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Mehluli Sibanda Acting Sports Editor
INTERNATIONAL Rugby Board vice-president, South African Oregan Hoskins will visit the country next week for five days.
Hoskins who is also the president of the South African Rugby Union arrives in Zimbabwe on Sunday and would be in the country until Thursday. Among his activities in the country is meeting the Zimbabwe Union executive, officials from the Ministry of Sports, Arts and Culture.
During his visit in Zimbabwe, Hoskins will also attend the Dairibord Schools Rugby Festival (formerly Cottco) at Prince Edward High School in Harare which starts next Monday.
Andy Colquhoun, the SARU corporate affairs general manager said Hoskins was coming to Zimbabwe in his capacity as the IRB second in command.
Nyararai Sibanda, the ZRU vice-president who facilitated Hoskins’ trip to Zimbabwe said the SARU boss felt bad that he has never been across the Limpopo and the visit will give him an opportunity to see the facilities in Zimbabwe and get to see what the ZRU is doing to develop the game at grassroots level. As the head of the biggest rugby union in Africa, Hoskins is expected to share with his ZRU counterparts on how they can make rugby a viable sport in the country.
Hoskins became SARU president in 2006, the year before South Africa won the 2007 IRB Rugby World Cup in France, the second time the Springboks had lifted the Webb Ellis Trophy after doing so on home turf in 1995.
The South African was in December 2011 elected as the IRB vice-president to deputise for Frenchman Bernard Lapasset.
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