A HIGH COURT sitting in Pretoria has today seen the application to prevent South Africa competing in the Rugby World Cup dropped.<\/p>\n
Last week, the Agency for New Agenda (ANA) party gained notoriety for submitting the application to bar the Springboks from the tournament on the grounds they had failed to racially integrate black players into the setup.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Today, judge\u00a0Ntendeya Mavundla stated that \u201ctransformation is grinding very slowly\u201d after hearing that nine of the men in head coach Heyneke Meyer\u2019s national squad of 31 were black.<\/p>\n
Mavundla adjourned the hearing in North Gauteng of the country\u2019s administrative capital. He returned this afternoon, as SA Rugby Mag report, to report that the ANA had stood the application down while asking all involved parties to draw up a pathway to aid the \u2018transformation\u2019 of rugby in South Africa.<\/p>\n
Meyer\u2019s Springbok squad will now go ahead with their travel plans and are due to fly to England on 11 September ahead of their opening game against Japan on 19 September.<\/p>\n
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