Black pupil turned away from trials

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A 17-year-old Wagpos Hoërskool, Brits, pupil claims she was turned away from hockey trials in Rustenburg because she was black.

Rego Modise, a Grade 11 pupil at the North West school, said she persuaded her parents to drive her to Hoërskool Grenswag for Bokkie Week trials after being given approval by her coach.

All seemed well when she was allowed to register after producing her birth certificate and paying a R30 fee. But everything changed when she and two white pupils later met coach Louis Koen, who inquired who had sent them.

Modise said yesterday: "I told him I was sent by my coach. He then asked me: 'Didn't they tell you anything else?' and I said no. Then he told me that Bokkie Week was for white kids only."

Neither Koen nor Wagpos principal Daan Neethling could be reached for comment yesterday.

Modise said she felt "humiliated" because her coach had given her the go-ahead despite there being an apparent brief sent to schools.

The Rev Peter Stans, CEO of Afrikaner Volskeie Sport, the organisers of the Bokkie Week, said Modise had "definitely" not been invited for trials.

"We work exclusively by invitation only," said Stans.

He said the week was for "Afrikaner" children only.

But Modise's school has distanced itself from Koen's statement.

Modise said: "I'm the only black girl in either our first and second teams. I only joined Wagpos last year, and I love playing hockey, even though I had never played it until I moved there."

Stans admitted no player of a different race had ever attended Bokkie Week, saying: "We're not against anybody, we are [of Afrikaner descent]," he said.

The family yesterday said they were considering their options.

Asked how she thought the South African women's hockey team would do at the London Olympics, Modise said: "I'll be watching the Olympics. I know Australia will win, but I'm holding thumbs for RSA."
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Sheezz.

I just need to say that the teacher that sent this child knowing about this camp should be whipped for being a coward.

Why not just report the camp. Why send a child to be trurned away. And I'm sure he/she knew that it would happen.
 
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Wow! That's just what it feels like when a white person applies for a job!
No, this kind of discrimination should not be allowed, but what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
I know two wrongs don't make a right, but our racist government is the root of these problems.
 
Mila said:
Sheezz.

I just need to say that the teacher that sent this child knowing about this camp should be whipped for being a coward.

Why not just report the camp. Why send a child to be trurned away. And I'm sure he/she knew that it would happen.
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Where does it say the girl's coach knew that the school was racist?
 
Soulcode said:
Wow! That's just what it feels like when a white person applies for a job!
No, this kind of discrimination should not be allowed, but what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
I know two wrongs don't make a right, but our racist government is the root of these problems.
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/facepalm

Are you SERIOUSLY saying the one justifies the other? Even if it did, there would still be equal representation in the sports team.
 
Soulcode said:
Wow! That's just what it feels like when a white person applies for a job!
No, this kind of discrimination should not be allowed, but what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
I know two wrongs don't make a right, but our racist government is the root of these problems.
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brokenrecord.jpg
 
Ninja'd said:
They don't allow souties too.
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Well souties is die Vyand!! What were you thinking.

Fudzy said:
Where does it say the girl's coach knew that the school was racist?
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Seems to be a well know fact that they do this.
The Rev Peter Stans, CEO of Afrikaner Volskeie Sport, the organisers of the Bokkie Week, said Modise had "definitely" not been invited for trials.
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You tell me a coach did not think anything when he saw who was the organisers.?

Not saying the school is right. Just saying the responible adult did not behave very responsible.

I played sport. Trials is not open for everyone to drop in. Only the best is sent or you are invited.
 
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Yup, with a name like "Afrikaner Volkseie Sport", organised by a reverend nogal? How stupid must that coach be not to know what's going on there?
 
Mila said:
Sheezz.

I just need to say that the teacher that sent this child knowing about this camp should be whipped for being a coward.

Why not just report the camp. Why send a child to be trurned away. And I'm sure he/she knew that it would happen.
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Yep, the kid was let down by both the coach and her parents I think. We should be protecting kids from such crap.

But thats not to say the Afrikaner-whatever-they-call-themselves, do not have a right to do such an event though...
 
TJ99 said:
Yup, with a name like "Afrikaner Volkseie Sport", organised by a reverend nogal? How stupid must that coach be not to know what's going on there.
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He should have at least phoned before sending that poor child there.
 
Soulcode said:
Wow! That's just what it feels like when a white person applies for a job!
No, this kind of discrimination should not be allowed, but what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
I know two wrongs don't make a right, but our racist government is the root of these problems.
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/quadruple facepalm

Thanks for playing.
 
Soulcode said:
Wow! That's just what it feels like when a white person applies for a job!
No, this kind of discrimination should not be allowed, but what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
I know two wrongs don't make a right, but our racist government is the root of these problems.
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As long as we are saying and eye for an eye racism and discrimination will never end. :sick:
 
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