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Faf du Plessis on racism in South African cricket: 'All lives don't matter until black lives
matter'
Pretorius, van der Dussen, Kapp and Nortje also express their support for BLM movement

Firdose Moonda
17-Jul-2020
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Faf du Plessis, South Africa's Test and T20I captain until February this year, has admitted to having "got it wrong before" as
he, alongside Dwaine Pretorius, Rassie van der Dussen, Anrich Nortje and Marizanne Kapp, became the first members of
the white Afrikaans cricket community in South Africa to publicly voice their support for the Black Lives Matter (BLM)
movement, joining Lungi Ngidi and 32 former players and five current coaches of colour.

"In the last couple of months I have realized that we must choose our battles," du Plessis, who along with Pretorius has
indicated he will take a knee during the 3TC exhibition game on July 18, wrote in an Instagram post on Friday. "We are
surrounded by many injustices in our country that require urgent attention and action to fix them. If we wait only for the ones
that attack us personally, we will always live for 'my way vs your way' and that way leads us nowhere.

"So I've remained silent, with the intent to listen, but not respond. Slowing down my point of view, but quicker to hear the pain
of someone else. I knew that words would be lacking and that my understanding is not close to where it needs to be.

I acknowledge that South Africa is still hugely divided by racism and it is my personal
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