UNITED NATIONS UNITED NATIONS CENTRE AGAINST APARTHEID NOTES AND DOCUMENTS* No. 11/83 May 1983 ROGISTER OF SPORTS C0tYAUIS WrrH SOUTH AFRICA 1 1982 P .. UXo ./!tote: Pursuant to a decision in 1980, the Special muidttee against prtheid FiA5en publishing periodic registers of sports contacts with South A i. he first register, published on 15 May 1981, covered the period frcm 1 September 1980 to 31 March 1981. The second register covered the period from 1 April to 31 Decenter 1981. 7he third register covered the period from 1 January to 30 June 1982. 7he present register, as the previous ones, contains: (a) A list of sports edhanges with South Africa arranged by the code of sport; and (b) A list of sportsmen and sportsmen 'o 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 frcm the register..v. 83-13484 *All material in thes Notes and Documents may be freely reprinted. Acknowledgement, together with a copy of the publication containing the reprint, would be apprecited. United Nations, Now York 10017 -ii- Introduction During 1982, many gover ants and organizations zeaffirmed their c tmxx tent to boycott apartheid sport. Several have taken further action tomard that end. Some sports aes and atdmnistrators, hoever, have continued to provide support for 2arted dundr the pretext of separation of sports and politics. 7he South African idgine, desperate for inteanaticnal competition, engaged in further manoeuvres to deceive world opinion while increasing intiidation of non- racial sports bodies in South Africa. At the sane time, emczbitant amounts of mney were offered to international sportsman to visit South Africa. It has been comservatively estimated that in 1982 alone, South Africa spent $10 million to attract overseas sportsn. Such expenditure by any one country is utec nted. While South Africa was able to entice som sportsmnnt and sportswmn, public opinion in their respective countries was outraged and this led to greater anti-athi activity. Meanghile, there has no,- been sufficient progress in the boycott of South Africa in certain sports, such as motor cycle and motor car racing, professional golf and tennis, as well as professional bcing organized by the iorld Boxing Association. A large percentage of the persons naned in this register have competed in those sports. 2me relevant developaents are briefly revieved below. Readjustments and repression 7he readjustumts made by South Africa, whid axe widely publici2ed as removing all racial discrimination in sport, ae essentially meant to daosive world opnion. Racial discrimination continues both in sport and in all other aspects of life. The only change is that "honorary white" status is now being conferred on some blacks for the duration of certain "bona fide" sports fixtures ilr ving international participation. After such sporFix5tures, they have to return to the humiliation of aparthed. bst blacks have rejected this concession which is devised mainly toTe--iWBthe whites to me-enter international sport. Dr. Nthalo -btlana, dairman of the Saweto Committee of Ten, edced the felings of South Africa's oppressed people when he said that sport is part of the whole political situation in South Africa. "Sports in South Africa will only be integrated when the whole country is no longer segregated. 7he danges being made now are purely ametic," he went on to say. Y 2e recent dangs in regulations for government-approved sports fixtures were exposed when several black spectators were charged outside the Ellis Park Sports Stadium for not carrying their passes. -iii- 7he racist rgim and sports bodies have increasingly attacked black resistanoe to such cosmetic dhange as "politically motivated". 2be non-racial and anti-apartheid South African Comil on Sport (SAOS) - which rot only refuses to co-operate with the white govermntiar gnized sports bodies but also constantly exposes the mn -eu of the id r&me - has becam the main target of the r6gime and of the dte sports admiistros. Dr. Gerrit Viljoen, the Minister in charge of sports, has fuequently attacked SAS and called its officials 'political agitators'. Ue ihite South African Oly pic and National Association (SAKW has placed full page wdvertimts in nespapers to Aiscredit SACUS and its officials. Mr. Oppermn, president of SNAIM, alleged that SACOS ws controlled and adinstmd by a mall group of Asians and Coloureds, and claimed that the majority of blacks were idth his association. However, at the reoa- so-called "National Sports Congress" acnverrd by SQMr, there wre hardly any blacks. When asked by an erseas journalist why there we so few "black faces, Mr. Oppeutman said he believed most blacks imft administration to others, could not get off rk, and were "not keen" on meetings. 3 A statment isud by SI MC, to explain the reason why South Afria has been isolated ftu international sport, ccmpared the "cold war of sport" with the "war on the borders". Y Various plys haw been used to sabotage sports activities arranged by SMOs. At the SM sports festival held in Cape TMmn in Cbober thousands of misleading puuphlets were distributad to divert suorters to wong venes. At cne vene, where a gymastics display was to be held, the organizers foun that the Cape Ton City Council had duped loads of soil on the mface of the sports field. Y On amother ocasion, a smiJng pool to be the vene for the national dionhips of the Amat-epart .r Swimming Associatio of South Afric ws telyn y pepare by the City oncil, thm making it danxgerus for the patiipnt ad caingsarstodtroae White sports administrators of the IMeopizedsprt badie are enoouraged and assisted to travel to -nfereces and engage in I mp xmja Abcon %idle appcations for travel dcut by officials of SNM are constantly rejected. - iv Progress of sanctions against apartheid sport Several governments have taken further action to bar South African teams and individuals fran campeting in sport fixtures in their countries. The Governments of Denmark and Sweden have now initiated actions to strengthen their previous bans on South African teams and to ban individual South African sportsmen fran participating in sports fixtures in their respective countries. In March, the Danish Government banned several South African tennis players from carpeting in the 1982 Danish Indoor Chanpionships. The Swedish Goverment also banned two South African players from carpeting in the Stockholm Indoor Tennis Championships held in November 1982. * The Netherlands Government has informed all Dutch sports organizations that South Africa will not be allowed to participate in any sports event in the Netherlands. It has also advised Netherlands sports bodies not to have any contact with South African sports. The Canadian Goverment has announced that it will no longer subsidize Canadian teams for international events outside the country if South Africa is allowed to participate. It had alrady taken such action as regards travel of Canadian teams to South Africa and invitations to South African teams to ccmpete in Canada. The rugby unions of Canada, Hong Kong and Singapore took action against players who participated in an international team which visited South Africa. The Singapore Rugby Union banned its captain, Song Kooh Poh, for life while the Canadian Rugby Union banned its players for one year. Tokkie Smith, a South African now resident in Hong Kong, who organized the tour, was sacked by the Hong Kong Union as its vice-president. The Hong Kong Golf Association alos announced that it will bar South Africa from carpeting in the World Amateur Golf Championships scheduled for Hong Kong for 1984. South Africa was barred from the World Professional Golf Tournament held in Acapulco, Mexico, in December, as the Mexican Goverment refused to allow the South African team to cxmpete The Go nent of the Repubic of Korea banned the participation of the apartheid team in the 27th World Baseball Championships held in Seoul in Septemfber 1982. The Goerment of Australia decided in January 1983, after the West Indian cricket tour of South Africa to deny visas to international sports stars who compete in South Africa in violation of the Gleneagles Agrement. An English women's cricket tour of the West Indies in February 1983 was prohibited by the Caribbean Goernments as the team included five players who had curpeted in South Africa. The International Tennis Council imediately nt to the defence of arthe by imposing heavy fines on the Danish and Swedish tennis federations. This was particularly )serious as the International Tennis Federation itself had previusly agreed that because of the problems arising out of South Africa's international participation, that country should not be allowed to take part in the Davis Cup and Federation Cup tournanents. The Special Committee against A strongly condemned the action. Commonwealth Ganes Federation - Code of Conduct The Commonwealth Games Federation adopted a "Code of Conduct" in view of repeated sports exchanges with South Africa by some member countries, with the full blessing of their respective national sports bodies, in direct violation of the 197T Commonwealth Statement on Apartheid in Sport (Gleneagles Declaration). The code was approved by an overwhelming majority at the meeting of the Federation in Brisbane, Australia, in October 1982. At the same time, the constitution of the Federation was amended to provide for the suspension of a country or association whose gross nonfulfilment of the objectives of the Gleneagles Declaration imperilled future Commonwealth Games. It is hoped that these decisions will help particularly in preventing contacts with South Africa in rugby, which represents one of the main loopholes in the Comonwealth boycott of aDartheid sport. SDorts exchanaes with South Africa In the face of the growing boycott of apartheid sport, South Africa has embarked on a major offensive to lure international sports stars by conspiratorial negotiations offering exorbitant sums of money.