Andy Royle, St Andrew’s College director of rugby and chairman of the Albany Rugby Union, believes the Eastern Province Rugby Union must prioritise local schoolboy scouting and the reestablishment of an academy system.
Kings players, coaches and staff are reportedly still awaiting their salaries for April – 10 days after payments were meant to go through.
Kings players are still waiting on their April salaries after a failure to process the money in time for the standard payment on the 25th of the month.
A local player has spoken out about the impact of SA Rugby’s planned pay cuts which is scheduled to run until December.
The Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth has reportedly been identified as an isolation site to treat Covid-19 patients.
SA Rugby has reportedly compiled and presented a radically-changed calendar for the 2020 season, with the hope of returning to on-field action on 5 June.
Local players could lose just under half of their salaries to help stabilise SA Rugby and the local unions’ finances during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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SA Rugby president Mark Alexander says he is impressed by the strides made on the transformation front in the local game.
The South African rugby industry has come together to navigate the retention of teams and jobs in the face of the threat to the business posed by the global Coronavirus pandemic.
