According to this article from Sport24, the coach has to have a win percentage of at least 60% in the Currie Cup to be eligible. That pretty much excludes all foreigners with the exception of John Plumtree who is pretty much a South African through residence anyway.
There are a few other requirements . . .
"The new coach must boast an impressive CV, which includes a win percentage of at least 60% at Currie Cup level and higher.
The candidate must also have an impeccable record of working with the media and must understand SARU’s transformation goals with regards to the 2019 Rugby World Cup.
SARU’s goal is to have 50% black representation in the Springbok team by 2019.
SARU CEO Jurie Roux will drive the process of finding a new coach, with the final recommendation having to be approved by the general council when they next meet in late March."
My big problem is the 50% black representation by 2019. Don't get me wrong, I sincerely hope we are able to pick that many black players on merit but why should their representation be 50% when they only make up about 10% of the rugby-playing or rugby- following population?
If I saw a few rugby posts in black township schools then I'd think this might be feasible and I'd support it but the only black schools with rugby fields are still the township schools in the Eastern Cape.
South African rugby should be representative of the rugby-playing population. If SARU are able to increase the black rugby-playing population beyond the borders of the Eastern Cape then good for them but they seem to be making very little effort . . . they're just bowing to the politicians demands for quotas . . . and we know that some of those same politicians are small-minded and spiteful racists who have a sinister agenda to destroy South African rugby.
