Wide British ban sought
AFP Ouagadougou The Supreme Council for Sports in Africa has urged a wholesale boycott of British athletes and sporting goods because of London’s failure to prevent an English Rugby Federation tour of South Africa this month.
The call was made at a week-end meeting of the Council’s Executive Bureau, in the Upper Voltan capital.
It dismissed the British Government’s argument that it had no statutory power to stop the tour as evidence of its “unconcern and indifference.”
Delegates at the meeting added the tour clashed with the Gleneagles Declaration
by Commonwealth countries on avoiding sports contacts with “racist South Africa.”
Recalling the anti-apart-heid resolution passed by the Supreme Council’s 1979 General Assembly, the executive asked members “without further delay” to:
• Boycott systematically all sports competitions throughout Britain.
@ Forbid British citizens to take part in sports competitions in Africa. • Ban British coaching engagements in Africa.
• Boycott British sports goods.
® Refuse to use British firms for the construction of sports facilities.
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