This article explores and unpacks the public debate on the ethics of applying selection quotas to South African international sport sides to achieve transformation, with special attention to cricket and rugby, the Proteas and Springboks respectively. I claim that for quotas to be morally called for, the racial transformation they are in service of must be morally required. Following an earlier article of mine on the subject of transformation in South African sport, I briefly reject two manifestations of the goal of having the sides’ racial demographics match those of the country as a whole, and proceed to defend and develop two different transformational requirements: the ending of ongoing racial bias and the provision of equality of opportunity. I argue that while there may be a place for alternative forms of affirmative selection, the case for rigid quotas is marginal at best. While I do not argue for the claim here, it neither follows from this, nor do I believe, that the use of quotas is morally wrong. I argue only that the case for them is not particularly strong and depends, particularly, on the extent to which ongoing racial bias in selection persists.

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南非体育选择配额的伦理

本文探讨并展开了关于将选择配额应用于南非国际体育方面以实现转型的伦理学的公开辩论，尤其要分别关注板球和橄榄球，普罗蒂亚斯和跳羚。我声称，要从道德上要求配额，必须在道德上要求其服务于种族的转变。在我之前关于南非体育变革主题的文章之后，我简短地拒绝了以下两种表现形式，即使双方的种族人口统计数据与整个国家的种族特征相匹配，并捍卫和发展两种不同的转变要求：消除持续存在的种族偏见并提供机会均等。我认为，尽管可能存在其他形式的肯定选择的地方，严格的配额充其量是微不足道的。尽管我在这里不主张主张，但也不能因此得出结论，也不认为使用配额在道德上是错误的。我只争辩说，他们的情况并不是特别牢固，尤其取决于选择过程中种族歧视持续存在的程度。