On Monday, 30 former Proteas - all players of colour - and five coaches expressed their support for both Ngidi and the BLM movement.
On Monday, 30 former Proteas – all players of colour – and five coaches expressed their support for both Ngidi and the BLM movement.
This led to highly-publicised criticism on social media by former Proteas Rudi Steyn, Pat Symcox and Boeta Dippenaar, who argued that “all lives matter”. He added: ” I speak for myself and those who share this belief that the end product of being racist is only self destruction and social change.
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