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<blockquote data-quote="saulan" data-source="post: 818219" data-attributes="member: 60236"><p>Yep, private schools will generally have the children of successfuly South Africans, in business and politics. In general it is not very diverse, but they do look for talented rugby players and give them full scholarships (generally get found through U13 Craven Week, can't remember it's real name). The former model c's are a lot more mixed, my school was probably about 50% white and our rugby teams were really diverse, my A team throughout the years at school generally had 5 white players. These schools also offer scholarships to boys for sports, for example Notshe was at our school on a full school and hostel bursary. It is a mixed bag though, I remember playing Dale at a rugby festival and their team probably had about 2 players out of 23 that were black (who I think were both locks), and then there will be others where out of 15 there are 10 to 12 white players.</p><p></p><p>Then you get the government funded only schools, who don't have enough funds to get the right number of teachers in the class and as I said can teach up to 50 students in a class if not more. There will generally be no white students at these schools, and the best chance the rugby players at those schools would have to get noticed in rugby is to play for a local club team and hope that they get noticed by a bigger school or somehow make it into a provincial representative team.</p><p></p><p>I think what Saru has done in the past is hold rugby clinics in the areas of these government schools and tried to support some schools and clubs, but whatever they have done has really not been effective enough.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="saulan, post: 818219, member: 60236"] Yep, private schools will generally have the children of successfuly South Africans, in business and politics. In general it is not very diverse, but they do look for talented rugby players and give them full scholarships (generally get found through U13 Craven Week, can't remember it's real name). The former model c's are a lot more mixed, my school was probably about 50% white and our rugby teams were really diverse, my A team throughout the years at school generally had 5 white players. These schools also offer scholarships to boys for sports, for example Notshe was at our school on a full school and hostel bursary. It is a mixed bag though, I remember playing Dale at a rugby festival and their team probably had about 2 players out of 23 that were black (who I think were both locks), and then there will be others where out of 15 there are 10 to 12 white players. Then you get the government funded only schools, who don't have enough funds to get the right number of teachers in the class and as I said can teach up to 50 students in a class if not more. There will generally be no white students at these schools, and the best chance the rugby players at those schools would have to get noticed in rugby is to play for a local club team and hope that they get noticed by a bigger school or somehow make it into a provincial representative team. I think what Saru has done in the past is hold rugby clinics in the areas of these government schools and tried to support some schools and clubs, but whatever they have done has really not been effective enough. [/QUOTE]
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