http://politics.za.net/articles/2007/11/09/no-more-sports-quotas en-us 40 Third world country. First world politics. <p>A day after Minister of Sport and Recreation Makhenkesi Stofile said that racial quotas would be scrapped for sports teams, President Mbeki has <a href="http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=6&#38;click_id=4&#38;art_id=vn20071109061237296C798566">confirmed it</a>, racial quotas for sport are no more.</p> <p>Consider that not even 5 months ago <span class="caps">SARU</span> Deputy President Mike Stofile (Makhenkesi&#8217;s brother) was <a href="http://politics.za.net/articles/2007/08/06/when-being-coloured-is-not-black-enough">calling for quotas</a> to ensure that at least 7 black players (excluding coloured players) were in every Springbok starting side.</p> <p>This is quite a big turnaround, I guess having a team being able to focus on winning without constant (and often incompetent) administrators intervening to get the right &#8216;balance&#8217; is a better incentive to get people to play the game. It&#8217;s also seems to be a reluctant confession that so far government&#8217;s transformation plans for sport have not produced the goods.</p> Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:42:00 -0500 urn:uuid:dcece18d-978b-4fd8-830e-3095c11ffc6b Farrel http://politics.za.net/articles/2007/11/09/no-more-sports-quotas The Executive Sport & Recreation <p><strong>happy sigh</strong> Finally the government has figured out that the margin people really care about is the winning one&#8230; well that is anyone who actual cares about the sport not the politicizations of the sport eg. ANCYL aka &#8216;rent a crowd&#8217; . Lets hope it will last.</p> Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:41:55 -0500 urn:uuid:40bcab57-e601-4b88-bc92-b48426510a89 http://politics.za.net/articles/2007/11/09/no-more-sports-quotas#comment-1013