JOHANNESBURG: Hours after India's badminton supergirl PV Sindhu won a silver on the Rio Olympics in 2016, Google Trends confirmed that her caste turned into probably the most searched phrase on the engine. So much in order that the google prompter began showing 'PV Sindhu caste' prior to anything else, overlook the historic silver.
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The absurdity of that search notwithstanding, it as soon as once more brought to the fore how deep caste bias is in a country like India. Here in South Africa, they've an concept what it may well be all about. Racism, colour notwithstanding, continues to be very much South Africa's bane, a rampant disease that hasn't been wiped out.
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Mike Procter, the former ICC fit referee and a former allrounder who will have rubbed shoulders with the most efficient, if no longer for South Africa's suspension all the way through the Apartheid technology, underlined this fashion back in 1971, when as member of the Rest of South Africa workforce against Transvaal, he staged a walkout along with the likes of Graeme Pollock and Barry Richards to protest South African cricket association's interference in selection policies. Looking back, he says now, "At school-level cricket in South Africa, two bowlers of the same colour cannot open an attack. Be it two whites or two blacks, it won't work. There's got to be a bowler of different colour from each end."
That a kid, at an age when she or he is anticipated to have fun and play sport, has to know the importance of colour cannot be honest, Procter says. Just how it was unfair that Sindhu's caste turned into a matter of passion, merely as a result of her parents got married after ignoring caste variations.
Procter says racism in South Africa is alive and kicking. "What's the definition of racism? It is certainly not about whites against blacks. Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior is racism," he says.
As an example, he touches upon the subject of quota within the South African workforce, which is a directive to be adopted. "There have to be six non-white cricketers, regardless of who should fit in by way of performance," he says. Apartheid, he loves to imagine, was merely an offshoot of racism, of course no longer forgetting the unsightly and immoral doctrine that offshoot changed into.
Monkeygate
Procter says his largest low as a qualified, rather than South Africa's suspension from international cricket, was the Monkeygate affair. "I was told I believed in a white man's story and not a brown man's story. It was shattering. The first big disappointment was the total non-acceptance that Indians can be racist," he says.
Procter's autobiography 'Caught within the Middle' is out, in which he is touched upon the subjects that he's never spoken about in an extended career.
He's no longer convinced yet with the testimony that Sachin Tendulkar gave all the way through the 'Monkeygate' and writes in much element.
Yet, he is in awe of the man and says 'that' Indian workforce - one who played between 2001 and 2008 - was as excellent as any workforce within the history of the game. "I do share warm relations. I've known them (Sachin, Sourav, Rahul) for a long time. But as a match-referee, what could have I done?" he says.
Procter says he recollects India with numerous heat but is unhappy about the way it all ended up.
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The absurdity of that search notwithstanding, it as soon as once more brought to the fore how deep caste bias is in a country like India. Here in South Africa, they've an concept what it may well be all about. Racism, colour notwithstanding, continues to be very much South Africa's bane, a rampant disease that hasn't been wiped out.
ALSO READ: Decade after Monkeygate, fit referee Mike Procter still paying the associated fee
Mike Procter, the former ICC fit referee and a former allrounder who will have rubbed shoulders with the most efficient, if no longer for South Africa's suspension all the way through the Apartheid technology, underlined this fashion back in 1971, when as member of the Rest of South Africa workforce against Transvaal, he staged a walkout along with the likes of Graeme Pollock and Barry Richards to protest South African cricket association's interference in selection policies. Looking back, he says now, "At school-level cricket in South Africa, two bowlers of the same colour cannot open an attack. Be it two whites or two blacks, it won't work. There's got to be a bowler of different colour from each end."
That a kid, at an age when she or he is anticipated to have fun and play sport, has to know the importance of colour cannot be honest, Procter says. Just how it was unfair that Sindhu's caste turned into a matter of passion, merely as a result of her parents got married after ignoring caste variations.
Procter says racism in South Africa is alive and kicking. "What's the definition of racism? It is certainly not about whites against blacks. Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior is racism," he says.
As an example, he touches upon the subject of quota within the South African workforce, which is a directive to be adopted. "There have to be six non-white cricketers, regardless of who should fit in by way of performance," he says. Apartheid, he loves to imagine, was merely an offshoot of racism, of course no longer forgetting the unsightly and immoral doctrine that offshoot changed into.
Monkeygate
Procter says his largest low as a qualified, rather than South Africa's suspension from international cricket, was the Monkeygate affair. "I was told I believed in a white man's story and not a brown man's story. It was shattering. The first big disappointment was the total non-acceptance that Indians can be racist," he says.
Procter's autobiography 'Caught within the Middle' is out, in which he is touched upon the subjects that he's never spoken about in an extended career.
He's no longer convinced yet with the testimony that Sachin Tendulkar gave all the way through the 'Monkeygate' and writes in much element.
Yet, he is in awe of the man and says 'that' Indian workforce - one who played between 2001 and 2008 - was as excellent as any workforce within the history of the game. "I do share warm relations. I've known them (Sachin, Sourav, Rahul) for a long time. But as a match-referee, what could have I done?" he says.
Procter says he recollects India with numerous heat but is unhappy about the way it all ended up.
Racism is very much alive in South Africa: Mike Procter
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