South Africa

The latest news coming out of Australia is that South Africa's cricketers were racially abused and called "kaffirs" and "kaffir boeties" during the first Test in Perth. This kind of behaviour is completely unnacceptable and should be dealt with severely by Cricket Australia. The current punishment of simply ejecting offenders from the ground, is insufficient and a mere slap on the wrist.

Any person heard shouting things like that should be thrown out the ground and face a charge of crimen injuria (or whatever the Australian legal equivalent is). I remember in 2002 when the Australians toured South Africa a spectator spat at Steve Waugh as he left the field, that incident led to a charge of crimen injuria being laid. Using the K-word is the verbal equivalent of spitting in a persons face and should be treated just as seriously.

This stuff has got to stop and CA needs to be more forceful in hammering this racist element out of the game.