The Springboks could be banned from participating at next month’s Rugby World Cup.

The South African Rugby Union is being taken to court by the Agency for the New Agenda (ANA), who argue that the Springboks World Cup squad doesn’t represent the whole of South Africa.

The ANA is seeking an order that would force players and officials to surrender their passports, preventing them from flying to the UK, the Guardian reports.

The organisation argues that the 31-man Springbok squad isn’t in line with the government’s policy on transformation and is mainly white.

“The action is a public duty to defend our constitution and to consign to the rubbish bin of history all vestiges and remnants of racial bigotry, racial exclusion and discrimination,” Edward Mahlomola Mokhoanatse, the ANA president, said.

Coach Heyneke Meyer believes that he has met the ‘transformation’ quota requirement by naming nine players (30 per cent) of colour in his squad.

One of them, the wing Bryan Habana, who will be playing in his third World Cup, said he fully supported Meyer.

“This is unfortunately something that is always going to be a part of South African rugby,” said Habana.

“I’m fully behind Heyneke’s standing in the situation and wanting to make this World Cup a successful one for South Africa.

Mokhoanatse added he would be asking the North Gauteng high court to establish a judicial commission of inquiry into “the lack of transformation in South Africa Rugby.