From being scouted at Dale College to carrying tackle bags and being told to learn Afrikaans, Malwande Mhamhe's rugby dreams turned sour LET'S talk about our national rugby team and its inability to mirror the racial demographics of South Africa.I am one of many young black rugby players awarded a professional rugby contract on merit. Mine was from a Gauteng Super rugby franchise.I signed the deal with the hope of playing top-level rugby and realising my true potential.However, my dreams turned sour when I realised I would be another black statistic who spends most of his contract warming the bench and carrying tackle bags.My talents were suffocated as a result of limited opportunity and exclusion from team sheets.At first I was told I "need to learn Afrikaans if I want to further my career at this union".Inevitably, if there are two players of similar ability, the coach would always choose the white guy: he knows how to get the best out of the white guy, because he can identify with him. I could sense a general cynicism about my presence from teammates and a covert "Swart seun, gaan sokker speel" attitude from the coaching staff.Before 1994, rugby was the ultimate symbol of oppression, and was championed by its predominantly Afrikaans administrators. Now, it's almost as if these administrators have sworn to maintain an unalterable doctrine in order to perpetuate an endless guardianship of this system .What I and many others like myself seek to do is nothing less than to shift the foundations upon which the South African rugby system is built - foundations of white supremacy...