SARU in trouble again over new Super 14 team

The ANC and the Portfolio Committee on Sport and Recreation has condemned the South African Rugby Union’s handling of next season’s Super 14 competition. Committee chairperson Butana Khompela says the unilateral decisions taken by the Presidents' Council of Saru to abandon the agreed relegation system is an about-turn on agreements reached between Saru, the government and the Portfolio Committee during 2005 on the participation of the Southern Spears in the Super 14 from 2007. Khompela has demanded reasons for Saru’s decisions and says no political argument can be made as to why the South-Eastern Cape should not be allowed to participate in the competition.