They introduced it I guess to keep control for their children etc. To oppress people, just normal everyday people who, at the time were fairly rural still. Like many areas of the world, nothing wrong with that.

Fast forward and the rest of the world developed, SA citizens didn’t due to laws and they act and behave in a way the regime feels is not appropriate. No infrastructure occurred, not much education.

Come election time the people don’t understand what democracy really means, and 16 years later still don’t. The country going to ruin because of the legacy of a system designed to keep the very people they call ignorant, ignorant.

Certainly not one of Africa’s proudest moments. Mind you, there haven’t been many.

After the dutch landed, like any nation, people developed seperate communities – some with strong rugby clutures. People settled in different places. E.G: Why is there a moslem cemetry and mosques in Constantia, Claremont main road etc? Easy – quite alot of the land was non-white owned. Before Apartheid law, there were newspapers printed in african languages with african editors. There were non-white lawyers, doctors etc etc

In any event, the apartheid laws starting being introduced from 1948 already to obviously stop the influence of “inferior” people on their country.

Besides – the people who landed here in the 1600′s were dutch, they don’t caremuch for Rugby as a priority sport. They did well in the FIFA world cup though. The British brought rugby when they arrived, a little while later.

So when the chaps arrived in 1600 what did they find? Locals in big cities with lights, water, rugby and cars? No, they found guys sitting around doing very little. Since then not much has changed. Apartheid only lasted 30 years, the chaps have been here for 100 000 years.

To understand this one needs to look at the 30 years of Apartheid law as the chopping down process….

Hell, maybe Snor is more Afrikaner than you think Skop?

A more pernicious problem is that there is no system to do due diligence on selections that are made. How do we know if the Qriquas Craven week side is the best available and that the selections were fair and reasonable. Were the selectors influenced in any way?

This is fundamental in that we lose a lot of talented youngsters by not identifying them early enough and developing them or because they become despondant and quit.

There need to be checks and balances in place to ensure that our most precious resource is optimally managed. For instance, at Craven week level, the selectors have to provide detailed feedback about the top 8 or 10 players in each position and provide good explanations why they selected who they did. They need to justify their selections objectively.

Consider that if there are 20 teams at Craven week of 22 players and detailed data is kept on 10 in each spot, each year detailed information on 3000 players will be collected. this will grow into a fantastic database which we can exploit in numerous ways, such as establishing good base lines for comparison etc. if done well, this would be our biggest asset in a few years.

Obviously then, corruption in selection will be mercilessly rooted out!

By North Harbour nogal…………

Some just don’t get it… it’s not rocket science…

You could learn a lot from PA’s postings… then maybe not!

it has some good areas on the coast.

ok, the locals are a little odd and appear inbred (and perhaps they are given the lack of migration into the area) but generally they act towards visitors in a friendly manner.

except, of course, those degenerates from a peculiar area near the airport called forest something or other (mind you there is no sign of a forest within 100kms).
the other strange part of pe is “north end” – the last outpost of eugene’s progeny living outside of oranje.

apparently it is the same area where the new super stadium is located.

should be an interesting crowd at the first 3n game in a million years

even the worst student in math.stats 101 would have to agree.

But then again, he believes they should just miraculously appear at EP senior level for Currie Cup and Super 15 inclusion.