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Article: De Villiers faces a mammoth challenge.(Sports)
- Article from:
- Pretoria News (South Africa)
- Article date:
- January 11, 2008
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So much for starting 2008 at a canter - the appointment of Peter de Villiers as Springbok coach certainly took care of that. Rugby dominates the headlines albeit that we are still in the middle of summer.
Much has been made of the fact that De Villiers is the first black Springbok coach.
His colour, to me, is irrelevant, as it is to many other rugby supporters, I believe. Don't worry I haven't lost my marbles or turned my back on transformation or turned into a "coconut" overnight. Just because De Villiers is a non-white it in no way means that the faces in the Bok team will now change and the demographic make-up of the team will shift.
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