Things may be, in some ways, about colour. But not "just like [in the] apartheid era". There are some pretty fundamental differences between the kind of discrimination which you now perceive to be taking place and the kind of discrimination that was taking place then. You can disagree with "positive discrimination" all you want (and I don't offer an opinion on it) but to equate it with what happened under apartheid is frankly absurd.
No dear sir I ensure you there is no difference. In apartheid all ethnic groups were allowed to play cricket. It's just that there was only a certain % that were allowed into the national team ccording to color (white). In apartheid there was a 100% priority given to develop cricket in white communities. In todays game like in apartheid erra too, the team has a percentage target(like in apartheid) of how many HAVE to be black. The rule is very biased because there is no limit on the amount of black talent to represent SA. In apartheid and today there is zero possibility for a team to be based 200% on merit because before merit is even considered, color comes/came into the equation. All CSA are doing now are making it more like apartheid by effectively targetting a certain race in cricket development so how do you see the 2 erras differ?
Oh, just a few tiny little differences. Details, really. Like:
Not very likely if the team already has 7 whites you can forget it about it based on your race. This argument only becomes valid in the context of a team selection from scratch but becomes invalid once the team starts to get crowded with the quota number of blacks or whites. A prime example here is some of the best talent in the country that is coming up in the moment are white:
Really?
Personally I think it's quite a small difference. The bottom line is, you're being left out of the team (you're being denied a job in favour of an obviously inferior candidate) because of the colour of your skin and nothing more. There's a name for that- Racism. Whatever you call it or however you dress it up, it's still racism. A comparison to apartheid is rather extreme but I can certainly see where he's coming from.
It's discrimination, but it's not racism.
On a theroetical level yes there is some kind of point but read Basil D'Oliveira: Cricket and Controversy by Peter Oborne if you are in any doubt that it was very very diffferent.
Precisely. As does the context within which the discrimination occurs, and the reasons for it.
Because the ANC is busy ensuring that the poor are gettig poorer and that the white majority that were considered to be rich is on the steady decline. True there are a certain number of white people that can afford top education for thier kids but I certainly can not and a number of people I know can't either. BEE has also made it more difficult for whites to get work so no doubt the number of white people that will get access to top level education for thier kids will no doubt decline steadily in the next couple of years.
I didn't say top education, I said decent schools. I didn't go to a private school myself, but I was certainly offered the opportunity to play a fair selection of sports. Including soccer by the way. I would think it unfair for government not to focus funds where these opportunities are not available. And because of our past, this tends to be in areas and schools where the kids are, for the most part, black Africans. You may not like it, but that's the way it is, funds are limited and they should absolutely go to the most needy.
An interesting twist on this is that the number of Black Africans attending top independant schools with the best facilities have declined since apartheid.
Maybe his British visa was approved?
