PE LE rE Feels Sar ct Sey es Re ee Lone eee — fre ON Oa Oe Rs Oa ot ee. ei ND aii i tte : SPorts -SPorting By ABRAHAM ORDIA President of the Supreme Council for Sport in Africa For the past 75 years, sport in South Africa has been controlled by white South Africans, and all internationally recognized sports Organizations have been restrict- €d to whites, the only exception being table tennis. The all-white South African able Tennis Union was expel- led in 1956 by the International able Tennis Federation, and 4ffiliation given to the non- facial Table Tennis Federation. oa that year till now, the Outh “African government has “Consistently refused passports to _ Snable this Federation to enter for World and other Internatio- Nal Championships. . The government policy prov- Mes for four different national 8Ssociations in each ‘sport in the Same country. This is against the Olympic Charter and the €gulations of International Ports Federations. Tustration of Black Sportsmen : Leisure, abundant economic sources, and perfect sub-tro- Pical climate all contribute to € development of sporting achievement. White South Af- 5 ICan sportsmen and women have ad their share of International honors, at Olympic ames and in sports like cricket _ 4nd rugby, in which they excel. In both cricket and rugby, the Outh African white teams are _ Fated as top contenders for the World championship.” In golf, Outh Africans Bobby Locke and ae Player have become inter- ationally famous; in track and si athletics, Paul Nash, and in mming, Karen Muir, have €qualled or broken world rec-— Ords, ; tej ck South Africa has little “Isure, scarce economic resour- _ Cs and apartheid — all negative actors for the development of achievement. Black Cuth Africans have not shared - the country’s sporting suc- eeres and have had to be con- Nt almost entirely with domes- JC competition among them- hee Humphrey Khosi, an Tican athlete who held his ‘Country’s record, could not enter © South. African champion- | Ships, much less be allowed to Present his country interna- tionally, Th Forced to Leave ve € history of Black South “tican sport is one of frustra- on and exile. For the past 25 *ars the best Black sportsmen ave had to leave South Africa Protester at an African National Congress demonstration against South African participation in the World Masters competition held last August in Toronto speaks about apartheid sports to a Bri- tish competitor. to further their sporting careers in other countries, though, no doubt, all of them, would have. preferred to represent their own country. A few examples are as fol- lows: In 1947, Ron Eland, a lightweight grated to Great Britain and the following year (1948) he repre- sented Britain at the London Olympics. Jake Ntuli, the boxer, also went to Britain and soon became British Empire Fly- weight Champion. Basil d’Oli- veira would have remained un- known if he had not emigrated to Britain; it is ironical that he was to become the centre of a major controversy which led to the cancellation of \the Maryle- bone Cricket Club tour of South Africa in 1968. Racial discrimination and seg- regation have retarded the devel- opment of white sport and Black sport. Both would have benefit- ted if competition was open to all. Apartheid in sport is tragic in its denial of human dignity, in its enforced waste of human talent and possibilities .. . All the anti-apartheid ele- ments of the world—the United Nations, the Organization of Af- rican Unity (OAU) and the Su- preme Council for Sport in Afri- ca (SCSA) — have therefore called for a total isolation of South Africa. In spite of her ex-, pulsions from the Olympic Movement, some member coun- weightlifter, .emi-_ tries, for reasons other than sport, continue, in defiance of world opinion, to give that coun- try sporting competitions, thus consolidating its apartheid poli- cy. Nevertheless, the battle is not lost. Below are some of the suc- -cesses we've had in isolating South Africa to date: 1963 — South Africa barred from Tokyo Olympics in 1964 because stipulated conditions not fulfilled. 1964 — South Africa suspend- ed from world football by Inter- national Football Federation (FIFA). ; 1964 — South Africa barred from international competition by World Fencing Federation. 1968 — Mexico refuses to in- vite South Africa to Olympics. International Olympic Commit- tee (IOC) Executive Board con- firms this decision by withdraw- ing invitation. 1968 — South Africa expelled from world boxing by Interna- tional Amateur Boxing Associa- tion (AIBA). é 1969 — Hungary refuses visas to South African team for the World Pentathlon Champion ships. 1969 — International Judo Federation refuses South ‘Africa membership. . 1970 — South African team barred from World Netball Championships. 1970 — South African team barred from World Gymnastics | Championships in Yugoslavia. 1970 — South Africa suspend- ed from Davis Cup following boycotts by - most European countries and demonstrations in Norway, Sweden and Britain. 1970 — South Africa expelled from Olympic Movement by In- ternational Olympic Commitee JUOQ) a= .1974 — India refused to play South Africa in’ finals in the Davis Cup (lawn tennis). The Supreme Council for Sports in Africa (SCSA) has played a leading role, directly and indirectly, in all the above crusades to isolate South Africa from international sport. .. The so-called modification which we -now see in the South African government’s sports pol- icy has been greatly influenced by these activities. However, time and history will judge its failures and successes. I can only hope they will be lenient with the former. (Excerpted from UN Seminar on South Africa, Aug. 2, 1975) “The fascist coup was born firing machine-guns and dollar bills . .. The United States poured more than $100-million into back- ing truck owners, businessmen | and the military.” : WORLD NEWS NEW REPRESSIVE DECREES ISSUED IN SPAIN Fascist Spain issued a new repressive decrees late last month to try to stem the mounting unrest in the country. The new decrees, signed by Gen. Francisco Franco, the decrepit 82-year-old military dictator, remove even the facade of alleged freedoms which exist in Spain. The decrees allow the police to search without warrants, extend the time police can hold a suspect, greatly limit activities of jour- nalists and publication of written material, and provide that news- papers can be suspended for 90 days for defending any terrorist -or terrorist group. The Franco decrees. also outlaw all Communist, anarchist, and “separatist” groups. All this may seem to mean little, since the Spanish police do any- thing they choose. But in fact in recent years public support has been mobilized to force the regime to live up to its own laws.- MORE DISORDER IN PRC More civil disorders broke out last week in Heilungkiang (capi- tal: Harbin), a north Manchurian province of the People’s Republic of China. The disturbances were said to involve some workers at the Taching oil fields. The military earlier had been sent into the provinces of Chekiag and Anhwei, northwest and southwest of Shanghai, to put down worker-peasant uprisings. A broadcast by Radio Harbin said that recently protests “have become serious‘. . . It is necessary to mobilize the masses to reso- lutely expose and relentlessly strike at them (the protesters).” The broadcast said that “a certain number of leading cadres” had joined the protesters and that “others are refusing to face the facts” about the seriousness of the situation. It is believed the workers are demanding restoration of their wage increases won earlier this year, as in Chekiang and Anhwei. *ROUND THE WORLD PROTEST OVER BASQUE DEATH SENTENCES The death sentences pronounced by a Spanish fascist military tribunal against two Basque anti-fascist patriots was protested around the world. Jose Antonio Garmendia, 24, and Angel Otaegui, 33, on August 29 were sentenced to death by garrote — a medieval torture which causes death by strangulation — by a fascist military tribunal in Burgos. The autonomous Communist Party of Euzkadi (the Basque country) declared a protest strike which was joined by tens of thousands of workers in northern Spain; the official Spanish news agency Cifra reported that more than 65 factories © went out on strike. Big demonstrations marched through the streets of London, Paris, Stockholm and other cities protesting the sentences last weekend. 2 ae Protest can be sent to: Capitania General de Burgos, 6 A Region Militar, Burgos, Espana/Spain. cee . Solidarity message TORONTO—The United Elec- “This trade union, representing trical, Radio and Machine Work- ers (UE) has sent a wire of strong solidarity to Intersindical, the Trade Union Federation of Portugal. Citing fascist violence against union members and premises, the message, signed by UE Pre- sident C. S. Jackson pledges sup- port in the Portuguese unions’ efforts to defend themselves against the fascist violence, and foreign interference. about 25,000 industrial workers in the Canadian electrical indus- try, strongly deplores the fascist counter-revolutionary actions’ in Portugal. “These events have a frighten- ing similarity to the destruction of democratic ahd trade union rights in Chile, and pose a great peril not only for the Portuguese people but all who cherish de- | mocracy and progress. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—SEPTEMBER 19, 1975—Page 5 See peeery oe etre