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UNITED NATIONS UNITED NATIONS CENTRE AGAINST APARTHEID co NOTES ANQ J0DMM. NTS* i%, FEB 1I 1986 September 1985 REGISTER OF SPORTS CONTACT WITH SOUTH AFRICA 1 July - 31 December 1984 rote: Pursuant to a decision Anartheid has been publishing with South Africa. in 1980, the Special Committee against semi-annual registers of sports contacts The present register, as the previous ones, contains: A list of sports exchanges with South Africa arranged by the code of sports; A list of sportmen and sportswomen who participated in sport events in South Africa, arranged by country. Names of persons who undertake not to engage in further sports events in South Africa will be deleted from the register.7 *All materiai in these Notes and Documents may be freely reprinted. Acknowledgement, together with a copy of the publication containing the reprint, would be appreciated. United Nations. New York 10017 7/85 85-24614 CONTENTS Page INTRODUCTION ............. ............................ 1 South African propaganda .......... .................... 1 I. THE REALITY IN SOUTH AFRICA .... ................ ..... 2 A. Media reporting ........... ........................ 2 B. Laws and regulations ............ C. Co-operation with apartheid sport ............... 3 D. Sports in schools ........... ....................... 4 E. Cricket ............ ............................ 4 F. Football ................ ...........5 G. Golf ........ ....... .............5 H. Sailing ............. ............................ 5 I. Tennis . .......... ...... ...........5 II. SOUTH AFRICA AND THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT ..... ............ 6 III. INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION BY DECEPTION ..... ........... 7 IV. THE COMMONWEALTH GAMES FEDERATION ...... .............. 8 V. INTERNATIONAL ACTION AGAINST APARTHEID SPORT .... ........ 8 VI. DELETIONS FROM THE REGISTER .......................... 10 A. The case of Mr. Walter Hadlee .................... .11 13. Clarification ......... ...................... .11 Annexes I. List of sports exchanges with South Africa from 1 July to 31 Jecember 1984 II. Register of sportsmen and sportswomen who participated in sports events in South Africa from 1 July to 31 December 1984 -ii- INTRODUCTION The international community has intensified the campaign against apartheid sports and refuses to believe in the apartheid propaganda. One of the claims by the South Africa's propaganda campaign is that sport in South Africa is now largely integrated and that the ongoing changes ought to be recognized and encouraged by dismantling the international boycott. The so-called "changes" in South African sports, however, are mere readjustments in the apartheid policy, which still remains the law of the land. Furthermore, such changes have come about only because of the pressures resulting from the sports boycott. The Olympic Movement has now joined the lobby calling for the exclusion of apartheid South Africa from international sports. Many Governments have reiterated their support for the campaign to isolate apartheid sport. However, some sports organizations and individuals, especially from Western countries, are still providing contacts for South African sports teams and individuals. South African propaganda Apartheid sports administrators in South Africa have adopted a new tactic in their propaganda campaign. They now openly denounce apartheid in sport and claim that the discrimination encountered by blacks in South Africa is the result of the government activity. They also claim that sports bodies are "totally autonomous" and "have nothing to do with the Government or the government policy". I/ Meanwhile, South Africa continues its extensive propaganda abroad. To counter world wide opposition to apartheid, it has announced its decision to rescind some laws which peripherally affect racial discrimination. Recently, the r4gime has set up special overseas offices to lobby for the re-entry of South Africa into international sports. For example, in July 1984, Eddie Barlow, a former cricket player who had played country cricket in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and who was also once a parliamentary candidate for the South African opposition Progressive Federal Party (PFP), opened an official sports promotion office in London. The office has an operating budget of $200,000 per annum. The South Africans also planned to open offices in Australia and the United States of America, similar to the one in London. The South African embassy in London has an officer specifically assigned to promoting contacts with apartheid sport and termination of the international sports boycott. Similarly, most South African embassies now have an official with special responsibility for sports. 2/ In October 1984, at a meeting of their Olympic and National Games Association, South Africa's white sports administrators drew up a so-called "declaration of intent" to mislead the world into believing that they were committed to equality in South African sport. Their efforts were designed to have South Africa readmitted into international sport, not to dissolve apartheid. / South Africa continues to invite influential sports administrators to visit the country, all expenses paid, to show them the purported "changes" in South Africa. In October 1984, Bruce Cousens, a member of the Australian Rugby Union Council, and Bruce Templeton, Australia's national rugby coach in 1980, toured South Africa at the expense of the South African Rugby Board "to collect information for the Australian Rugby Union". 4/ South Africa has also hired the International Management Group, a world-famous sports promotion company headed by Mark McCormack,of the United States, to market international events in South Africa and to focus overseas television programmes on South Africa. 5/ In August 1984, the Southern Suns Hotel Group, long suspected of acting as a front for the apartheid Government, provided a sponsorship of R 12 million to the Grand Prix motor circuit, therefore ensuring that South Africa remain in the circuit. The group's marketing director promised excellent exposure overseas, as the contract included advertising at all the other Grand Prix circuits. On average, each Grand Prix event attracts a television audience of some 800 million viewers from 32 countries, clearly providing an excellent opportunity for apartheid propaganda. 6/ Also in August, a white sports official admitted that the choice of a South African team for the "Mr. Universe" bodybuilding contest had been prearranged for political reasons. The white divisional winner of the South African Bodybuilding Championships was bypassed and national colours were awarded instead to the black runner-up so that the South African team could include a black contestant for the world championships. A white official who was in charge of preparations for the "Mr. Universe" contest admitted that "there was no other way. We had to make Dean LEhe white winner understand he was a victim, but if we had not done it that way, there would have been no team at all". 7/ I. THE REALITY IN SOUTH AFRICA A. Media reporting Racial incidents are not regularly reported by the South African media. This is partially due to media channels which are almost totally white-owned and are therefore opposed to the international sports boycott. The major reason for the rare reporting of racial incidents is the almost total polarization of sport in South Africa into racial units. Many blacks who have ventured into white sports enclaves have discovered that whites are not genuine in their offers. They usually return to play within the black sports leagues. A perusal of the South African white and black newspapers proves that racial mixing is rare. B. Laws and regulations The South African r6gime and its sports administrators continuously repeat that permits are no longer required to play mixed race sport or to attend such sports fixtures. However, recent amendments to three apartheid laws categorically state that the provisions of the Group Areas Act do not apply "for the purpose of attending in some or other capacity a bona fide sports meeting being held there". These amendments were designed to confer "honorary white" status on blacks to enable them to participate in sports in white group areas. The amendment to the Black (Urban Areas) Consolidation Act states that: "The onus of proving in any criminal proceedings ... that an accused attended a sports function or entered an area referred to therein or remained therein or had been therein for the purpose of attending a sports function, shall be upon the accused." As a result of the complexity of these amendments, written proof is required stating that the person concerned is either going to attend or has attended the specified sports function. Consequently, an entry ticket to a sports function has now become a legal permit to enter a prescribed black area. For example, Peter Auf der Heyde, a white Rhodes University student who faced two charges of entering a black township to play football without a permit, was arrested a third time in November 1984 on a similar charge. The incident had arisen only a few hours after a ministerial press statement was released allowing whites without permits to enter black areas to play sports. This incident embarrassed South African sports administrators, who were attempting to prepare a case for South Africa's readmission to the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The South African National Olympic Committee (SANOC), fearing adverse publicity, asked a member of its executive committee,

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