Mbalula is guilty of reverse racism

DEAR SIR — SA was expelled from international sport during the apartheid era for exactly what Sport Minister Fikile Mbalula (pictured) is doing or proposing; he is overtly interfering with sportsmen and women on the basis of race and politics. Reverse racism for a “transformational” objective is still racism.

Imagine if the French government came out with a similar policy as the French soccer team is predominantly black, because there were not a representative number of white faces in the team.

The African National Congress government has put in place one huge transformation process for which it can take full responsibility: the transformation of our public service and state-owned enterprises. Yet every South African is daily made aware of the incompetence, corruption, nepotism and culture of kleptocracy these corporations demonstrate. They are all failed corporations. Government-run schools have become dysfunctional and are churning out otherwise unemployable young men and women.

Transformation in just about everything the government has touched has resulted in an acute fall in standards and a decline in service to the country and its citizens. We have several protests every day due to the lack of service delivery from just about every government department that affects the lives of every South African.

The people know that the government and its inept public service have run this once wonderful and functional country into the ground through sheer ineptitude, much of it on the heels of political transformation and putting the requirement of a darker skin colour over ability and competence and experience.

A gerrymandering of the number of black (as opposed to “people of colour”) South Africans competing at international level on the basis of some imperial directive from the minister will be the death knell for sport, and I hope the international fraternity rises up against this overt political interference. Dr Peter Baker Parktown North