This paper focuses on charges of match-fixing in April 2001 by Indian police against Hansie Cronje, cricket captain of South Africa, and the Commission of Inquiry that followed in order to probe the construction and persistence of race stereotypes in South Africa. It examines the historic construction of boundaries between Indians and Whites, their reactions to Hansiegate and the implications for the 'rainbow nation' project. White prejudices against Indians during this affair are documented and it is argued that these reveal the fragmented …