Murray, what I'm seeing here is a strong anti-Afrikaner bias. Not impressed. Daily Maverick wants comments to be carefully non-racist, but they publish prejudiced drivel like this?

You've distorted what Solidarity and AfriForum said, and writers who distort the words of others always piss me off. They want selection by merit at the top levels, but are strongly in favour of development of sport at schools level for ALL races, so that the country's best talent can be identified early and nurtured all the way to the top. Take a look at the number of white, Afrikaans-speaking coaches who are doing phenomenal work with young athletes of colour. Afrikaans-speaking coaches make an enormous contribution to developing athletes from ALL race groups, and they develop their athletes to the highest possible level, often for no or very modest remuneration. Caster had an Afrikaans coach at one point, as I recall, and Wayde's Afrikaans coach has taken him all the way to world record status.