Leaflet apparently handed out at a demonstration in Los Angles, California against the United States tour by South Africa's Springbok rugby team with games scheduled for Chicago, Albany and New York City. The leaflet says if you could see their national sport, you might be less keen to see their sportsmen, apartheid and racism in sports are a denial of human dignity. The leaflet says Los Angeles will host the Olympic Games in 1984; as in Montreal 1976, many nations will refuse to participate if the U.S. receives racist teams from South Africa; this demonstration, focusing on the South African rugby team, symbolizes opposition to racism in any form and specifically, opposition to apartheid in...
Leaflet apparently handed out at a demonstration in Los Angles, California against the United States tour by South Africa's Springbok rugby team with games scheduled for Chicago, Albany and New York City. The leaflet says if you could see their national sport, you might be less keen to see their sportsmen, apartheid and racism in sports are a denial of human dignity. The leaflet says Los Angeles will host the Olympic Games in 1984; as in Montreal 1976, many nations will refuse to participate if the U.S. receives racist teams from South Africa; this demonstration, focusing on the South African rugby team, symbolizes opposition to racism in any form and specifically, opposition to apartheid in sports. The leaflet says in recent years, South Africa has been waging a slick, well-financed advertising campaign to show that it has altered its policy of apartheid; South Africa has tried to create a benign image so as to convince the rest of the world that racism is no longer tolerated in South African sport. The leaflet says interracial sports competition is forbidden at the club or provincial level by the South African government; "Non-white" or black athletes are restricted to inferior sports facilities while the government provides hefty subsidies for white sports; South African sport is ruled by all-white councils and federations. The leaflet says leaders of non-racial sporting bodies, which advocate open competition without racial restriction, have been arrested, detained, banned, censored and otherwise harassed by the government; to prevent them from presenting their positions before international sporting bodies, they are not allowed to travel abroad. The leaflet discusses bantustans.
