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Brochure of the Stop The Fight Campaign (STFC) covers these topics: Apartheid's Propaganda "Sporting" Image • Bob Arum, America's Major Promoter of South African Sport • NBC-TV Again Intends to Spotlight the Propaganda Spectacle for Millions of Americans! • World Boxing Association (WBA) is Dominated by South Africans • PROTEST! Write to • What Black Boxing Leaders Say About the Fight • STFC is being organized by ACCESS, the American Coordinating Committee for Equality in Sport and Society, and the NAACP. • A South African show-piece match between their "White Hope" Gerri Coetzee and U.S. Black heavy-weight John Tate is scheduled for October 20 in Pretoria. Americans must stop this phony apartheid "sport" scheme and strengthen the United Nations boycott of South Africa. Sport has been integral to South Africa's overseas propaganda, and professional boxing is one the few arenas of sports still available. South African boxing in is directly controlled by the scandal-ridden South African National Boxing Board of Control (SANBBC), a statuary body under the Ministry of Sport. Financing of recent fights in South Africa has been provided by Southern Suns Hotel, fronting for the Ministry of Information, according to the non-racial South African Council on Sport (SACOS). Bob Arum arranged the so-called "title eliminator matches" between Spinks and Tate and the South Africans. It was Arum who selected the so-called "independent state" of Bophuthatswana as the site for the recent Knoetze-Tate fight and got CBS to call it "the independent African Nation of ..." NBC-TV televised Coetzee's massacre of Spinks in June, 1979 and would televise the Coetzee-Tate fight in October, giving credibility to the apartheid regime. People are asked to protest to (1) Arum for his promotion of South Africa and his manipulation of Black American boxers; (2) Art Watson, President of NBC-TV Sports, for his plan to televise the South African propaganda scheme; (3) John Tate, U.S. fighter, urging him to refuse to participate in the endorsement of apartheid; and (4) the editor of your local newspaper. The brochure quotes by Muhammad Ali, Larry Holmes and Don King. The brochure mentions Top Rank, Inc., Col. Jerry Miller, and Golden Gloves Arena.

African Activist Archive

STOP THE FIGHT!

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