SOUTH Africa’s new rugby boss, Silas Nkanunu, won the Herald Mayor’s Port Elizabeth Citizen of the Year award at a glittering banquet at the Feather Market Centre in PE on Saturday night. The 65-year-old attorney, who replaced controversial Louis Luyt as president of the South African Rugby Football Union (Sarfu) last year, is the 10th recipient of the award. The citation read out to guests at the function said Nkanunu had taken over rugby’s hot seat at a sensitive and complicated time. “Professionalism had turned the game into a flourishing, big-money industry at top level. But Sarfu was embroiled in controversy, and seemed to have lost sight of rugby’s massive potential in racial bridge- building” the citiation said.