Oregan Hoskins - Overview of Policies

Overview of Policies

He was appointed to this position in 2006. Noted events that have occurred during his tenure as President include South Africa victory at the 2007 Rugby World Cup. One of Hoskins' key policies has been an increase in the rate of racial integration of South African blacks into the South African National team and the Super Rugby competition.

Soon after being appointed as President of SARU, he commented that there was an anti-South African bias in rugby.

Hoskins was backed by the "Big Five" franchises to be President of SARU and to oppose Brian van Rooyen, with the express mandate to keep the Southern Spears out of the Super 14. Under Hoskins SA Rugby lost multiple High Court applications and were castigated by Judge Dennis Davis who ruled in favour of the Southern Spears, declaring SA Rugby behaved unethically and unlawfully and that the Spears had a legal and binding agreement to play Super 14 rugby. SA Rugby has subsequently spent R27.1m in excluding the Southern Spears franchise from the Eastern Cape from Super Rugby competition.

Hoskins specifically accused Australian and New Zealand referees saying "Australia and New Zealand need to look at their referees when it comes to games involving South Africa. There is a genuine bias against South African teams."

Among the policies that Hoskins has promoted and encouraged is the development of a South African Haka based on some kind of traditional Zulu or Xhosa war dance. This, Hoskins noted, would help more of the South African population to identify directly with the sport.