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Court bid to stop Springboks playing at Rugby World Cup fails
ESPN Staff
September 2, 2015
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A bid to prevent the Springboks from travelling to England to play at the Rugby World Cup has failed after it was abandoned in the Pretoria High Court on Wednesday.

The case had been brought by the obscure Agency for New Agenda political party, who wanted the players due to represent South Africa to have their passports taken away due to a lack of "transformation in South African rugby".

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However, judge Ntendeya Mavundla stood the matter down for the parties to have a discussion about transformation in rugby.

Mavundla agreed with ANA president, Edward Mokhoanatse, that the speed of change within rugby in South Africa had been "grindingly slow" but said the number of white players in Heyneke Meyer's 31-man did not constitute an "inconsistency with the Constitution" as had been claimed.

The Springboks will now leave South Africa on Sep. 11 as planned, before opening their campaign against Japan in Brighton eight days later.

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