The Quota System In Foul Play: What's Wrong With Sport

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In Foul Play: What’s Wrong with Sport, Joe Humphreys lists numerous reasons as to why sport is detrimental to society. His reasons range from sport being discriminatory all the way to sport promoting a decline into gang culture. While I disagree with Humphreys’ proclamation that sport is detrimental to society, there are unquestionably some components of sport which are detrimental to society, one of those components being the quota system.

The quota system was introduced in South Africa after the fall of Apartheid in order to bring “players of colour” into more areas of sport in the country. When this system was first introduced it was opposed and today there is a move to make the quota system more rigid in order to have more black players in the international cricket team.

For me this is a ludicrous concept that has numerous short fallings and will never be able to operate effectively. Aside from the quota system being completely immoral, it is also unsustainable and unable to yield any positive results.

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