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Imposing racial quotas is a vital step forward for South African sport
[Guardian] 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. 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. Hat tip to Mbalula. At least he was open about quotas, no back-dooring or denial. Posted by: Besoeker 2016-05-02 |
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