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through its blacklists of to the world sporting stage. apartheid. However, there arrived in New Zealand are still far too many sports against a background of people like Robin Jackman, hunger strikes, demonstrawho precipitated the expul- tions in more than thirty sion of the England cricket towns and cities, and an team from Guyana last important legal case testing winter. the validity of their entry He had spent the last ele- into the country. The team ven winters playing cricket was unable to fly direct as and coaching in South Australia and Fiji refused Africa and the then transit rights. Rhodesia. 'Every team he This was in pursuance of worked with was 'Whites the Gleneagles agreement only' signed in 1977 between all Creatures like Jackman Commonwealth countries receive strong backing from committing governments to Olympians meddling in human affairs policy by refusing to allow a team of black boys to compete in a tournament. He said that they might make friends with whites, and the South African cabinet were forced to intervene.

SANROC has recently been successful in drawing attention to these cover-up activities, particularly those who play sport with Clash of the Titans:

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the British Sports Council. Both chairman Dickie Jeeps and committee man Bill Hicks, haye ended up on SANROC's blacklist. The latter recently visited South Africa for six weeks, and on returning held a press conference to declare his intention of pushing • for the apartheid regime's return The Springboks have Mac. 'Excalibur' and 'Clash of libur Ine litans' tans "combat the evils of apartheid by taking every practical step to discourage contact or competition with sporting organisations, teams, or sportsmen from South Africa.

Despite pressure from the labour movement, New Zealand's right-wing Prime Minister, Robert Muldoon, has blatantly disregarded this agreement and sided with racially segregated sport. His country's participation in future world sporting events, and indeed in the Commonwealth, is now open to strong question.

South Africa's racial policies will not in the end be changed by sports boycotts. But they can help encourage black Azanians' own struggles which will ultimately bring about the demise of this barbaric system.

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