Cricket - S.A. - the Wilderness years

[Questions]

Fascinating series during the saturday lunch breaks looking back from the D`Olivera days through the rebels tours and next time the Hansjie match fixing story.
Colin Croft trying to justify the West Indies rebel tour and then being thrown out of a whites only carriage on a train.
Ali Bacher fearing for Gattings life and then as an afterthought mentioning that the demonstrating blacks might be in danger as well.


I can understand how nearly everyone has their price but to listen to some of them trying to convince people they were there to help did really sound pitiful.

 

[vegster]

Fascinating series during the saturday lunch breaks looking back from the D`Olivera days through the rebels tours and next time the Hansjie match fixing story.
Colin Croft trying to justify the West Indies rebel tour and then being thrown out of a whites only carriage on a train.
Ali Bacher fearing for Gattings life and then as an afterthought mentioning that the demonstrating blacks might be in danger as well.


I can understand how nearly everyone has their price but to listen to some of them trying to convince people they were there to help did really sound pitiful.

Not just cricket, It was the Wilderness Years for the entire nation. An oppressive minority government that crushed the freedom of the majority and earned international opprobium from the free world.
Isolated and alone It had to change or explode in to outright war.

Which is a point for South African president Tabo M'beki to consider when he next has tea with that Mr. Mugabe

The more things change, the more they stay the same

 

[Questions]

I still wonder how it all ended so bloodlessly. (is that a word )
Looking back I have little respect for all those South African cricketers who said that they did not really know what was going on. It was there in front of their noses. They were gutless and for all those who never spoke out I will always have the utmost contempt.

 

[mona]

I still wonder how it all ended so bloodlessly. (is that a word )
Looking back I have little respect for all those South African cricketers who said that they did not really know what was going on. It was there in front of their noses. They were gutless and for all those who never spoke out I will always have the utmost contempt.

Perhaps you would enjoy a stroll around Durban or Joburg. Oh never mind.

 

[vegster]

I still wonder how it all ended so bloodlessly. (is that a word )
Looking back I have little respect for all those South African cricketers who said that they did not really know what was going on. It was there in front of their noses. They were gutless and for all those who never spoke out I will always have the utmost contempt.

You can't blame ALL South African cricketers..... the spark which causes change can come from anywhere. But, by definition it is only a spark at first. Gandhi was a lawyer and Lech Walensa was an electrician.
Maggie Thatcher was a research chemist who managed fo find a way to boost ice cream profits by pumping it full of air, thus screwing the consumer, something she made a career of.

So, change can come from unexpected quarters.... the trouble is at that point in time there were only a couple of hundred pro cricketers in the country. to find a socio-political revolutionary from such a small pool of people would have been miraculous indeed.

 

[Questions]

You can't blame ALL South African cricketers..... the spark which causes change can come from anywhere. But, by definition it is only a spark at first. Gandhi was a lawyer and Lech Walensa was an electrician.
Maggie Thatcher was a research chemist who managed fo find a way to boost ice cream profits by pumping it full of air, thus screwing the consumer, something she made a career of.

So, change can come from unexpected quarters.... the trouble is at that point in time there were only a couple of hundred pro cricketers in the country. to find a socio-political revolutionary from such a small pool of people would have been miraculous indeed.

Dont f***ing start on abart Ghandi................
Refuses to eat his dinner and they give him India

 

[Questions]

Perhaps you would enjoy a stroll around Durban or Joburg. Oh never mind.

Hopefully I might be for the cricket next year if I can get my accountant to do some imaginative re-distributing of monies.

 

[vegster]

Dont f***ing start on abart Ghandi................
Refuses to eat his dinner and they give him India

well, he made a better job of India than we did and at least he dressed for the weather.

 

[Questions]

well, he made a better job of India than we did and at least he dressed for the weather.

Rubbish. India, Pakistan, Afgahistaan all run like clockwork when we had them.

You`ve seen Carry on up the Khyber aint yer.

 

[vegster]

Rubbish. India, Pakistan, Afgahistaan all run like clockwork when we had them.

You`ve seen Carry on up the Khyber aint yer.

Rubbish, the rag-heads and the red spots were always potting us. They were too busy fighting each other until we came along. Of course, we made a better target, marching up and down in the heat of the day dressed in bright red. Can't blame them plus there was the added bonus of planting a blonde m'sab from time to time.

 

[Questions]

Rubbish, the rag-heads and the red spots were always potting us. They were too busy fighting each other until we came along. Of course, we made a better target, marching up and down in the heat of the day dressed in bright red. Can't blame them plus there was the added bonus of planting a blonde m'sab from time to time.

We wore red tunics so that the blood would not show up.....................

A similar reason why the French wore brown trousers into battle.


sorry..........

 

[vegster]

We wore red tunics so that the blood would not show up.....................

A similar reason why the French wore brown trousers into battle.


sorry..........

well, if we had dressed up as rocks we would still have India ?