Monday, June 05, 2006

Reverse Apatheid

South Africa was very greatful to Nelson Mandella for his struggle against the racist policies in the country in the 60s. The entire world boycotted South Africa for 20 years for its racial policies. Imagine loosing 20 years. Sportsmen couldn't be in Olympics for that time, not participation in business sumits, no governmental contracts, no nothing. The impact on social, economic developement is beyond imagination.
But now from what I read there is reverse apartheid in South Africa. Cricket team has to have certain mix of colored and white players. So when one wonders what happened to South Africans after 2000... there lies the answer. There are similar examples in other fields. The have a Kolpak agreement to which SA professionals can go and work unrestricted in some of the European countries. This arrangement coupled with the reverse apertheid saw several of the promising professionals (cricketers for sure) abandon SA. Just for kicks.. Kevin Peterson who now represents England in cricket was born and brought up in SA went to England and got naturalized for better oppurtunity!

Surely India can take leads from whats happning to South Africa! We don't need to be kicked off the train this time....

2 Comments:

Blogger Niket said...

Nice comparison...
May be our children will follow the same path...to other countries...
Or if they go ahead with reservation in private sector... may be I will also follow the same path...for better opportunities...

4:51 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi Sachin,

Good work of putting your views on the net. Good comparison. Well the work in the direction of social causes shall always bring great result for the humanity.

I appreciate your effort.


Regards,
Kamal Tilani

12:44 AM  

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