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Originally Posted by Nostromo  If you check properly, Peter did not take anything from Paul. Peter worked bloody hard to get where he is, only to find that he has been excluded to make room for Paul for something that some other people whom Peter never even knew took from Paul's ancestors a long time ago. By equating those people with Peter based on a similar skin colour is in itself a superb example of racial discrimination.
Apartheid is still alive and well in South Africa, exceot that is now wearing a different shade of coat. |
Really. I live in SA and do not see how you can honestly say that apartheid is alive. Have you been to SA during aprtheid and have you been to SA after apartheid. The problem with many of you people is that you talk about things on which you have absolutely no experience in. You form your judgments based on biased reporting (especially in England and USA). If you experienced apartheid firsthand like I have then you would not be so quick to judge. Please tell me have you ever seen a non-white person represent SA in sport during the apartheid era. You will still notice that our national team is still made up of mostly white players, so how this can be compared to the past when not a single non-white player is beyond me.
I will tell you what the real problem is. You should come to SA and SEE for yourself. You should see the facilities that we have here. The "whites" have far better facilities with respect to wickets, coaching and money. In fact most of our disadvantage play on concrete wickets with maybe 3 sets of pads for the whole team. There is no money in cricket here in SA, so we struggle to get sponsors. Rugby on the other hand gets to "choose and refuse" sponsors. I wonder why? How are we ever supposed to get the balance right if the same previously advantaged people still have all the wealth and opportunities. The unions have been given enough time to come up with a plan to promote the game to the disadvantaged but of course they refused. That is the reason why they are now being forced to select non-white players.
So maybe you are right, apartheid is still alive but it is certainly the old one and not this new one that you talk about. Come see for yourself.