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<blockquote data-quote="Sailor Pete" data-source="post: 819874" data-attributes="member: 74448"><p>Make no mistake - I'm not here to defend quotas, or the government’s interference in sport. I rate them (quotas and government interference) as low as BEE, which I consider to be a form of ethnic cleansing. I mean where else in the world does a government elected by the majority have policies in place to protect that majority from minority groups..? One only has to look at black dominated South African football, where there are no quotas (that favour whites, coloureds and Indians) to realize how duplicitous and hypocritical quotas in other sports are.</p><p></p><p>No, what I’m saying about Springbok rugby can be summed up by Lood de Jager being yellow carded, and Habana kicking the ball straight out, when he could (could) have taken the Boks much closer to the AB’s try line. These were really stupid moments in a game when the opposing team turned these stupid moments into points. This by the by is not the first time Habana has cost us. His yellow card in the semi final against the AB’s at the WC cost us that game.</p><p></p><p>So it's in this regard, that my issue with the Springboks has less to do with quotas than it has to do with brain-fade…</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sailor Pete, post: 819874, member: 74448"] Make no mistake - I'm not here to defend quotas, or the government’s interference in sport. I rate them (quotas and government interference) as low as BEE, which I consider to be a form of ethnic cleansing. I mean where else in the world does a government elected by the majority have policies in place to protect that majority from minority groups..? One only has to look at black dominated South African football, where there are no quotas (that favour whites, coloureds and Indians) to realize how duplicitous and hypocritical quotas in other sports are. No, what I’m saying about Springbok rugby can be summed up by Lood de Jager being yellow carded, and Habana kicking the ball straight out, when he could (could) have taken the Boks much closer to the AB’s try line. These were really stupid moments in a game when the opposing team turned these stupid moments into points. This by the by is not the first time Habana has cost us. His yellow card in the semi final against the AB’s at the WC cost us that game. So it's in this regard, that my issue with the Springboks has less to do with quotas than it has to do with brain-fade… [/QUOTE]
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