C aptain of the South African cricket team, Temba Bavuma, said, “I have been called a lot of names in my life, some names hurt – choker, quota, bauna (dwarf). But the name I’ve been called the most is Temba. My grandma named me Temba because it means “hope”, hope, for our community.”

South Africa has a complex racial history in sports. For decades under apartheid, the country’s sport was segregated by law and policy. Black players were excluded from international games.

The sporting boycott that isolated South Africa from the 1970s was one of the most powerful global responses to apartheid. It sent a strong message that racial injustice would not be tolerated. Players and teams who ignored this ban did so at a heavy cost. So much so that the backlash in the West Indies to a rebel

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