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What I thought was interesting about SA was that while they had dismantled the legal trappings of apartheid, the government finds it necessary, in the interests of "positive discrimination", to ask businesses to regularly report on the "colour" of their staff ("white", "blacK", "coloured") and where they are in the business. Given that these categories are fairly arbitrary (under apartheid one could apply to change one's designation), I'm not sure how businesses report accurately on these numbers.
There were targets for how many "blacks" there should be at certain levels in businesses. There were also training responsibilities - the businesses give the government money, at the end of the year they prove they've spent that amount on training for all employees, and then the government refunds that money (that was my understanding, anyhow - am happy to stand corrected).
So, there's definitely a "stick" approach to transformation, probably due to there not being too many carrots to wave around.
What this means is that the rugby may be getting caught up in the same system, but I'm not sure how this applies to national sporting teams - surely the coaching staff, administration, etc, would and should be more subject to such systems rather than the actual players?
I'm no fan of Jake (to put it mildly), but he has a very, very difficult job if this is what is going on.