South Africa to axe its coloured player bias

Old news (04 Dec 08 ) but I missed it ... I'm from Queensland.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/sport/cricket/south-africa-to-axe-its-coloured-player-bias/2008/12/03/1228257139600.html


SOUTH Africa's controversial selection policy on coloured players will be scrapped after the resounding success within the national side, which now fields top performing non-white players who are ranked among the world's best.

Plans have been made to continue the "target transformation policy" — often referred to as a "quota system" — for the next three years before discarding it for merit-based only selection.

Currently, Cricket South Africa has set a selection target of four coloured players for the Proteas team and its six domestic franchises.

"The goal is to get merit-based selection at all levels of cricket," CSA chief executive Gerald Majola said last night.

"We have decided to continue with the target transformation policy for the next three years, with a review at the end of each year. At the end of the three years we hope we can then move to merit-based selection across the board."

The Proteas have selected seven coloured players in their 15-man squad to tour Australia from next week: Ashwell Prince, Hashim Amla, Makhaya Ntini, Robin Peterson, Jean-Paul Duminy, Lonwabo Tsotsobe and Monde Zondeki. The policy has prompted much debate and controversy since it was officially adopted in 1998.

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It is such old news that the report was denied by CSA the following day.

So CSA's chief executive was speaking out of shop?