Blast from the past: Tete offensive wipes out Narvaez

Today in SA sports history: April 21

20 April 2023 - 22:06

1971 — SA prime minister John Vorster announces a multinational sports policy which, though a radical shift by allowing a level of mixed-race competition, is in reality little more than window-dressing and pragmatically confusing. All Olympic codes were identified as multinational sports and were allowed to be multiracial at national level, but not at provincial and club level. Visiting sports teams were allowed to select players of colour, but they could not play against mixed local teams. White SA cricket and rugby teams were to remain white. ..