On the racial slur issue: you need to take into context what was happening with a certain section of the crowd(Pakistani supporters) just prior to the incident: Gibbs was fielding down on the boundary, and was copping some seriously racist flak from them. I mean, he was referred to by the dreaded K-word, and some idiots were even making monkey calls at him- obviously not because he is of mixed( both African and European) descent, or was it? Shortly before, Paul Harris was also sworn at, and shortly afterwards, Makhaya Ntini was actually smacked on the head by a Pakistan flag- nice day at the cricket, isn`t it? In fact, that section of the crowd got so out of hand, 7 of them were ejected by the security staff- one actually ended up getting into a fist-fight with a police officer, and spent the evening cooling off in jail.
What Gibbs actually said was(with some editing of swearwords, but you get the idea): "Bunch of fkn animals, they should go back to the fkn zoo, bunch of fkn Pakistani`s." This was obviously, as stated, an aside intended for his teammates only. Should have ended right there, except for the Pakistani team manager going off to make an official complaint, stating that Gibbs was racially abusing his team members- what a crock of shite. But of course, the limp-wristed ICC would generally see a racist behind every rock nowadays, since Pakistan are calling all the shots in world cricket nowadays, what with them overturning drug bans, ending elite umpires` careers etc.
FFS, current match referee Chris Broad is out of contract with the ICC at the end of this series, and apparently the chances of his contract being renewed is quite low, what with him having referred several sub-continent chuckers for review of their actions. He was always going to find Gibbs guilty, no matter what happened. Look even at poor umpire Billy Doctrove- he gave only 1 decision, either way, for the duration of the Test- scared stiff after the forfeited Test probably. I shudder to think where all of this will end.
Anyway, back to the cricket- well done to SA, although some questions still remain- 53/3 top-order collapse in the 1st innings, 5 dropped catches in the 2nd, yet another wagging tail- these issues were evident against Australia in Oz and at home, and have plagued the side since then. Fortunately, in Prince and Amla, we seem to have at last found some stability in the middle order to bat with Kallis, and in Harris we have found a spinner worthy of the name- at least some issues are being addressed.