LETTER: Mthethwa is out of line
Who is sports minister to prescribe the causes for which people should kneel?
Sports minister Nathi Mthethwa is out of line in asking SA Rugby to make a pronouncement on the actions of eight SA players, who declined to kneel in support of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement ahead of a match played in Britain at the weekend. The players were well within their rights legally, constitutionally and morally, to refuse to kneel.
There can be no innuendo inferred from their refusal to kneel, despite the minister’s concern. The BLM movement emerged after the death of George Floyd in America, at the hands of a policeman. Floyd had a criminal record, and as BLM protesters have since been responsible for many riots and looting in cities across the US, any homage to them is unprincipled...
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