God help me - the Test Cricket thread

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Things will only change if there is a bit common sense and compromise from both sides, you want to see the best cricketers playing but there is the political game that needs to be played first and a system setup in SA that allows the best talent to rise to the top not dependent on what colour you skin is and you have to set up the structures that provide equality to all.

Any of us with relatives in SA, Zimbabwe, Tanzania or similar have heard the stories and how Apartheid still exists but just inverted. The new 'quota' laws infiltrating Africa are used by the corrupt to basically sequester farm land and commercial properties without compensation, often with no intent to continue the enterprise.

I know people who held significant farm land, housing, servicing and employing about 50 locals on the property to manage and work the farm. In total with families that was about 300 people living and working within the farm boundary. Corrupt bureaucrats / officials basically used government channels to assert the workers were 'slave labour', kicked the owners off the land, sacked and evicted all the staff leaving them jobless and homeless, then broke up the homes and village amenities to sell off the chattels, hardware and furniture pilfering any commercial stock the traders held in the process, it just disappeared and nobody knows. Then as a final and even bigger insult, the property titles of 'some worthless land' were on-sold for a pittance to what was assumed to be a political insider. All with no compensation offered to any of the title owners. The farm is left to degrade, the land is no longer worked, the services have collapsed. Basic grain and feed which came off the farm, have now been replaced with imports, you guessed it from a company owned by another politician. This is a business that had operated for almost 50 years and employed several generations of locals while providing free lease land to the employee families which they had developed into family homes, small trading shops like a bakery and butcher, and village amenities like a medical clinic and pre-school. All gone and now they all get zero welfare!