Here's another interesting article, about the only white player in South Africa's football team....
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 727686.eceHe has been bold enough to say things that others have been reluctant to say:
“The stadiums built for the World Cup should be used as the foundation for South Africa’s real national sport, football, to grow and become inclusive for all. White children here still don’t play football at school. They play rugby and cricket on manicured grounds, on grass. Nine out of 10 children here are black or coloured [mixed race] and the majority play football on dirt and scrubland. If our true national sport is football, why does it suffer from such a lack of investment?”
“Nothing’s changed. It’s an elitist race issue. In our country, if you’re black you play football at school and support football. If you’re white you play rugby or cricket at school and support one of the two.”
Now, how can cricket reach out to the black majority, if it's still being promoted as a sport for South African whites? Black kids will shun the sport, because they still see it as an apartheid sport....