Basil D'Oliveira 80

[Pevenseagull]

Never bothered with the RIP threads before but anyone who doesn't know about this great sportsman and great man should at least read a meaty obituary if not one of his biogs.

RIP Dolly

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

Not a cricket fan but was one of the few cricketers I had heard of.

 

[fisons]

The most important cricketer of the second half of the twentieth century. As a Cape Coloured arriving in England to play for the first time he was afraid to get on the train at Paddington because he was looking for the non-whites carriage. Not long after he was playing for England. He was a high class cricketer but a great man. RIP Dolly

 

[Northstander]

A very interesting story and more frustrating when you go to SA with the belief Apartheid is gone, and you find they "still" segregate people into their race ie: Cape Coloured, Zulu, Kausers (Spelling) and White South Africans.

I had an interesting conversation with some Cape Coloureds and asking where were they born? Cape Town...so to me you're South African rather than a Cape Coloured?