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- From: gavan@elc.mth.uct.ac.za (Gavan Tredoux)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
- Subject: Southern African Sport
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.224849.21524@ucthpx.uct.ac.za>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 22:48:49 GMT
- Article-I.D.: ucthpx.1992Nov15.224849.21524
- Sender: news@ucthpx.uct.ac.za (UCT News Admin.)
- Organization: University of Cape Town
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- I am glad somebody has been posting S. African Rugby Tour matches scores to the
- group. I could smell a hint of some subjects who were missing the point
- altogether and were trying to bring across the question of Blacks in S African
- teams, and I just thought I could bring the following observation to
- those who care to look at facts without prejudice and without reading between
- the lines:
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- 1) Zimbabwe's Rugby team, which has been to the last two world cup contests
- has fewer than 5 blacks who command regular positions in the squad.
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- 2) Zimbabwe's Cricket team, which recently gained test status, is composed
- almost entirely of non-blacks.
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- 3) Zimbabwe's Soccer team, which is enjoying some success , apart from
- Liverpool's Bruce Grobelaar, is made up entirely of non-whites.
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- 4) Rugby is the fastest growing sport in Zimbabwe.
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- My reason for bringing this is that while to some rascist minded person
- who has never been to Zimbabwe, it does look like there could be a problem
- here, the fact of the matter is there is no problem at all. Rugby and cricket
- are sports introduced to Blacks some ten years ago. Especially for
- cricket, a lot of money is required to buy the equipment, and the time required
- practising in the nets is quite substantial as anybody who knows anything about
- cricket can testify. Remember, people who started playing cricket at age nine
- 10 years ago are still only 19 , and indeed several young black cricketers
- have recently been considereed for national select ( F. Nhongerayi and
- G. Dube), and provincial schoolboy teams (bothe Rugby and Cricket) are beginning to show numbers that
- reflect the racial composition of the Nation and in a few years, these are the
- same people who will be competing at the senior level.
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- To the sport-loving S. africans who've been posting scores lately, Keep us
- updated. We (Zimbabwe) drew with India in our inaugaral Test Cricket Match, and I hope S. Africa wins the current series against India.
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- To cricket lovers: Recently, Zimbabwe , I understand, expressed interest in
- entering the Castle Cup Competitions. Any further developments?
- We in Zimbabwe need this to improve our competiveness because we were sick of
- everyone's B team coming to play in Zimbabwe.
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