Yeah, where's whitey?
Posted on 05/01/2016 8:34:44 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
South Africa’s sports minister has announced that he will no longer “beg for racial transformation”, but will start forcing the country’s sporting federations to fulfil racial quotas.
Fikile Mbalula said in a speech on Sunday that the cricket, rugby, netball and athletics federations would be banned from bidding for any international tournaments until their numbers of black players improved.
South Africans of colour, more than 90% of the population, remain the minority in starting line-ups more than two decades after the end of draconian white-minority rule which prohibited them competing at the highest level.
For more than 50 years, black athletes were banned from representing their national sides. Thanks to these policies, it’s taken South African cricket more than 20 years to produce Temba Bavuma, who earlier this year became the first black cricketer to earn the country a century in Test cricket.
The spectre of exclusion still hangs over South African rugby, too: under Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer, who resigned in December, there were frequent complaints of black players being sidelined while white players were being played out in position.
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Enjoy losing at various sports, Mr. Mbalula, if you lock out better athletes due to racial quotas.
What a dope.
Sadly, many Westerners believe the propaganda about RSA, that has been shoved down their throats for many decades.
The workers knew how to run the farms, but it’s not like they were put in charge of them. It was Mugabe’s thugs. I thought most farmer blacks fled.
Very true, except for the Bushmen, who really just walked through that area and never had a permanent settlement anywhere.
They did, but that is Zimbabwe/Rhodesia, not South Africa.
Yeah, where's whitey?
Capetown yep. But the Afrikaners clashed with the Zulu when they settled Johannesburg during the Great Trek.
Thank you; very educational!
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