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Coach says sorry for referee assault

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Johannesburg – The EG Jansen High School first team rugby coach who shoved the referee after a match and swore at him has apologised, Beeld reported on Wednesday. 

Schalk Snyman said on Tuesday he was “very sad” about the incident with Mlungiseleli Mdashe.

“Everybody can see on the video what happened, and the context makes no difference, an offence stays an offence,” Snyman was quoted saying.

His future would be decided at a disciplinary hearing on Wednesday.

According to Jurie Coetzee, head of the Valke Rugby Union, and Leon de Beer, headmaster of EG Jansen High School in Boksburg, Snyman had been provisionally banned from any involvement with the Valke and the school, pending the hearing’s outcome.

Mdashe said he was considering “a very serious charge of assault, intimidation and undermining my authority”. He said he might proceed with a civil case, depending on the outcome of the disciplinary hearing.

“In the end, I want rugby to win. I hope the right decision will be taken,” Mdashe said.

Snyman attempted to contact Mdashe on Monday and Tuesday to apologise, but Mdashe, acting on the advice of his lawyers, refused to speak to him. 

– SAPA

Rugby camp incident a prank – school

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Edgemead High School has denied that “any criminal activity took place” in the case of a 16-year-old who alleged he was sexually molested at a rugby camp in March.

The Cape Argus reported last week that the boy had apparently been given alcohol and, while unconscious, had had his eyebrows and head shaven and had later allegedly been attacked with a broomstick by older boys.

The incident was apparently part of an “initiation”.

School governing body chairwoman Mrs L Smith said in a statement on the school’s website: “The Edgemead High School was subjected to adverse media coverage on May 10, 2012, in connection with an incident which occurred during a recent first-team rugby tour to Velddrif.”

She called what is alleged by the victim “a prank”.

“This media release is deemed necessary because a considerable portion of the content of the media coverage was either completely false and/or distorted,” she wrote.

She said the incident had been fully investigated by the school’s management and the seven boys involved in the incident had appeared before the governing body.

“The school is completely confident that due process was followed throughout. Despite media coverage alleging criminal acts on the part of the pupils, no such evidence was forthcoming in the investigation, and no such evidence was provided by the parents of the pupil,” she said.

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