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It was established in 1992 as the South African Rugby Football Union, from the merger of the <a href="/wiki/South_African_Rugby_Board" title="South African Rugby Board">South African Rugby Board</a> and the non-racial <a href="/wiki/South_African_Rugby_Union_(SACOS)" title="South African Rugby Union (SACOS)">South African Rugby Union (SACOS)</a>, and took up its current name in 2005. </p><p>SARU organises several national teams, most notably the senior national side, the <i><a href="/wiki/South_Africa_national_rugby_union_team" title="South Africa national rugby union team">Springboks</a></i>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> SARU consists of 14 regional associations, each of which sends its own team to the Currie Cup, the oldest and most important league title in South Africa. In addition, the SuperSport Rugby Challenge takes place annually. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SAunions.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/SAunions.png/220px-SAunions.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="183" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/SAunions.png/330px-SAunions.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/SAunions.png/440px-SAunions.png 2x" data-file-width="982" data-file-height="817" /></a><figcaption>Map of the provincial rugby unions within South Africa</figcaption></figure> <p>In addition to the actual national team, the SARU also puts together other teams. The Junior Springboks are the U-20 national team and take part in the Rugby Championship and the World Championships. There are also the Blitzboks, the national team for sevens rugby. Children and young people are introduced to rugby at school and then, depending on their interest and talent, training begins. The most talented players at school level are brought together every year after Craven Week (named after Danie Craven ) in the SA Schools team. Each South African university has its own rugby team, which can take part in the Varsity Cup and the Varsity Shield. </p><p>The national championship is superseded by the international championship United Rugby Championship, which is played together with teams from Ireland and Wales, as well as two franchises each from Italy and Scotland. South Africa is represented by four franchises, which are managed by the SARU: the Bulls from Pretoria, the Lions from Johannesburg, the Sharks from Durban and the Stormers from Cape Town. Since the seasons overlap only slightly, many players are used in both professional leagues. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=South_African_Rugby_Union&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/South_African_Rugby_Board" title="South African Rugby Board">South African Rugby Board</a> was the <a href="/wiki/Rugby_union" title="Rugby union">rugby union</a> governing body of <a href="/wiki/White_South_African" class="mw-redirect" title="White South African">white South Africans</a> between 1889 and 1992. The governing of white and coloured <a href="/wiki/Rugby_union" title="Rugby union">rugby union</a> was handled separately during <a href="/wiki/South_Africa_under_Apartheid" class="mw-redirect" title="South Africa under Apartheid">South Africa under Apartheid</a>. In 1992 the non-racial South African Rugby Union and the South African Rugby Board were merged to form the South African Rugby Football Union. The unified body changed its name in 2005 to the current South African Rugby Union.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Kamp_Staaldraad">Kamp Staaldraad</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=South_African_Rugby_Union&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Kamp Staaldraad"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The debacle of the <a href="/wiki/2003_Rugby_Union_World_Cup" class="mw-redirect" title="2003 Rugby Union World Cup">2003 World Cup</a> saw the Springboks exit in the quarterfinals. Further, SARU experienced the scandal of <a href="/wiki/Kamp_Staaldraad" title="Kamp Staaldraad">Kamp Staaldraad</a>, the training camp run by then-Boks coach <a href="/wiki/Rudolf_Straeuli" title="Rudolf Straeuli">Rudolf Straeuli</a>. Reportedly, "naked players were crammed into foxholes and doused repeatedly with ice-cold water while the English national anthem and New Zealand's haka were played over and over again... [and] were also forced into a freezing lake in the early hours of the morning to pump up rugby balls under water and... when some players tried to get out they were ordered back into the water at gunpoint."<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Straeuli resigned, as did Rian Oberholzer, the managing director of South Africa Rugby (Pty) Ltd, the commercial arm of SARFU. Soon afterwards, SARFU president Silas Nkununu, facing a strong reelection challenge, withdrew from consideration for election.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="van_Rooyen">van Rooyen</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=South_African_Rugby_Union&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: van Rooyen"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Brian van Rooyen was elected president of SARU in 2004. He soon became a highly polarising figure in South African sport, with detractors accusing him of financial shenanigans, favouritism, and general mismanagement.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> His management style was also widely perceived as autocratic. One of the major gripes against the Van Rooyen administration was the allocation of venues for the Springboks home test matches. The KwaZulu-Natal Union and the Free State Union did not receive a Tri Nations Test in 2005 or 2006. Both unions, vocal opponents of Van Rooyen, accused him of punishing them for their opposition.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="SANZAR">SANZAR</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=South_African_Rugby_Union&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: SANZAR"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>However, the biggest bone of contention surrounded the expansion of the <a href="/wiki/Super_Rugby" title="Super Rugby">Super Rugby</a> competition. <a href="/wiki/SANZAAR" title="SANZAAR">SANZAR</a>, a consortium of the South African, Australian, and New Zealand governing bodies, expanded their Super 12 competition to 14 teams, a change that took effect in 2006. South Africa was entitled to add one franchise to the four from the Super 12 era. In a controversial move, the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Spears" title="Southern Spears">Southern Spears</a> franchise was assured a place in the 2007 and 2008 competitions, with an increasingly unpopular promotion/relegation system established to keep the total of South African Super 14 teams at its allotted five. Van Rooyen was widely viewed as being responsible for this arrangement, which was generally opposed by the existing Super 12/14 sides. The South African government attempted to step in to address perceived problems within Van Rooyen's administration, but he survived two years of attempts to oust him. Finally, at the February 2006 SARU General Meeting, Van Rooyen was voted out.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Oregan Hoskins, who promised a more decentralised management style, was voted in. After the election, it was alleged by Free State Rugby Union president Harold Verster that Van Rooyen had offered a bribe of <a href="/wiki/South_African_rand" title="South African rand">ZAR</a> 3 million (US$485,000) plus a Springboks test against <a href="/wiki/France_national_rugby_union_team" title="France national rugby union team">France</a> to the Free State union in exchange for the union changing its vote in the presidential election in his favour.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hoskins announced that a planned investigation into Van Rooyen's administration would go forward.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In June 2006 Van Rooyen was banned from serving in any capacity on the general council or committees of the South African Rugby Union.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As for the Spears issue, the SARU Presidents' Council issued a recommendation on 24 March 2006 that SA Rugby revisit the decision to admit the Spears. On 19 April 2006, the decision to admit the Spears was officially overturned by SARU.<sup id="cite_ref-spears_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-spears-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-spearstwo_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-spearstwo-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Israel">Israel</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=South_African_Rugby_Union&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Israel"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>South African Rugby Union disinvited the <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israeli</a> team the <a href="/wiki/Tel_Aviv_Heat" title="Tel Aviv Heat">Tel Aviv Heat</a> from an international competition in South Africa in February 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> South Africa Rugby’s CEO said that after listening to "the opinions of important stakeholder groups," it had decided to disinvite Tel Aviv "to avoid the likelihood of the competition becoming a source of division, notwithstanding the fact that Israel is a full member of World Rugby."<sup id="cite_ref-auto_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Tel Aviv Heat protested the decision, South African Friends of Israel said the South Africa Rugby Union "bent the knee to appease political extremists in South Africa who threatened to harm and incite violence should an Israeli team participate in the sport," and the <a href="/wiki/South_African_Zionist_Federation" title="South African Zionist Federation">South African Zionist Federation</a> called the decision "an attack on our sportsmen and women in South Africa."<sup id="cite_ref-auto_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The San Clemente Rhinos, which replaced Tel Aviv, issued a statement condemning discrimination saying the team "stands together with Tel Aviv Heat players and coaches."<sup id="cite_ref-auto_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=South_African_Rugby_Union&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/South_African_Rugby_Football_Federation" title="South African Rugby Football Federation">South African Rugby Football Federation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Africa_national_rugby_union_team" title="South Africa national rugby union team">South Africa national rugby union team</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Africa_national_rugby_sevens_team" title="South Africa national rugby sevens team">South Africa national rugby sevens team</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Africa_women%27s_national_rugby_union_team" title="South Africa women's national rugby union team">South Africa women's national rugby union team</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Africa_women%27s_national_rugby_sevens_team" title="South Africa women's national rugby sevens team">South Africa women's national rugby sevens team</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Currie_Cup" title="Currie Cup">Currie Cup</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/AFL_South_Africa" title="AFL South Africa">Australian rules football</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bowls_South_Africa" title="Bowls South Africa">Bowls</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Horseracing_Authority" title="National Horseracing Authority">Horse racing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mind_Sports_South_Africa" title="Mind Sports South Africa">Mind sports</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_African_Rugby_League" title="South African Rugby League">Rugby league</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soaring_Society_of_South_Africa" title="Soaring Society of South Africa">Soaring</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#00774b; color:white;;width:1%">Miscellaneous</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a 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Rugby Union">Eswatini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghana_Rugby_Association" title="Ghana Rugby Association">Ghana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/F%C3%A9d%C3%A9ration_Ivoirienne_de_Rugby" class="mw-redirect" title="Fédération Ivoirienne de Rugby">Ivory Coast</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenya_Rugby_Football_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="Kenya Rugby Football Union">Kenya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federation_of_Lesotho_Rugby" title="Federation of Lesotho Rugby">Lesotho</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madagascan_Rugby_Federation" title="Madagascan Rugby Federation">Madagascar</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mali_Rugby_Federation" title="Mali Rugby Federation">Mali</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mauritius_Rugby_Union" title="Mauritius Rugby Union">Mauritius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Moroccan_Rugby_Federation" title="Royal Moroccan Rugby Federation">Morocco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Namibia_Rugby_Union" title="Namibia Rugby Union">Namibia</a></li> <li><a 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title="Rugby Canada">Canada</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cayman_Rugby_Union&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cayman Rugby Union (page does not exist)">Cayman Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guyana_Rugby_Football_Union&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Guyana Rugby Football Union (page does not exist)">Guyana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Rugby_Football_Union" title="Jamaica Rugby Football Union">Jamaica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mexican_Rugby_Federation" title="Mexican Rugby Federation">Mexico</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/St._Lucia_Rugby_Football_Union" title="St. Lucia Rugby Football Union">St. Lucia</a></i></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/St._Vincent_and_the_Grenadines_Rugby_Union" title="St. Vincent and the Grenadines Rugby Union">St. Vincent & the Grenadines</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Trinidad_and_Tobago_Rugby_Football_Union" title="Trinidad and Tobago Rugby Football 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