Khaya Majola (cricketer)
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Khaya Majola (17 May 1953 – 28 August 2000) was a South African cricket player and administrator. A black African,[lower-alpha 1] Majola played cricket during the apartheid-era in South Africa. Early in his playing career, he was given opportunities by the South African African Cricket Board (SAACB) to play alongside white players in exhibition matches, and to play overseas in England. He soon rejected further offers from the SAACB, feeling that the matches were token gestures, and that they were using black players as tools to overturn the sporting boycott of apartheid South Africa, and enable the national team, consisting solely of white players, to be re-admitted into international cricket. This decision meant that Majola played almost all of his cricket in the Howa Bowl between 1973 and 1991, a non-racial tournament organised by the South African Cricket Board of Control (SACBOC), who supported the boycott. Matches were typically played on matting wickets in poor conditions; they were not considered to be of first-class status at the time, but were subsequently added to the records.
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Full name | Khaya Majola | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1953-05-17)17 May 1953 Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, Union of South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 28 August 2000(2000-08-28) (aged 47) Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Left-arm orthodox spin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1973–1991 | Eastern Province | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: ESPNcricinfo, 19 April 2019 |
Majola was one of the leading players in the Howa Bowl; he played in more matches than any other player, scored the second-most runs, and took the fifth-most wickets. Although he described himself as a cricketer, not a politician, he continued to campaign against the tokenism of black cricketers, and lobbied against the rebel tours of South Africa. Both apartheid and the sporting boycott formally ended in 1991, and the same year, Majola joined the United Cricket Board upon its foundation. As the director of amateur cricket, he was responsible for setting up a national development programme, and sought to create pathways for black Africans to be able to play cricket at every level of the game. He died of colon cancer, aged 47, in 2000.