While the court bid is unlikely to succeed, it has touched a raw nerve in the “Rainbow Nation”, where rugby has struggled to shed its reputation as a bastion of white privilege. His complaint, which is aimed at Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula and the South African Rugby Union (SARU), is scheduled for a hearing at the high court in Pretoria on Wednesday. “We are asking the court to stop them from going and order them to surrender their passports,” Mokhoanatse told reporters. Its leader, Edward Mokhoanatse, said the national rugby team was “built on racially-exclusionary and racially-biased criteria”, pointing out that only nine of its 31 players are black. The startling move was confirmed on Monday by the Agency for a New Agenda (ANA), a virtually unknown group that says it broke off from the ruling African National Congress (ANC).
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