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SOWETO Rugby Club players received a thorough beating from their opponents in the dying minutes of the game they were winning on Saturday

About half a dozen of the Soweto club's players spent yesterday nursing bruises and getting medical help for their injuries after Edenvale Panthers Rugby Club turned the game into a kick-boxing match with players, support staff, fans and parents descending on the field and attacking the "******s".

Soweto Rugby Club is at the top of the Gauteng league with an unbeaten record. The Panthers are second, having only lost to the Soweto team.

The Soweto outfit was winning by 29 points to seven with less than 10 minutes left on the clock when all hell broke loose.

The first player to be attacked was Sikelela Nazo.

"I tackled their player to force him to score a try on the side instead of under the poles. When I got up, one of his teammates ran over to me and pushed me.

"He called me a ******.

"As I was concentrated on him, another one came from the side and punched me on the jaw and floored me. I do not remember what happened next," he said.

Nazo, whose front teeth were knocked loose, could hardly speak when Sowetan interviewed him yesterday outside Edenvale Hospital in the East Rand where he was being treated.

His coach, Themba Masina, got a black eye as he tried to rescue his players.

Now the Soweto club's secretary-general, Zola Ntlokomu, says the team will sue. "We will sue the club, and the Gauteng Lions Rugby Union. This is not the first time an incident like this happened, and the Lions union is not doing anything to prevent it.

"In 2008, we formed the Lions union because we were unhappy that the Johannesburg Police Rugby Club assaulted our players. The manager and supporters of the Titans Rugby Club attacked and beat up our player. The game had to be abandoned. We were winning by 55 points to 12."

Lions Rugby Union manager Peter Visser confirmed the incident but said he could not comment as he was still to receive a report from both teams and referees.

He said the Anti-Racism Committee and the Competition Committee were looking at previous incidents and would take up this case.

"This is not good for the image of rugby. No matter what club, big or small, racism will not be tolerated," said Visser.

Edenvale police confirmed that a case of assault was opened yesterday.
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Black men thrashing white men at a game of Rugby in South Africa.
Nooooooooooo.It can never happen.
 
Unfscking acceptable...

These little bastards need to have their asses handed to them. You do not turn a match like this into a brawl simply because you are losing to a "black" team...

I will admit, that I am now intrigued by the Soweto Rugby Club and will be doing a bit more digging and try my best to actually get to see a game. I am heartened by the fact that the top club in that league is the Soweto Rugby Club... it does show some hints of the sport bridging the racial divide that unfortunately exists.
 
DrYes said:
Black men thrashing white men at a game of Rugby in South Africa.
Nooooooooooo.It can never happen.
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It's been happening the whole season. :p

Soweto Rugby Club is at the top of the Gauteng league with an unbeaten record. The Panthers are second, having only lost to the Soweto team
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Watch Julius Malema capitalize on this. Sometimes I think white people suck at controlling their emotions :D. Why do some of the people that hate Malema give him ammunition. First it was that dumb Eastern Cape white guy who shot the black guy. The reason for the incident doesn't matter, what matters is how it looks to people. Seriously, people must start mastering the art of emotional intelligence. Malema has learned to control his emotions after the BBC jurnalist incident.
 
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Suspend the Panthers from the league indefinitely.. Only viable solution IMHO...
 
You guys should watch school rugby more often. Usually the fights don't start because of race. Some schools are just known to be ill disciplined, and usually the referee will just turn a blind eye. I also remember playing a club rugby match against Edenvale, also turned into a massive punch up and game got called off after the ref was assaulted by Edenvale supporters. This wasn't big in the news probably because it was 2 "white" sides. Im so sick of this race rubbish.
 
Sad day for SA Rugby.... again. Even sadder is that this is not an isolated event.

In the early 80's I was involved in quite a few games where the match was called off due to fighting. We were a young Army side with a few "PF's" in the team and the locals knew that they could never beat us on the scoreboard and would then try and beat us on the field. We never instigated any foul play (the RSM was our coach and the Commandant was our manager) but we refused to be bullied. This led to some epic but disgraceful battles!!!

Playing in the 90's became a political minefield as there was invariably always some arsehole (on either side) who would make some pathetic utterance that would spark turmoil. I stopped playing due to this. (I played in a fully multi-racial team.)
 
seanyp00h said:
You guys should watch school rugby more often. Usually the fights don't start because of race. Some schools are just known to be ill disciplined, and usually the referee will just turn a blind eye. I also remember playing a club rugby match against Edenvale, also turned into a massive punch up and game got called off after the ref was assaulted by Edenvale supporters. This wasn't big in the news probably because it was 2 "white" sides. Im so sick of this race rubbish.
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This is also true.
 
DrYes said:
Black men thrashing white men at a game of Rugby in South Africa.
Nooooooooooo.It can never happen.
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Ironically, when I was a youngster, we got trashed by an all white team from Westville in SOCCER....Only difference to this is that we accepted that they were just better as they even won the league that season by a country mile.
 
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Typical 'kommin' mentality.

If you beat me on the field I'll beat you up .
 
Soweto rugby team are just gonna have to learn Scottish marcial arts. You start out by yelling "fook you" to your opponent as you punch him in the head, which is then usually followed by kicking him while he's down.
 
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