A HIGH COURT sitting in Pretoria has today seen the application to prevent South Africa competing in the Rugby World Cup dropped.
Last week, the Agency for New Agenda (ANA) party gained notoriety for submitting the application to bar the Springboks from the tournament on the grounds they had failed to racially integrate black players into the setup.
Today, judge Ntendeya Mavundla stated that “transformation is grinding very slowly” after hearing that nine of the men in head coach Heyneke Meyer’s national squad of 31 were black.
Mavundla adjourned the hearing in North Gauteng of the country’s administrative capital. He returned this afternoon, as SA Rugby Mag report, to report that the ANA had stood the application down while asking all involved parties to draw up a pathway to aid the ‘transformation’ of rugby in South Africa.
Meyer’s Springbok squad will now go ahead with their travel plans and are due to fly to England on 11 September ahead of their opening game against Japan on 19 September.
Originally published at 3.33pm
