: Nice try but that’s a pastime not “sport”!
3 Nov 2012, 10:44 am
@Finfan-306: Was pissed last night.Release of tension.Apologies all.
3 Nov 2012, 11:02 am
@ryecatcher-321: You mean the night before?
No problem, you’re not the first & definitely not the last to touch the keyboard at the wrong time!
3 Nov 2012, 11:09 am
@BrumbiesBoy-322: Yes indeed.The night before.Thanks.Nevertheless one does feel a sense of dismay over what is said and how it is said.
4 Nov 2012, 00:06 am
Well, this is good news and, if honest and genuine, should be applauded and embraced.
For far too long in South African rugby, ‘transformation’ has been – and is right now – just what the Minsiter says…the vulgar simplification of numbers in the Springbok team.
I have long argued that we’ll only reap the benefits when true transformation – creating equal (as equal as can be in a fundamentally unequal world) opportunities at grassroots level and from thereon in – and then it’s over to merit.
The benefits, of course, are fielding the best possible team, based on merit alone and without giving a fig for social engineering.
Finally, I guess we all appreicate that the flip side of true transformation is selecting the best match day 22 and starting 15 and throwing full support behind the selected squad – even if that squad, and there’s only a miniscule chance of this ever being the case, all happen to have lily white skins or, for that matter, black skins.
Now that’s true transformation.
Over to you, Oregan.
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