Sports Minister Ngconde Balfour has remained mum on cricket's scrapping of racial quotas and has asked to meet United Cricket Board officials in Pretoria on Wednesday.
In a surprise policy shift the board announced on Sunday that quotas at national and senior provincial levels would fall away as they were no longer necessary.
Balfour was withholding comment until after the meeting, said his spokesman, Graham Abrahams.
Senior provincial teams were to have included at least four black players next season.
Quotas will be enforced at lower levels, from the provincial B teams down. At least half the members in these teams are expected to be players of colour and at least one a black African.
The Democratic Alliance has welcomed the scrapping of the quota system in cricket as "a step in the right direction" and has urged other sporting codes, such as rugby, to follow suit.
"Our national sportsmen and women compete against the best from other nations and only our best teams will be good enough," the DA's spokesman on sport and recreation, Donald Lee, said on Monday.
"South Africa's sports administrators should ensure that our best teams are sent into battle if our country has any dream of becoming a world force on the sporting field."
The DA criticised political interference in team selection and said senior provincial and national teams should be picked on "a single criterion - merit".
Asked for his reaction, former South African international cricketer Kepler Wessels was cautious.
"It all depends on the provincial cricket unions, many of whom have not had to worry about the issue of quotas for a while," Wessels said.
"We will have to wait and see how they go about it.
"The provincial unions will have to act in a mature and responsible fashion and I am sure the United Cricket Board will be monitoring the situation closely."
The national team was the focus of a bitter battle of wills in Australia earlier this year when, on the eve of the final test of a three-Test series, outside pressure compelled the team to include young Bolander Justin Ontong in Jacques Rudolph's place.