SA is quota-obsessed
by Peter Macadam, North Shore City, New Zealand (letter addressed to and published in Financial Mail magazine)
Gerald Majola, CEO of Cricket SA, must be living in cuckooland if he believes cricketers and sports people in general buy into the quota-obsessed transformation policies of the ANC.
SA is the only country in the world that selects players on ethnicity for national teams. Under normal circumstances, these quota players wouldn't be selected because they're simply not good enough to represent their country.
It seems as if the country will continue its racist legacy of apartheid via the new buzzword of transformation, warmly embraced by those who now achieve greatness due to their ethnicity, not through merit. This quota madness has permeated every facet of the country and its institutions. It is social engineering aimed at unfair advantage for a select few, based on their race.
I'm sure South Africans by and large don't care who represents them at national level, as long as they are the best of the best, not quotas. Why must everything be demographically representative to be acceptable in SA?
Shame on you Majola and all your ANC mates who try to put a positive spin on transformation. It's an unworkable policy that perpetuates the failed policy of apartheid. Second-best never works in the real world, but it seems as if mediocrity rules supreme in the virtual world of Majola and others who embrace the new apartheid called transformation.
NVDL: I think what is happening is white South Africans have lost their common sense. Some black officials (in sports) keep playing the race card, and so whites overcompensate going: "Sorry, what can we do to help." "Well, just step aside and let us take over." As Macadam says, only in South Africa do we allow second best.
The problem lies both with the chancers, and those too dim-witted to realise that given in to this sort of manipulation is neither natural nor right.
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