S.A. and cricket
Sir, — R. T. Brittenden reports (“The Press,” July 2) that the chairman of the New Zealand Cricket Board of Control, Mr Bob Vance, has suggested that South Africa should be readmitted to the International Cricket Conference, and that New Zealand would support an Australian move to have a South African spokesman at the I.C.C. conference next month. Through your columns, I would like to ask Mr Vance two questions: (1) Which body does he see as representing South Africa on the board — the white-led South African Cricket Union or the non-racial South African Cricket Board? (2) Which of these two bodies, if not both, does he propose should have a spokesman at the international meeting? — Yours, etc., A. J. CAMPBELL. July 2, 1980. [Mr R. A. Vance, chairman of the New Zealand Cricket Council, replies: “The answer to both questions is the South African Cricket Union, the body led by the Indian, Rachid Varachia. S.A.C.U. has most certainly made moves of integration not only on the cricket field but within its own administration. S.A.C.U. is the rightful body to appear at I.C.C. as it is the result of the joining together of the three old associations: (1) South African Cricket Association (white) (2) South African Cricket Board of Control (Coloured) (3) South African Cricket Association (black). In contrast, the so-called “non-racial” South African Cricket Board, led by Hassan Howa, is not integrated and appears to be opposed to the progressive integration being achieved by S.A.C.U. The International Cricket Conference is a forum of countries who organise and run cricket. Membership does not automatically mean international competition. I repeat the policy of the N.Z.C.C.: We support South Africa’s membership of I.C.C. but will not play cricket against South Africa when it is our country’s policy to support the Gleneagles Agreement as it relates to apartheid. Surely any thinking person would support and encourage those who work for integration in sport in that country?”]
S.A. and cricket
Press, 9 July 1980, Page 20
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