{"id":121003,"date":"2016-04-20T09:10:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T07:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=121003"},"modified":"2016-04-20T09:10:46","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T07:10:46","slug":"anc-mp-wants-to-scrap-the-springbok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/121003\/anc-mp-wants-to-scrap-the-springbok\/","title":{"rendered":"ANC MP wants to scrap the Springbok emblem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An ANC member of parliament has called for the Springbok emblem to be removed from South Africa\u2019s rugby jersey.<\/p>\n<p>ANC member of parliament Strike Ralegoma called for the badge to be removed in a meeting of South Africa\u2019s parliamentary portfolio committee on sport and recreation on Tuesday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vodacomrugby.co.za\/springbok-emblem-under-threat\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vodacom Rugby<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor successful transformation, all national teams must play with a single emblem,\u201d said Ralegoma.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Protea is used by all other sports as the emblem, but there is Saru that will use the Springbok.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is important that we have a single logo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The emblem appears on the right-hand side of the Bok jersey in Tests while the Protea badge features on the left.<\/p>\n<p>Ralegoma called for faster transformation in South African rugby, warning the South African Rugby Union leadership there would be consequences if the game doesn\u2019t transform quicker.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More on sport in SA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/113860\/how-much-money-security-guards-make-in-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>This is what South Africa\u2019s best-paid rugby player earns<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/97945\/dont-lecture-us-about-transformation-sa-rugby-boss\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Don\u2019t lecture us about transformation: SA rugby boss<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/96499\/anc-wants-to-introduce-tax-on-rugby-cricket-tickets-in-sa\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>ANC wants to introduce tax on rugby, cricket tickets in SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ANC member of parliament has called for the Springbok emblem to be removed from South Africa\u2019s rugby jersey. ANC member of parliament Strike Ralegoma called for the badge to be removed in a meeting of South Africa\u2019s parliamentary portfolio committee on sport and recreation on Tuesday, Vodacom Rugby reported. \u201cFor successful transformation, all national<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":97389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9876],"tags":[25,10419],"class_list":["post-121003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-active","tag-springboks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121007,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121003\/revisions\/121007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}