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Title
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Inside track
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Excerpt
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[Full text]: "A REPORT from South Africa yesterday that a new non-white sports committee has been formed to work together with the existing white South African Olympic and National Games Association (SAONGA) towards the country's fight for re-entry to the Olympics, was received with surprise and disappointment by anti-apartheid leaders in Britain. Denis Brutus, president of the South African Non-racial Open Comittee for Olympic Sports (SANROC) characterised the move as a blow to black South Africans who want multi-racial sport. There are two black sports groups in South Africa--those who agree with SAONGA president Frank Braun's proposals for organised separate black and white sports activities; and those who will not negotiate on any basis other than multi-racial sport. 'I am afraid,' says Brutus, 'that this means that the first group have agreed to co-operate with Mr Braun on what amounts to an apartheid platform.' Indeed, two members of the black group seeking multi-racial sport have been interrogated by special branch officers, adds Brutus. SANROC are retaliating by lifting their own restrictions on protests against individual athletes and officials as opposed to white South African teams."
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Bibliographic Citation
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"Inside track (1971-02-28)", The Sunday Times, 1971-02-28, p. 22.
Accessed 2019-12-17. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/FP1801045809/GDCS?u=linc74325&sid=GDCS&xid=bca8e268.
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News Item Type
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News Report
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Date
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28 February 1971
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Identifier
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apdp.news.000199
