Title

Apartheid and Sport: The Logic of Denis Howell's Approach

Excerpt

"If the Minister for Sport, Mr. Denis Howell, has his way we will be deprived next year of the opportunity of seeing the South African cricket team in action. Choosing his words with care, Mr. Howell said in a television interview at the week-end: 'I personally don't think the South African team should come. I Have no time for sport based on racial considerations. Their sport certainly is, and the selection of their team certainly is." ...By this I mean far more than the cancellation of the New Zealand rugby tour in 1964, or the fiasco over the MCC tour last year. I could take the story back as far as 1956, when the International Table Tennis Federation excluded from membership the all-white official South African Table-Tennis Association in favour of an unofficial group whose rules allowed ping-pong across the colour line. But it is best to begin with 1962, when the "South African non-racial Open Committee for Olympic Sports"--Sanroc--was formed. This group worked originally inside the Republic but it has since exiled itself to London since its president, Denis Brutus, left his home country in 1966 after a 22-month term served mostly on Robben Island..."

Bibliographic Citation

"Apartheid and Sport: The Logic of Denis Howell's Approach (1969-10-21)", Financial Times, 1969-10-21, p. 22.
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News Item Type

News Report

Tags

sport

athlete

suspension

ban

Olympics

demonstration

apartheid

protest

racism

Publisher

Financial Times

Date

21 October 1969

Identifier

apdp.news.000197

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People referenced

Howell, Denis

D'Oliveira, Basil Lewis

Bland, Kenneth Colin

de Broglio, Chris

Rogaly, Joe

Brutus, Dennis Vincent