RACISM IN CRICKET by Telford Vice • Last updated on Share Tweet “I will adjudicate all complaints that I will have received, which, by and large and overall, relates to unfair discrimination in cricket.” © Getty Dumisa Ntsebeza, the newly-appointed ombud of CSA’s Social Justice and Nation-building (SJN) project, has six months to investigate evidence of racism in the 30 years of supposedly unified cricket in South Africa. His work will entail interviewing a wide range of stakeholders, holding public online hearings, and writing a report that will include recommendations. All that? In six months? And while having to navigate the culture of an organisation that has a poor record for implementing independent recommendations, and which so wracked by division that it is at odds with itself on whether the players should take a knee before games? Good thing Ntsebeza is among the country’s most senior advocates: he served on the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), which from 1996 to 2003 aimed to give South Africans restorative justice in the wake of apartheid. “I will adjudicate all complaints that I will have received, which, by and large and overall, relates to unfair discrimination in cricket,” Ntsebeza told an online… Read full this story
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