South Africa and sport
Sir, —; Why the reluctance to acknowledge that large grouping of non-racial South African sports people in the South African Council’ on Sport? John Leslie (August 14) skirts around naming the council, and; all but adiriits that • he made no effort to contact members of it when in South Africa. In opposing the proposed Springbok tour your editorial; quotes. good
secondary reasons; but says nothing about the primary reason. This is that nbn-rac- ■' ial sports people, including, about 50,000 ,in the South African Rugby Union,' have ■ asked us to support their anti-apartheid' sports fight by severing, all sports contact with their country: The ' banning of the/June meeting of S.A.C.O.S. had no men-, tion here (that 1 have noticed, but the banning of a few Springboks from Argen-' tina is reported. If we do not give : credence to the an t i-a p art he id South Africans, how' can we find a , basis for our own anti-apar-theid stance? — Yours, etc-, A. J. CAMPBELL. : August 14, 19801
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