British Rugby and the Gleneagles Agreement

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Author/Creator The Anti-Apartheid Movement Date 1983-11 Resource type Memorandums Language English Subject Coverage (spatial) South Africa, United Kingdom Coverage (temporal) 1983 Source Archives of the Anti-Apartheid Movement, AAM National Committee Papers, June 1983 - February 1985, MSS AAM 52. Description Statement on British Rugby and the Gleneagles Agreement Format extent 2 page(s) (length/size)

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I vs BRITTSR~-PU9BY ANP TPECW11E (4L 2 AT.F~nNT. The Anti-Pnartheid Movement is gravely concerned at two nlanned Ruaby exchances with South Afri ,a a) an under I. youth rugby team frcr South Afric hich.iS .to ,tour Viales. b) a tour bythe Ruabv Football Union of En Iand So tb frica. Wiith'&n a :ew 6ays of the Commonwealth Conference, the first "representative" South African team since :the Springbox tour of '1969-76 will tour Wzales. This tour is a result of man invitation by the Welsh Youth Ruaby Union, and the under 19 team is expected to play 6 matches culminating in a Youth International in early January probably at Cardiff Arms Park. The government has assured the Pnti-A.Prtheid Movement thatit "is seeking to dissuade the Welsh rugby authorities from proceedina with this tour"; but the Anti-Anartheid Movement believes that it will clearly need stronger action by the government to stop the tour. Of even more serious consequence to the International Boycott of sporting links with South Africa is the scheduleO tour of South Africa by the Rugby Football Union of England to take place next year. Whilst most international sporting bodies have elected to end sporting contacts with South Africa, the International Rugby Board has not; the South African Rugby Board is a founder member, and the English Rugby Football Union also belongs to it. Most I.R.B. members have persisted in organising tours to and from South Africa. However in recent years successful representations by private bodies, sports organisations and governments have caused a number of rugby tours to be cancelled. In 198T the Scottish Rugby Football union declined an invitation to play South Africa, in 1982 the Welsh Rugby Union agreed te call off a tour; earlier this year the French Rugby Federation declined an invitation to visit South Africa, and in March the USA Rugby Union decided to stop rugby exchanges with South Africa until after 1984. The Rugby Football Union of England is due to decide in February or March 1984 whether to proceed with its schedxled tour ?f South Africa; if it does so this wruld be the first major tour to take plac e 'in suth - frica since the Irish tourina side in 1981 and would be the mest significant hreach of the Gleneagles rareement ås we iiäs the ComnweaIth Games Federation Code of Conduct to have occured since the last Commonwealth Gaiies. It w-ulå also be a- serious threat to the success of the forthcoming Commenwealth Games in Edinburgh in 1986 and wouid undoubtedly cause concern among other Commenwealth countries ab ut the determin ihoh of the United Kinqdem to act to end finrtinn, --telations wi'h- South Africa.4 AnÉi-Ap(rtheid Moveient Novembeor 1983-. 1 "