There are hearings but is anyone acting? Re-making South African cricket, or following on?

In speaking to Black cricketers who played during the apartheid era, there is always the narrative of missed opportunities. Many hold the view that there were many Basil D'Oliveiras, the so-called 'Coloured' cricketer from the Cape who went on to represent the English national team. The success of Black cricketers in the post-apartheid period is constantly measured by what was lost by the generations before. There was a time not too far off when the Proteas' dressing room was a hostile place for those not White. The crescendo of voices calling for the inclusion of Black people (African, 'Coloured', and Indian) in cricket paved the way for some Black players to get selected for the team and for others to be involved as managers, selectors, coaches, and support staff. A quarter-century into the post-apartheid period, Black people are in the majority at most levels of the game but that is no longer the bar. There are new challenges for those defined as 'Indian' and 'Coloured'. This chapter examines the unravelling of 'Black' and new contestations over who should run and play the game in the context of rising racial nationalism, and what impact this 'tyranny of numbers' will have on the trajectory of cricket in South Africa. All of these issues have been brought into the open with the Black Lives Matter movement sweeping the world in 2020.