SA Rugby boss Roux ordered to pay millions to university

SA Rugby boss Jurie Roux has to pay back R37-million to Stellenbosch University in a case that has been going on for years and which the rugby administrator seems to have lost on appeal after previously been found guilty, according to reports.

News24 reports that Roux misappropriated funds at the university during his time there serving in the finance department, and recently lost the appeal.

According to News24, the Arbitration Appeal Tribunal panel said: “Mr Roux’s strategy was in various instances glaringly evasive, consisting, as it did, of reams of bald denials in his ultimately amended plea. His evidence was no different – evasive and argumentative, and smacked of sophism.”

The case stems from Roux’s time at the university between 2002 and 2010 where he was accused of using unauthorised funds for the Maties Rugby Club.

Roux became SA Rugby boss in 2013 and has served as the organisation’s CEO and MD for the last eight years.