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/ 7 November 2007
Sports and Recreation Minister Makhenkesi Stofile ruled out racial quotas for national teams on Tuesday after the mainly white Springboks’ recent victory in the Rugby World Cup reignited the debate over transformation. ”Quotas are out,” Stofile told a parliamentary sports committee. ”Let us put our resources into the development of talent.”
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/ 5 November 2007
A slim majority of the population favoured racial quotas in national sports teams, a survey by the Human Sciences Research Council said. The results from the South African Social Attitudes Survey showed there were still strong racial disparities in the level of support for quotas.