Apparently in South Africa White people are just too good at sport
To give the black people a chance the government are setting mandatory quotas.
From Times of Johannesburg..."Failure to field 60% black players will lead to the Proteas (Cricket), the Springboks (Rugby) and Bafana Bafana (Soccer) being banned from representing South Africa at international events. This is according to resolutions taken by the Department of Sport following a meeting between Minister of Sport Fikile Mbalula and the provincial MECs for sport on Saturday.
They discussed a report, released last week, on the status of transformation in the most popular sports , rugby, cricket, netball, athletics and football.
Mbalula said the group decided to increase the 50/50 quota system to 60% representation after noting a "lack of willingness in implementing transformation, especially the enforcement of quotas".
Failure to implement the new quotas would result in withdrawal of any form of funding and support to federations and sport bodies, he said."[We will] withdraw the national colours of any federation that is hell-bent on the current set-up and status quo."
Mbalula said his department would block sponsorship of any sports association that was hostile to transformation. Bidding for and hosting sports events would become illegal without government approval.The 60% requirement would come into effect immediately.
"http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2014/04/07/hard-line-taken-on-white-sport
By the way, this piece of genius is being pushed by the same minister for Sport who Mbalula, who when celebrating his 40th birthday at an exclusive party attended by the likes of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, former ANC chief whip Tony Yengeni, former Miss SA Joan Ramagoshi, and US music stars including Brandy Norwood, Ray J and Keri Hilson, also apologised to the nation for bedding Johannesburg model Joyce Molamu."I have apologised to my family, particularly to my wife, as I should have known better," Mbalula said in a statement.
and more recently...April 7 2014 at 11:53am CAPE TIMES
Cape Town - Politics turned surreal on Sunday as Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula compared the DA’s governing of the Western Cape to witchcraft - and urged residents to summon the help of tokoloshes. “This thing of witchcraft is when a witch does nothing for the people but they still get re-elected. This is what we find ourselves in here in the Western Cape. We are being governed by witches,” Mbalula told the crowd at the Lusaka Community Hall.
In his speech, Mbalula laid into the DA-led provincial government and what he termed a failure to deliver for poor communities. “These witches are oppressing us, they are trampling on us. Where are the tokoloshes and the (sangomas) so that we can chase these witches away?
A future president I think