Branded a rebel: Cricket's forgotten men

This is the man?

Always remember seeing a Botham interview when he was asked why he didnt tour South Africa. He replied that he would never have been able to look Viv richards and Joel Garner in the eye again. Sometimes, you just cannot take the money..

I firmly believe the rebel tours helped the International Comunity refocus on the abnormal plague that was apartheid.
You will recall in 1964, for the 18th Olympiad in Tokyo, South africa were banned for not renouncing apartheid and can you believe in our lifetime, only in 1990....only in 1990, did apartheid fall. Many of us will have children older than the fall of apartheid.
When I speak to my children about diversity, I always emphasise about how others are viewed.
The West indian tours would have been seen poorly as did the Sri Lankans and my own English team. I think they all went for the money but I believe this drastic moved helped to reignite the debate and change. The tours started with England in 82 and ended with said in 1990 when apartheid fell.
I know, for fact, young whites were asking questions especially when they started to admiring players like Stephenson who told a story of a young white boy offering him a bottle of coke (or I think it was Stephenson).
Many were lost to these tours including one of my favourites Richard Austin.
The question is, had Botham not been so financially secured would he have gone?
In the case he decided not to go, as he did, it should have been about the condemnation of a regime that promotes supremacy, injustice, hate, anathema divides and everything that is bad about the human race.
We let South Africa get away with it far too easily and we have invaded for less in the past. I feel ashamed the International community just let this happen. 1990? 

Guys what are your views on these events?

The Rand was an international Currency !  :-[