Saru president Oregan Hoskins and CEO Jurie Roux — PICTURE: GALLO IMAGES The South African Rugby Union (Saru) is an organisation that has a long history of crisis management, and the state of paralysis currently gripping it is sadly not unprecedented.CEO Jurie Roux is under a cloud for alleged financial transgressions from his time as chairman of the Maties Rugby Club from 2002 to 2010, while president Oregan Hoskins is facing an internal putsch from ambitious backbenchers.This has been well documented, so I’m not going to wade deeply into what has happened. What rugby, and Saru in particular, needs to think about is: what is going to happen in the coming weeks?Rugby is crying out for strong leadership. It’s begging for a revolution. If you sat around a Saru general council meeting and threw a stone in the air, you’d be unlikely to hit a leader you’d want to go into battle with.One of the quirks of SA Rugby that most people forget, or don’t understand, is that Saru is not just a few...
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