LETTER: Colour bans in cricket should set off warning bells
Reason, even if its presence was minimal, has been replaced by bloody-mindedness
SA’s racial policies have continuously brought the country closer to dissolution rather than solution. A fixation on race is the consequence of such policies and their practices, and though it goes against the grain to hear that a certain team must have a fixed percentage or number of black African cricketers, black cricketers and white cricketers, it is the bitter harvest we continue to reap.
Now, as if to rub salt in its own wounds, Cricket SA has made a commitment to the sports minister that no white consultants will be used (“Without broadcast deals, board hopefuls have nothing to bat for” (mailto://https//www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/columnists/2020-08-31-neil-manthorp-without-broadcast-deals-board-hopefuls-have-nothing-to-bat-for/), August 31). When such a ban is placed on any person solely because of his or her colour, warning bells must ring. Reason, even if its presence was minimal, has been replaced by bloody-mindedness...
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