SARU confirms August 16th meeting

July 17, 2012
Posted by Morné

A meeting of the General Council of the South African Rugby Union (SARU) will take place in Cape Town on 16 August, SARU announced on Tuesday. The meeting replaces the postponed July 13 General Council.

The Council will discuss South Africa’s participants in the 2013 Vodacom Super Rugby competition.

Reports of proposed alternatives to be considered at the meeting were purely speculative, said Jurie Roux, CEO of SARU.

Media are reminded that the responsibility for deciding South Africa’s participants in the Vodacom Super Rugby competition rests with the General Council of SARU.

Each of the 14 provincial unions has two voting seats on the Council (one of whom must be the union president or his deputy). The SARU president, Mr Oregan Hoskins, also has a vote, making 29 votes in all.

Roux confirmed an Executive Council decision not to comment on any deliberations. “This is clearly an important issue of wide interest,” he said. “But the decision rests with the General Council and until they have made that decision it serves no purpose to become involved in speculation on any scenarios.”

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3 Comments

  1. biltongbek biltongbek says:
    July 17th, 2012 at 10:53 am Reply to this comment

    I thought there would have been an answer this week?

    This is truly turning into the laughing stock of international rugby, soon the Van der Merwe jokes will be a thing of the past.

    All new jokes will begin with “once upon a time SARU and the Kings…”

  2. bok_in_oz bryce_in_oz says:
    July 18th, 2012 at 9:35 am Reply to this comment

    Reply to biltongbek @ 10:53 am:

    And to think some want SARU to have more than a third of the SANZAR S15 money from Foxsports…

  3. biltongbek biltongbek says:
    July 18th, 2012 at 11:58 am Reply to this comment

    Reply to bryce_in_oz @ 9:35 am: Shocking, isn’t it?

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