How do South Africans view Basil D'Oliveira?

June 1966: Basil D'Oliveira, who had moved to England from his native South Africa six years earlier, makes his Test debut. Jan 26, 1967: South Africa's interior minister, Peter le Roux, warns England that D'Oliveira would not be admitted to the country if chosen for the following year's tour. read more

His career stats are reasonably good rather than brilliant – but his international career started when he was in his late 30s because people of colour in South Africa were not meant to be cricket stars, and he was only able to make it into the big time when he moved to the UK. read more

Basil Lewis D'Oliveira CBE OIS (4 October 1931 – 19 November 2011) was an England international cricketer of South African Cape Coloured background, whose potential selection by England for the scheduled 1968–69 tour of apartheid-era South Africa caused the D'Oliveira affair. read more