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Africa Subsaharan
Imposing racial quotas is a vital step forward for South African sport
2016-05-02
[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

#4  What is cricket? Thought they were bugs.
Posted by: Beau   2016-05-02 22:34  

#3  Don't forget the transexuals.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2016-05-02 18:32  

#2  Has the thought ever occurred to a single individual on this rock that there is only one race so when asked if racist I say no it is bad for the knees running and all that lame crap!
Posted by: Cheamble Unegum3495   2016-05-02 18:14  

#1  Habana Habana.

Bryan Gary Habana OIS (born 12 June 1983[2] in Benoni, Gauteng Province) is a South African rugby union player who plays as a wing for Toulon in the French Top 14 competition, as well as 2007 Rugby World Cup champions Springboks. Habana was one of the stars of the World Cup, his eight tries equalling the record set by Jonah Lomu in 1999, and was named the 2007 IRB Player of the Year.

During the 2015 Rugby World Cup he equalled Lomu's record of 15 tries, and also moved into the joint second place of all time test try scorers, with a tally of 64.

Named after former Manchester United footballers Bryan Robson and Gary Bailey,[3] he played outside centre and scrumhalf in provincial and age group rugby, but once he was moved to the wing a vast improvement was seen. Prior to his first year of Super Rugby he was selected for the Springboks, scoring a try with his first touch of the ball in test rugby in the end-of-season match against England at Twickenham in 2004.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-05-02 08:44  

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