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Racial quotas in South Africa has been a contentious issue. In 1994 following the deconstruction of apartheid policies, South African sports organising bodies introduced racial quotas to improve the number of black and Coloured players on South African representative teams.

Rugby union
In 2015, prior to the 2015 Rugby World Cup, the South Africa national rugby union team stated that they would be aiming to have at least seven non-white players with at least two black Africans. They then followed up with an aim that the national team by the 2019 Rugby World Cup would be at least 50% black.

Cricket
In cricket, Cricket South Africa imposed a quota in that each domestic cricket team had to be comprised of six non-white players including at least three black Africans. The policy has been criticized by other cricketers including Afrikaner Kevin Pietersen, who left South Africa because he felt that the quotas were limiting his opportunities as "players of colour" were given opportunities ahead of him. Between 1999 and 2007, the national team had a racial quota requiring four non-white players be on the field at any time. In 2007, quotas were abolished. However in 2016, the domestic policy was re-adopted for the national team except with only two black Africans required to fulfil the quota.