[Don’t forget the race quotas being forced on all businesses in this country. Any business that does not enforce racial quotas can be fined, starting from as “little” as R500,000. Even the liberals in the DA (official opposition) are unhappy about racial quotas. Jan]

Cape Town – South African sports teams would decline in quality and lose international credibility if the ANC kept its obsession with race, Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon said on Friday.

“We have sacrificed our nation’s sporting potential once before in the service of racial ideology; we should never make the same mistake again,” he said in his weekly newsletter on the DA website.

The letter follows an announcement last week by the chairperson of parliament’s sports portfolio committee that African National Congress MPs intend to press for legislation to enforce racial transformation in sport.

Leon said that in the apartheid era the ANC adopted a principled non-racial position, but now it has gained power it was enforcing a policy “obsessed with race” and what its own documents referred to as “the continuing battle to assert African hegemony”.

“And so, several decades after Hassan Howa famously declared ‘no normal sport in an abnormal society’, South Africa now faces the prospect of abnormal sport in a normalising society,” he said.

“If the state applies racial criteria to cricket and rugby, what is next?

“Will there be quotas for bridge and lawn bowls? Will the government start telling South African chess players to move the black pieces first?”

Leon said if there was any role for the state in sport, it was to ensure that people in previously disadvantaged communities were given access to the facilities, training and opportunities they needed to participate and compete in sport as equals.

Source: News24.Com
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