By Martin Gough
Exclusive for BBC Sport in South Africa
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South Africa will name three non-white players in their team to take on Bangladesh on Saturday as a result of an understanding between the country's
cricket board and its government.
BBC Sport believes the policy applies to all three preliminary round games against "minor" nations Kenya, Bangladesh and Canada.
There has been pressure on the United Cricket Board of South Africa (UCB) to reinstate race quotas, scrapped just four months ago at provincial level.
Last year, UCB president Percy Sonn overruled the selectors' XI for the third Test against Australia in Sydney, and black all-rounder Justin Ontong replaced Jacques Rudolph as a result.
And after government pressure, the UCB agreed to select five "players of colour" in the 15-man World Cup squad.
A spokesman for the South African team told BBC Sport that there was no hard and fast rule over team selection in the tournament.
Our objective is to make transformation work, which is an objective the cricket fraternity in South Africa share
South Africa selector Omar Henry
But he said that the three-man policy "would be preferable", depending on injuries and form.
However, chief of selectors Omar Henry insisted the side was being rotated for other reasons.
"When we selected the 15 the objective was to qualify for the second round, and to win it, and that the best way to do that would be to make use of all of the players" Henry said.
"Our objective is to make transformation work, which is an objective the cricket fraternity in South Africa share.
"We have got to make the effort, but not to the detriment of our success as a cricket nation."
South Africa did replace Allan Donald with Charl Langeveldt for last Wednesday's 10-wicket win over Kenya.
Donald had struggled in the side's opening loss to West Indies, and was again expensive in Sunday's nine-wicket defeat by New Zealand.
But former national coach Bob Woolmer described the decision to omit him against Kenya as "baffling" in a newspaper column on Thursday, saying the out-of-form fast bowler "thrives on bowling".
For his part, captain Shaun Pollock explained after that match: "History shows that Donald is better if he bowls in the middle but this is the route the selectors decided to go."