There is the recent news about violence against immigrants from neighbouring countries. Are xenophobic sentiments being stoked mischeviously by a ringleader or has the violence just erupted spontaneously?
Looking at South Africa's rugby XV and cricket XI, I always have to remind myself that the country is still a fundamentally black country. I think it is not a bad idea at all when talented but underachieving blacks are given opportunities to join the national squads but only as say, a substitute on the bench or the 12th man fetching the drinks until they have earned the right to be selected on merit. After all, the ethnic composition of the squad does not augur well for the future of the game if it is too skewed in favour of certain ethnic groups.
At least South Africa has not taken the catastrophic route of the Zimbabwe Cricket Union. Peter Chingoonka is a massive joke - not to mention a massive waste of space with that kind of girth he has. _________________ Hillary Clinton is an acquired taste which I have clearly yet to acquire.
I've made a few posts on the xenophobic attacks on the thread "Cry the Beloved Country" in the politics forum.
The attacks are the result of a boiling pot which just waited to boil over, with the government preferring to look the other way (as usual, when trouble arises).
I agree about the sports teams, and the interesting thing is that black cricketers and rugby players have now started to protest the quota system. They want to make the national team on merit, not on their skin colour. _________________ Toe ek jonk was, het ek al die antwoorde geken. Nou verstaan ek nie eens die vrae nie.
I've made a few posts on the xenophobic attacks on the thread "Cry the Beloved Country" in the politics forum.
The attacks are the result of a boiling pot which just waited to boil over, with the government preferring to look the other way (as usual, when trouble arises).
I agree about the sports teams, and the interesting thing is that black cricketers and rugby players have now started to protest the quota system. They want to make the national team on merit, not on their skin colour.
Yes, this is quite ironic when the fight against one discrimination produces a different one.
It reminds me of the situation in Poland in the 50s when students of working class background were granted additional scores during universities' entrance exams only because their parents were the workers...
I've made a few posts on the xenophobic attacks on the thread "Cry the Beloved Country" in the politics forum.
The attacks are the result of a boiling pot which just waited to boil over, with the government preferring to look the other way (as usual, when trouble arises).
I agree about the sports teams, and the interesting thing is that black cricketers and rugby players have now started to protest the quota system. They want to make the national team on merit, not on their skin colour.
Yes, this is quite ironic when the fight against one discrimination produces a different one.
True....
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It reminds me of the situation in Poland in the 50s when students of working class background were granted additional scores during universities' entrance exams only because their parents were the workers...
Yes, the more things change, the more they remain the same... Except that in our case, it has nothing to do with working class, but strictly with colour, so a black guy from a rich family gets preference over a white guy from a poor family....
_________________ Toe ek jonk was, het ek al die antwoorde geken. Nou verstaan ek nie eens die vrae nie.
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