Sarfu boss denies media reports

Cape Town – The president of the South African Rugby Union (Sarfu), Brian van Rooyen, has shot down media reports that former Springbok coach Andre Markgraaff is the new convenor of the national selection panel.

“I don’t know where these reports emanate from. But I want to say that Markgraaff is the interim convenor of the national selectors,” he said after yesterday’s executive committee meeting.

It was the first meeting to be chaired by Van Rooyen after his election in December.

“I am also wandering about reports which say that Markgraaff is the national coaching director. The post will first have to be advertised.”

Sarfu confirmed the appointment of Allister Coetzee alongside Markgraaff as interim national selectors.

Van Rooyen added that the meeting did not discuss the allegations of financial irregularities that had surfaced following the recent suspensions of Sarfu’s financial manager Ivor Bloom and fellow official Pieter Cloete. The allegations stemmed from a source – yet to be named by Sarfu, that reported the payment for a car brought for the ousted president of Sarfu, Silas Nkanunu.

An investigation by auditors at SA Rugby is in progress and Van Rooyen said that a company has been asked to collect the car from Nkanunu.

“We have established that Sarfu paid for the car, which is therefore the property of Sarfu.” – Sapa

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