Fans are desperate to return but authorities in the sector have shown little appetite to tackle difficult questions
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/ 31 January 2012
South African Rugby Union deputy president Mark Alexander says the national rugby body will lobby for 16 teams to be introduced into Super Rugby.
Saru) will be holding elections on Friday. The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> caught up with Mark Alexander, who will be challenging for the top spot.
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/ 12 February 2010
Oregan Hoskins, president of the South African Rugby Union (Saru), will be opposed by his deputy Mark Alexander at the Saru elections next month.
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/ 18 November 2008
The Springbok emblem can still be utilised by the South African Rugby Union, but the King Protea as national emblem will be worn on the jersey.
It was straight from the Jonas Savimbi School of daylight robbery. With the ballot papers counted and the unrigged result declared, cue dummy-spitting, foul-crying toy tosser. Mike Stofile’s ”there is no place for blacks in South African rugby” is the most predictable post-South African Rugby Union (Saru) presidential election utterance since unification.
In the aftermath of his failure to become the president of the South African Rugby Union (Saru), Mike Stofile said the elections at the annual general meeting held on Friday proved there was no place for black people in South African rugby. Stofile, the former deputy president of Saru, was the only candidate opposing Oregan Hoskins for the top post.
Oregan Hoskins was re-elected on Friday to a further two-year term as president of the South African Rugby Union (Saru), narrowly beating his deputy, Mike Stofile, at Saru’s annual general meeting. Saru did not issue an official confirmation of the voting tally, but it is understood that the closeness of the vote saw auditors call for a recount.