the interval of a 'Whites only ’ National Football League fixture? Where else? We ask in all seriousness !

THE REASONS - In the face of such official control to prohibit mixed sport, state approval of the so-called 'multi-nationals' is a paradox And why do those of us who propagate non-racialism in sport oppose the multi-nationals? Our reasons are clear and concise:

* The purpose o f such meets is stark and sinister for it is intended to persuade the unsuspecting outside this country into believing that apartheid does not affect sport. How untrue!

* inter-race activity at any level is abhorrent for it underscores and perpetuates the concept o f race. Integrated, non-racial sport and NOT inter-race sport is the principle to which we subscribe.

SHARP DIFFERENCE* So long as state-provided facilities and sports sponsorship favour the privileged whites

so exclusively as in South Africa, the multi-nationals w ill only serve to emphasise the sharp difference in standards between blacks and whites — a cornerstone to 'prove' Black mediocrity!

* Even if the multi-nationals were intended remotely, to display the White hand of friendship, that hand is being offered at a level wholly unacceptable to protagonists o f non-racialism. For ours is a plea to swim, play golf, cricket, soccer, baseball, table- tennis, tennis, hockey, basketball, softball, netball, rugby with all those who love these games for their own sake — in public parks where this is permitted on sports fields, in stadia, pools and pitches — at all levels, including especially the club level. Colour, as the basis for such participation is wholly unacceptable and much too artificial.

HONORARY WHITES — We would rather deny ourselves the doubtful 'distinction' of part­icipating in multi-nationals, and being considered honorary Whites for a few days or a week, so long as we suffer, for the rest o f the year the indignity o f being contained, confined, con­trolled and contaminated by the shackles of group areas, separate development, an official state sports policy and the fu ll gambut o f racial legislation under which we have suffered since 1652.'

REGISTERED SPORTS BODIES IN SOUTH AFRICA AND INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS

According to a statement made in Parliament by the South African Minister of Sport and Recreat­ion on 4 May 1973 in reply to e question, there are 72 registered sports bodies in South Africa.Of these, the following tA are affiliated to the international body for such sp o rt:

Aero Club, Archery, Athletics, Badminton, Basketball, Billiards and Snooker, Body Build­ing, Women's Bowls, Men's Bowls, Casting (Angling), Croquet, Cycling, Women's Cricket, Clay Pigeon Shooting, Equestrian Sport, Fencing, Freshwater Angling, Football, Game Fish Angling, Men's Golf, Women's Golf, Gymnastics, Men's Hockey, Women's Hockey,Ice Skating, Karate, Light Tackle Angling, Life Saving, Netball, Powerboating, Pentathlon, Pistol Shooting, Paraplegic Sport, Rock-and-Surf Angling, Rugby, Roller Skating, Rowing, Surf Riding, Ski Boat Angling, Surf Life Saving, Squash Rackets, Softball, Swimming,Small Bore Shooting, Tennis, Tug-of-war, Trampolining, Tenpin Bowling, Under-water Sport, Waterskiing, Weight Lifting, Wrestling, Yachting, Ocean Yacht Racing.

the following are not affiliated to the international body:Baseball, Men's Cricket, Canoeing, Judo, Roller Skate Hockey, Skiing, Table Tennis, Tenniquoits, Volleyball, Boxing.

In respect of the following, there is no international body:A ir Rifle Shooting, Blind Bowling,Gymkhana, Jukskei, Korfbal, Mountaineering,Polo, Shooting.

In the case of the following sports bodies affiliated to international bodies. South Africans may compete as a team:

Basketball, V\bmen's Cricket, Men:s Hockey, Womenis Hockey, Netball, Rugby,Rowing, Softball, Tug-of-war, Ocean Yacht Racing.

In the case o f the following. South Africans can compete as individuals only:

Aero Club, Archery, Badminton, Billiards and Snooker, Ladies' Bowls, Men's Bowls, Casting, Croquet, Clay Pigeon Shooting, Body Building, Equestrian Sport, Fencing,Fresh Water Angling, Game Fish Angling, Men's Golf, Women's Golf, Gymnastics,Ice Skating, Light Tackle Angling, Powerboating, Under-water Sport, Waterskiing, Pentathlon, Pistol Shooting, Paraplegic Sport, Rock-and-Surf Angling, Roller Skating, Surf Riding, Ski Boat Angling, Surf Life Saving, Squash Rackets, Swimming, Small Bore Shooting, Tennis, Trampolining, Tenpin Bowling, Yachting.

Mr. Abraham Ordia, President of the Supreme Council o f Sport in Africa at the Seminar on Africa held at UNESCO headquarters in Paris from April 28 to May 2nd 1975 said:-

'Racial discrimination and segregation have retarded the development of white sport and black sport. Both would 1 have benefitted if competition was open to all, regardless of race and colour. Aparthei_d in sport is tragic in its denial of human dignity, in its enforced waste of human talent and possibilities....All the anti-aparthejd elements of the world — the United Nations, the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and the Supreme Council for Sport in Africa (SCSA) — have therefore called for a total isolation of South Africa. In spite of her expulsion from the Olympic Movement, some member countries, for reasons other than sport, continue, in defiance of world opinion, to give that country sporting competitions, thus consolidat- ing its apartheid policy.

Successes in isolation of South Africa from International Sport

Nevertheless, the battle is not lost. Below is South Africa's record in international sport:

1956 South Africa's all white Table Tennis Union expelled by International Table Tennis Federation, A ffilia tion given to non-racial Table Tennis Association. South African government has persistently refused passports to non-racial teams entered for World Championships from 1956 until 1974.

1963 South Africa barred from Tokyo Olympics in 1964 because stipulated conditions not fulfilled.

1964 South Africa suspended from world football by International Football Federation (FIFA)

1964 South Africa barred from international comoetition by World Fencing Federation.F967 Mexico refuses visa to South African team for Mini-Olympics.1968 Mexico refuses to invite South Africa to Olympics, International Olympic Committee

(IOC) Executive Board confirms this decision by withdrawing invitation.1968 South Africa expelled from world boxing by International Amateur Boxing Association

(AIBA)1968 Cricket tour of South Africa by British team cancelled by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)1969 Hungary refuses visas to South African team for World Pentathlon Championships.1969 International Judo Federation refuses South Africa membership.1970 British Government requests cancellation o f cricket tour by an all white South African

team. MCC cancels tour.1970 South African team barred from World Netball Championships.1970 South African team barred from World Gymnastics Championships in Yugoslavia.1970 South Africa suspended from Davis Cup following boycotts by most European countries

and demonstrations in Norway, Sweden and Britain.1970 South Africa expelled from Olympic Movement by International Olympic Committee

(IOC)1970 South Africa barred from World Cycling Championships, and expelled by International

Cycling Federation.1970 South Africa barred from International athletics competitions by International Amateur

Athletics Federation (lAAF).1970 Following countries withdraw from South African Games after accepting invitations ;

United States of America, Belgium, Italy and Federal Republic of Germany.1970 Australia suspends athletic relations with South Africa.1970 South Africa suspended from World Wrestling by International Amateur Wrestling

Federation (FI LA)1970 South Africa barred from World Softball Championships in Japan.1972 South Africa re-admitted to Davis Cup in Latin American Zone.1972 South Africa non-starter at Munich Olympics and Southern Rhodesia barred.1973 Argentine Government bans all sports contact w ith South Africa, includingDavis Cup

match.1973 Brazil Government bans Davis Cup match on Brazilian territory.1973 New Zealand Government forces cancellation of rugby tour of an all-white South

African team.1973 South Africa expelled from World Swimming by the International Swimming

Federation (FINA).1973 New Zealand Government decides to refuse entry to South African Women's team

for Federation Cup (Lawn Tennis).1973 President o f International Football Federation (FIFA) forced to back down and

reverse decision taken by FIFA Executive Committee to l if t South Africa's suspension to allow football matches at South African Games Prior to reversal o f decision both Brazil and West Germany had been forced to withdraw their teams.

1973 Australian Government decides to refuse all visas, including transit visas, to all South African sportsmen belonging to racial sports organizations.

1973 Supreme Council for Sport in Africa repeats call for expulsion of all racist South African organizations from international sports federations and decides to grant

affiliation to non-racial organizations which apply for membership of African sports confederations.

1973 The South African Amateur Swimming Federation (non-racial) is given full member­ship o f the African Swimming Confederation.

1974 Bulgaria barred South Africa's entry in World Gymnastics Championships in Varna.1974 India refused to play South Africa in finals in the Davis Cup (Lawn Tennis)1975 The Canadian Olympic Committee withdrew its invitation to South Africa to part­

icipate in its 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal.1975 The Mexican Government refused its Tennis team to play South Africa in the Davis

Cup Competition.1975 The Mexican Government debarred South Africa's Hewitt and Frew Macmillan to

participate in a tennis championship in Mexico.1975 The International Netball Association debarred South Africa from taking part in

its championships.

Leslie Sehume, of the Committee for Fairness in Sport accompanied by W. Wolmarans travelled to New Zealand, where Sehume appeared before Television.

Now read what he had said to TV audience to questions put to him by Richard Cote :

COTE Apartheid in sport: It's clearly the issue that's caused more heartache and(Interviewer) discussion in recent years than almost anything else in New Zealand. And

it looks like being a major issue in the elections this year, especially with the A ll Blacks scheduled to go to South Africa next year. We have with us tonight, Trevor Richards of HART, whose views on the subject are well known, and Leslie Sehume, the sports editor for a black newspaper in Johannesburg and an executive member of the Committee for Fairness in Sport. Well, let's begin, Mr, Sehume, by asking what it is you and other members of your committee are working for.

SEHUME Well, we have set up this Committee to try and indicate to people insideSouth Africa and outside South Africa about the double standards that have been practised by various people, against the progress of sport in South Africa.

COTE In what way do you think these double standards have been practised?

SEHUME Well, in this way — that there is a progress going on in South Africa at themoment, which is a good thing for the country, but a lot of people don't see it as being a sufficient progress.

COTE What have you got against the anti-apartheid movement then?

SEHUME Well, actually, I must put it quite clear, that I myself am against apartheid.I do believe that people in South Africa can live side by side w ithout problems.

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But I also want to be clear about one thing that you cannot bring about a change overnight There are changes that have taken place — they are gradual.

Your committee is called 'Fairness in Sport'. What do you consider to be fairness in sport?

Well by giving everybody equal opportunity to play sport. That is what we stand for.

But surely that is what the anti-apartheid movement and HART are after too.

Yes — well this is the point. The difference about it is the manner of approach. We feel that people should have dialogue — people should comm­unicate. And that you cannot bring about a change through isolation, or by remote control.

You see, there is a New Zealand sporting team, the A ll Blacks, scheduled next year to go to South Africa and under the present system, they would play the Springboks, what many would consider to be a white South African team. Now are you in favour of this? Would you be in favour of a merit- selected team?

I'm in favour of a merit-selected team and if in fact the A ll Blacks go to South Africa next year, the chances are they w ill play a merit-selected side, they w ill also play the Springboks and they w ill also play an A ll Black team, because these teams do exist inside South Africa at the moment.

Mr. Richards, what's your reaction to this?

On the question of changes taking place in South Africa, I would agree that there are changes, but fundamentally they are changes for the worse. Now you talk about a gradual approach which would hopefully you would say, see the end o f apartheid in sport. And yet the most recent statement we have had from the South African Minister of Sport, and I think if anyone is an authority on how sport is to be run in South Africa, it is the South African Minister o f Sport himself, because he controls sport, and the latest statement from him indicates quite clearly that apartheid w ill remain at all levels and I would just like to quote him directly so as there can be no confusion. He said a couple of months ago: 'The selection of the special invitation team (this was the team to play against the French) did not mean that there would be any change in Government policy in apartheid in sport at club, provincial or national levels. There w ill be no mixed trials before selection of the teams and neither would be considered a merit or representative side o f South Africa. It also does not prejudice selection o f a white Springbok team.' Now this isn't my own version of what the South African Government policy is — that is what the South African Government themselves have said. There w ill be no change — apartheid in sport w ill remain at a club, at a provincial and at a national level.And it seems very clear to us that the only reason that the South African Govern­ment w ill allow an 'invitation' multi-racial side, not selected on merit, not selected on the basis o f mixed trials, but the only reason that w ill allow a team

of this nature to play against the touring French side, and we are told, the touring A ll Black side, next year, is because o f pressure from the International community. The French made it quite clear that they would not tour South Africa unless they could play against a multi-racial side. South Africa, the South African Government, responded by saying 'yes, you can play against a m ulti­racial side, but this is not a side, which is a South African side, it is not a side which is selected on merit and it w ill in no way prejudice apartheid in sport at club, provincial or national level'. So I think if we take it straight from the mouth of the South African Minister of Sport himself, there has been change, the only time there looks as if there w ill be a change in South Africa is when the boycott has been applied and I think we can look at a number of instances.In 1960, for example, we sent a New Zealand team to South Africa without Maoris. In 1967 we received an invitation to send another team to South Africa without Maoris. We refused and in 1970 we were allowed to send Maoris. Now that would seem to be a clear indication of the effect of the boycott.I th ink the second example, and perhaps the most striking example, is the fact that the Australian Cricket Board of Control refused to allow the Australian team to tour South Africa this year, and for the first time we have, if one can go by what one reads in South African newspapers, and I've got no reason to doubt them, that non-racial sports administrators in cricket in South Africa and the whites only South African cricket association are now getting together for the first time, and the reason why they are getting together is because they have been boycotted and they have been isolated. They want their international sporting contacts, they are being told by the world that the only way they can get it is fo r there to be genuine multi-racial sport at all levels in South Africa and they are now coming to the point where they are saying — white sportsmen in South Africa are saying — if the price we have to pay for our continued part­icipation in international sport is multi-racialism in our own sport, well then, let's have it. And we never had anything like that before the boycotts were applied.

COTE Mr. Sehume?

SEHUME Well actually, the point is your facts are correct, to an extent, but I would liketo say to you that sports administrators themselves, blacks and white in South Africa, have been speaking since 1958/59. And right here, I have organisations — by the way, I am speaking for 70 per cent of the population of South Africa — these being Africans - let's be very clear about that - blacks — and when I say blacks in South Africa, I mean Africans — I would like to show you letters of credentials here, which I w ill just read out, of the major organisations that we have in South A fr ic a :- the South African Rugby Football Federation, this is a coloured rugby side, I mean association, national association — and the president is a man called Loriston - if anybody would like to have a look at it. There is also the South African Olympic and National Games Federation, whose President isThabed I'm also a committee member, an executive committee member o f this organisation. That's black — African and coloured. This is the South African Body Building and Body Beauty Queens Association, which has my name on it, because I happen to be Secretary as well as Treasurer fo r that organisation. This IS completely African, although the Constitution is non-racial. This is the National Professional Soccer League, which is the professional African League in South Africa w ith 16 teams and play from February until December.

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You say you speak for 70,000 people?

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But do you speak for any of the non-racial organisations?

In fact, I cannot claim to speak on their behalf, but I'm speaking for sport in general and 70 per cent o f the population.

Because many of the leaders o f the non-racial sports groups have actually attacked you and criticized you for your viewpoints.

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Yes I realize that, but you see those are the m inority ■ majority black people o f South Africa.

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Could I just come in here? I'm rather disturbed when you say you're speak­ing for the majority of black South African people. Because you w ill recall that when you were in Britain last year you had a debate against Peter Hain, whose in the anti-apartheid movement there. And after that debate, reports of it were printed in South African newspapers and the comments that you made on that programme were disowned by your own newspaper — editorially. If we leave the non-racial sports administrators aside for a moment, we found a number o f black Africans speaking out against the sorts of things that you'd said. For example Mr. Joe Subiya, a leading African sports administrator said, and I quote: 'I t shocked me to hear Sehume's irresponsible statements. He owes us an apology on landing back at the airport.' Mr. Beck Morolo, the president o f the Blacks only South African Football Association — condemned the statements that you made. And we find black urban councillors in Soweto condemning the statements that you made on that programme and the sorts of things that you have been saying here now. For example: Mr. Richard Nponga, an urban councillor, an African, said quote, 'Sehume is a blue-eyed boy of the whites It is an insult to blacks to say they would stone Peter Hain' (as you said Peter Hain would be stoned if he entered Soweto) and indeed Norman Middleton, who is president of the non-racial Soccer Federation, said that he felt after listening to the debate and judging the reaction in South Africa that it would be you that would be stoned out o f Soweto, that Peter Hain would be welcomed as a hero. So I would dispute very strongly your claim to represent black South African sportsmen, because I've quoted a few here, who have con­demned what you said. Your own newspaper, which is a pretty conservative newspaper, editorially condemned what you said. And I would very much say that you do not represent the views of black South African sportsmen.

Now just let me take down what you said point by point. Joe Subiya was for many years the vice-president o f the South African Bantu Football Association, which no longer exists — the name does not exist any more.

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He's out of football at the moment, because the people I'm representing —I have their credentials right in my pocket. The other gentleman. Beck Morolo was the president o f the South African Bantu Football Association up to 1970, October He's out o f football. You talk of a man, Richard Nponga — he's a businessman in South Africa. He has very little .to do with sport at the moment. So far as Mr. Middleton is concerned — he belongs to the South African Soccer Federation, which is a m inority group in South Africa. The South African National Football Association, one o f whose credentials I have here has 350,000 registered members. It is the largest thing that has ever happened in South Africa right now. It is the mother organ­isation of the National Professional Soccer League, which letter I just prod­uced just now. That has 16 teams. And quite recently, in fact for the first two weeks, we have had multi-racial football at club level, where black football club called Kaiser Chiefs, played in a final with a white football club in Johannesburg, known as Hellenics. So I can only say that I speak for black sportsmen who are interested in progress, black sportsmen who want to see themselves playing against any club in this world. And in fact they cannot understand the reason that, at the moment, when they have an opportunity to be able to play sport in South Africa despite the pressures, I mean you can say yes, in spite of the pressures — yes, but they are getting an opportunity right now to be able to play — they would like progress. They feel they are not responsible for what is going on inside South Africa. And indeed one of the things I have been asked to speak to people here in New Zealand about, is to try and create a climate whereby black sportsmen can come to New Zea­land or New Zealanders to go to South Africa — whatever conditions which they have — like for instance, they would like to play a side selected by merit in fact I was told by a soccer administrator that any condition would be met if a New Zealand team came to South Africa. This is black. VVe want exposure.This is the reason. And if at all we got countries and people who are concerned about the plight of blacks in South Africa, one of the major things that we really want and are crying out loud for is opportunity to get experience by providing coaches and if we don't have facilities like that in South Africa let a country like New Zealand sponsor blacks to come out here and play sport and thereby get experience or qualify as coaches. That is what we want more than anything else.

Mr. Sehunne, does it not seem unusual that you are allowed out of South Africa to argue in favour of the present administration, when so many other black sportsmen who argue and criticise the administration are not allowed out?

Well, in fact I'm not arguing in favour o f the administration. I'm speaking on the contacts o f sport — about the ambitions of the black sportsmen in South Africa. And indeed it took me some time before I could get the legal documents to leave South Africa. It wasn't easy.

The fact remains, I th ink, that you mentioned those people that I quoted from as no longer being involved in sport — you said that one was an African businessman and had little connection w ith sport, but these were Africans and they were people.

in the main, who had been connected w ith sport in the past. And they were also people who had been connected w ith the apartheid sports bodies. Now what concerns me — you say you want black people to have the opportunity to progress, to get better, to meet international teams — I think that everyone should have the opportunity to play sport, but in South Africa I th ink that where South Africa should start is not to insist, or to ask New Zealand teams to go over and play racially-segregated teams in South Africa, but for South Africa itself to start playing multi-racial sport. Because your black soccer players — if they were to play against your white soccer players : If your black rugby players were to play against your white rugby players — surely that is where this dialogue, this communication should begin. * (This is a slip of the tongue on my part. What the anti-apartheid movement wants is not black teams playing white teams, for this is the meaning of multi-national sport. As I state later in the interview, what we want is people playing together in the same teams, irrespective of colour or ethnic origin). Because the multi-national sports policy, which you speak of, is actually an intensification of apartheid in sport.

SEHUME Well, you see, there has been a progress made on that score. I have justmentioned soccer. In fact, may I tell you this that soccer is our major game.

RICHARDS Yes, I realise this.

SEHUME This is what we are interested in, much more than rugby. Rugby is a m inoritysport, so far as we are concerned. And I have just pointed out that two weeks ago we had black teams — soccer teams — playing against the top white teams in South Africa.

RICHARDS But this is no progress at all — because what's happening — what we want to see, and surely I'm sure you would have to agree (yes) since you are concerned w ith multi-racial sport — is that blacks and whites should play together, (true).

COTE Mr. Richards, Dr. Danie Craven's statement last night, that the A il Blacks nextyear would play a racially mixed team in South Africa. Isn't the Government of South Africa coming a long way to accommodate the international move­ment against apartheid in sport?

RICHARDS No I'm afraid that what the South African Government is doing is engaging in a policy of international window-dressing. What we are concerned about is to see sport played in South Africa like it is in New Zealand and like every other country in the world. The team which w ill be selected, which w ill be a m ulti­racial team, w ill not be a South African team, it w ill be an 'invitation' team; it w ill not be selected on the basis of mixed trials, on the basis of merit — it w ill not represent South Africa — and furthermore. Dr. Koornhof, the South African Minister of Sport himself, has made it quite clear that this in no way indicates that there w ill be a relaxation o f apartheid in sport. So what it is — it is a mammoth hoax — it's international window-dressing to try and persuade us that something is happening inside South Africa, when at the very time that they are putting over this hoax, things in South Africa are becoming more rigid in terms of sport. Black teams can play white teams for the first time now in South Africa, but what the international anti-apartheid movement want, and

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what I believe genuine non-racial sportsmen in South Africa want — black white and coloured, is for all South Africans to be able to play together in the same team.

If I can ask you one final position here — if the A ll Blacks tour next year is called o ff because the Springbok Team is not selected on a merit basis, what do you think will be the affect on the position of black sportsmen in South Africa.

Well, in fact, that wouldn't matter much as far as black South Africans are concerned — and here again, I mean Africans, because it is a m inority sport — but I would like to see teams go out there, because somehow there are those people who play rugby — they w ill be able to take advantage of it — and I think there is going to be merit selection.

But if the tour is called o ff, what w ill be the affect?

Oh — it w ill make very little difference as far as we are concerned.

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I disagree w ith that completely. I f that tour were not called o ff it would be the greatest slap in the face to non-white sportsmen that could be given to them. Because by playing against racial I y-selected teams, by playing against the Springbok team, which is not selected on merit, we are slapping the face of 16 million black South Africans who because of the colour o f their skin are not allowed to represent their country. You can't deny the fact that South African blacks are not allowed to represent their country, simply because of the colour of their skin.

Well, actually that's correct — I agree w ith that — I mean the point is what's coming to South Africa is non-racialism.

Multi-nationalism is not non-racialism.

V\fell, look non-racialism is coming. The one thing I want to make clear w ith you — what is going on in South Africa is not geared up to placate inter­national opinion — because South Africans themselves need to be educated about how easy you can integrate sportsmen — that is a gradual process that is taking place at the moment.

But how can you say that non-racialism is coming to South African sport when the South African Minister of Sport himself has made it quite clear that apartheid in sport w ill remain at all levels?Politicians w ill say all sorts of things — but a great deal of progress has been made in such things as body contact sport is concerned. For instance we had boxing — just about 3 or 4 weeks ago, where it is not multi-national — because that is individual sport.

CONCLUSION

The different peoples of the world no matter their methods o f worship, or religious beliefs, whatever their language, irrespective of the skin colour, whether rich or poor indulge in some kind of sport, some for reward, others fo r pleasure, but in the land o f 'ouf birth this diver­sion, an act of enjoyment, because of a peculiar system imposed on the w ill of the Black People, the Black has to play against his own kind. There Ns no legislation in the Statutes, but the Country's 'Traditional Policy' goes further to compel the Indians to play against Indians : Coloureds against Coloureds and Africans against Africans.

The pro-Apartheid black administrators welcoming this ideal have set in motion racial clubs, district zones, provincial units and national bodies The National bodies are affiliated to white racial National organisations on a subservient or an associate level. By virtue of these a ffil­iations the White racial National organisations speak for the Republic of South Africa and represent it in international Fixtures, played locally and at Overseas venues. As there is no m ixed play , selection of a South African Team, in the case o f Tennis, a black team is pit against a white team and the selectors choose their so called 'best'.

This divide and rule policy has no credibility w ith the non-racial sportsmen and women, and it is taboo to the International Organisations, which have seen through this window dressing and quite naturally the puppet organisations cannot and w ill not be tolerated. SACOS cannot understand, although it respects others' viewpoints, how black administrators can accept inferior status in the face of s tiff opposition from their own kind.

Over the years the campaign to isolate South African sport has been successful and the Govern­ment, Broederbond, SA Olympic Committee's 'Multi-,national' plan was becoming more and more confused. Mr. Vorster, in his speech in Parliament on 22 April, 19/1 announced that it could apply only to International competition w ith foreign teams taking part. But when the foreign teams withdrew at the last minute from a multi-national football tournament in 1973 the policy was somewhat stretched to include South African racial teams to play against each other. The multi-national tournaments are regarded as 'potential minefield' (writes the Africa Bureau in its June 1975 issue) w ith referees being asked to bend over backwards for black teams in any razor-sharp competition.

Several white sportsmen, politicians and others called for a reappraisal of the 'sport policy'.Mr. Rudolf Opperman, President o f the white South African Olympic and National Games Association in a press report said 'I t seems unavoidable that the SAONGA w ill have to re­assess whether there is any further purpose in 'chasing rainbows'.

According to Dr. Piet Koornhof, the Minister of Sport and Recreation, there are in this country 74 codes of sport. Under the present 'Traditional policy' system each o f the four main races w ill have a national body for each code. In addition again, under the 'traditional policy' system you have an 'Umbrella' body. You therefore have 74 x 4 plus 74 — 380 sport bodies in the country instead o f only 74. And how many sportsmen of the year w ill you have? Yes 4.

Insofar as sponsorship is concerned, non-racial organisations are finding it extremely d ifficu lt to obtain sufficient funds to promote the principle. Several of the national codes had their applications turned down, to be told politely that 'their budget was fu ll'. Manufacturers, industrialists. Commerce and the like fostering sport on a racial level are certainly paying a high price to maintain racialism in sport. This is prevalent only in this country.

The South African Department o f Information, in conjunction w ith the Committee for fairness in Sport, advertising in the British National newspapers to spread the gospel of separateness in sport up to May of this year spent 100,000 pounds.

Non-raciai sport receives little publicity in newspapers owned by white firms. The Sunday Times, for instance, has an 'Extra' which is available in black areas only. Whites do not get the 'Extra' w ith the Sunday Times Obviously the 'extra' which carries black sport news is intended for black consumption only. If by mistake you purchase the 'Sunday Times' in a White area, it costs another twenty cents to ? get the 'extra' from a black selling point. You pay a further 20 cents if you care about black sport in the Reef. Several representations were made to the 'press' as such only to be told that the 'Board' dictates the policy of the paper. When Ashe won the Wimbledon, recently, several white newspapers paid him tribute, even 'Die Transvaler' which said ' 'Ashe has established himself as one of South Africa's best sporting friends' Since when ? Could be a very pertinent question.

When the Sunday Express reported the activities o f the non-racial weightlifting Federation unfavourably it was restrained from publishing further incorrect reports, after the Federation which sought legal opinion, made a demand on the paper and its publishers. Norman Canale, in the Sunday Times, writing about Peter Lamb, referred to Mr Norman Middleton, Hassan Howa and Mr. Patel as 'Political Agitators'. I cannot recall an article by Canale which praised non- racial sport.

The SAB C, the biggest news media in the country plays an important part in sport. From time to time, during all its news broadcasts, reports on the sports to be played and was played. At times it provides a ball by ball commentary. The Springbok Radio and Radio Port Natal do the same. But all its broadcasts are about white sport, except perhaps fo r a 10 minute programme on the SABC on Saturdays only from 1.50 p.m. to 2.00 p.m.

This Conference should therefore call for the unstinted support o f every code, its officials and members, and the sporting fraternity. We must be united in this fight for recognition and must not under any circumstances accept less than what we are entitled to.

I am very thankful to the donors who made it possible to function during the past two years.A word of special thanks to Mr. Geo Singh and to Mr. Tom Newman whose efforts fo r our recognition in the world o f sport is a never ending one. I am very grateful to the United Nations whose material assistance has enhanced this report.

M.N. PATHER

GENERAL SECRETARY/La,

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