SOUTH AFRICAN TENNIS UNIONOne month after submitting our first application to the ITF the Acting President of the SATU invited us to discuss 'a positive programme for playing non-racial tennis, and the possible amalgamation of SATU and TASA”. In rejecting the invitation we stated : "The physical proximity of black and white is no guarantee for the implementation of the Non-raciai principle. What is at issue is whether the basic human rights, freedoms and privileges of ALL are respected, guaranteed and entrenched". Another invitation was received after the ITF meeting in July 1984.In once again rejecting the invitation, we stated, inter alia: " ........... you haveunambiguously shown that you subscribe to the racialism that rules our total lives . . . you have been an active agent in perpetuating racialism . . . Since your Union has made it undeniably dear that you underwrite this (Apartheid) ideology, any discussions with your organisation-can only mean that we, too, underscore the status quo and are prepared to work within the ambits predetermined by it."

INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENTAn invitation was received for a junior team to take part in an international tournament in the Philippines, in view of the UN moratorium on tours to and from S.A. we could no t accep t it.

ACTIVITIESTwo highly successful junior tournaments were staged in Eshowe (1983) and Umtata (1984). Both were sponsored by the Coca-Cola Bottlers of S.A. who have made a significant contribution to the development of junior tennis for more than a decade.

Our 5th and 6th National Open tournaments were held in Port Elizabeth and Lenasia, respectively. Except for the high standard of, among others, Cavan Bergman, our Sportsperson of 1984, Raymond Anthony, Vera du Plessis and Charmaine Carolissen, the most outstanding feature of both tournaments was the increasing number of juniors who have moved up into the top ranks.

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In reply to previous invitations 1 stated unambiguously why we could not accept having discussions with you about the establishment of a central governing body. In respect of your latest invitation I have to inform you that, because of the reasons already given, and more, we find it impossible to accede to your request. Nothing has happened to change our point of view. In fact, now that Apartheid has been constitutionally entrenched, with its bases-from the Population Registration Act to the Separate Amenities Act and others-as well as the creation of State Departments of Own (Tribal) Affairs integrally part of the "new" Constitution, the situation has become even worse.

Our Association is the home of those tennis players who have always been rejected as not being part of South African society and the South African nation because the "races" into which we were subdivided are considered to be aliens in the land of their birth. We have suffered insults and scorn,denigration and rejection on the basis of criteria which the whole c iv ilised world rejects with contempt. Thus we were forced to develop such institutions that could make life more meaningful in those areas into which we wereforced to make out an existence. Yet, despite a ll the inequities and d isab ilit ie s, and the carefully devised indoctrination which has to sustain the system, we have never lost the most basic characteristic of the Race to the implementation of the non-racial principle: the beliefin the equality in dignity and worth of a ll, and the equality of rights for a ll members of the Human Race who have a right to call themselves South Africans.

Your Union, on the other hand owes its existence and survival to conditions directly opposite to those forced upon us. Because of the privileges and basic human rights which are constitutionally and statutorily entrenched for the benefit of that "race" which

excludes/.............

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fresidem: A.E. Fortuin: (02211) 32710 (R) V kc President; Don K«li(031) 07S27 (B) 971397 (R) Secreury: C.R. Clarke (021) 9310002 (B) Asst. Secretary: Y. Bhayat (011) S43093 (B) S42204 (R)

Treasurer; Y. W*)ah (011) 3317495 (B) 0526340 (R)

A l correspendefKe to be addressed lo the National Secretary.P.O. Bos 159. Athlone 7700. South Africa.

excludes us from membership, your aims and motives, your interests and your oery existence are directly contrary to_ ours. In fact, your Union is an integral part of the whole system.

Your Union has always purported to represent South Africa internationally, knowing fu ll well that ever since your inception you have condemned to in v is ib ility and non-existence the majority of South Africans. You have exploited that situation by promoting overseas an image that only members of a certain "race" could ever reach the highest rungs in sport.At this very moment your "South African" teams play "tests" against foreign "teams" selected by yourself from those who can be bought to v is it this country.

Your Union has exploited its a rt if ic ia l standing locally, too. Thus your coffers are regularly being swelled by grants from the manufacturers of tennis balls sold in this country, as i f only your tennis players use and pay for them. In fact, we can rightfu lly claim that you have received funds which morally you have not been entitle!.to receive.

And through your assistance in the creation and your direct involvement in the affa irs of the black tennis foundation, while the whites-only tennis foundation of South Africa is in existence, you have unambiguously shown that you subscribe to the racialism that rules our total lives. And, by slavish ly accepting and implementing that political ideology, your Union, like a ll other organisations and institutions that do likewise, have been an active agent in perpetuating racialism. This we do not doubt for a single moment: the existing political ideology could not have endured if i t were not for its implementation by and the active involvement of various structures and institutions functioning at different levels.

You have unquestioningly accepted the system; you have profited handsomely by it. You have, in fact, exploited the finest of a ll games- tennis-to promote a repugnant and rejected politia l ideology. And, in the process, you have been an agent in compounding the problems we have to live with.

To say that these are a ll political problems, is quite true. But, to add that they have nothing to do with sport, is downright dishonesty.For these problems determine the degree of provision for and participation in sport. And, since your Union has made it undeniably clear that you underwrite this ideology, and discussions with your organisation can only mean that we, too, underscore the status quo and are prepared to work within the ambits predetermined by it.

This we are not prepared to do.

We do not, for a single moment, consider that it w ill be in the interests of a ll tennis players to be party to this exercise. We have nothing to gain. Statutorily our members shall s t i l l be denied basic freedoms and rights to participate freely in sport. In terms of the Group Areal, Liquor and Urban Acts we shall be subject to so many restrictions that would make meaningful participation in sport impossible.The Separate Amenities Act w ill s t i l l ensure that we are denied the right to use fa c il it ie s provided with public funds. And, in terms of various Acts and Ordinances steamrollered through government structures before the implementation of the "new deal", only whites shall have the municipal franchise and only their town council shall have the right to control sports fa c il it ie s in the group areas/tribal reserves set aside

for/...............

for the unenfranchised blacks. In addition, school sport shall be an "own" a ffa ir - a s tr ic t ly tribal matter, as such decreed unilaterally by the "white race".

In brief, you w ill have the statutory right to discriminate against us on grounds of colour, whereas we are denied the right not to be discriminated against.

On what you w ill consider to be the credit side there may, perhaps, come into being a Coloured and Indian Tennis Foundation; we may, perhaps, share in the bounty from the manufacturers of tennis balls; i t is very probable that the SA Sport Sponsorships Association - the dictatorship that is envisaged to direct sponsorship in a specific direction-will look kindly upon us; "non-white seating" at E l l is Park w ill surely give way to permitted open seating etc.

In the final analysis, these, to us, are nothing but ploys to prop up the system of racialism, bribes to make Apartheid and its offspring, Sportsapartheid, nicer. We do not need, neither do we want a more acceptable form of Apartheid. We do not only reject the oppression and race discrimination that it spawns; we are committed to its utter destruction. And this is why we have started implementing it within the ranks of the oppressed by the creation of a NON-racial tennis association.

From the above i t ought to be patently clear that we are not, in the least, interested in perks and concessions; we demand the RIGHTS that w ill allow us to practise our sport as equals in dignity, worth and rights.

Yours

A E FORTUIN PRESIDENT

THE SOUTH AFRICAN TENNIS UNION ^ DIE SUID-AFRIKAANSE TENNISUNIE

(founder member o t end e ih lu ted lo the tTf)

P O B o x 2211.Johannesburg 2000.Tel.: ADD.: “Tennis" Tel.: (Oil) 29-6181

711 Saambou,78 Risstk Street. Johannesburg 2001.

President:The Hon M r Justice B L S Franklin National Secretary:L Janssens

M r A E Fortuin Marizel Kloof Street WELLINGTON 7655

11th October, 1983

Dear M r Fortuin,

I thank you for your letter of the 1st October, 1984, and regret to note that your Association adheres to its former point of view.

You quite correctly admit that your refusal to join with us in order to establish a joint governing body is based solely on political ground. From this admission it follows that the South African Tennis Union has not created the socio-political system in this country and nor is it in a position to change the system, whatever its merits or demerits may be. Neither has the International Tennis Federation any authority do so. The International Tennis Federation and the South African Tennis Union are not political institutions. In the circumstances I refrain from embarking upon a political discussion, save insofar as the game of tennis is concerned.

In this connection I must remind you that there is no law in this country prohibiting mixed tennis. Your statement that your members are still being denied basic free­doms and rights to participate freely in sport is not correct. Would you kindly point out to me in what respect the Croup Areas Act, the Liquor Act or the urban Areas Act hamper your participation in tennis tournaments or tennis events.

You also state that the establishment of a central governing body will not be in the interests of all tennis players. I fail to understand this argument. Undoubtedly a central governig body will be in a much better position to control the game in the country as a whole and to provide the financial means of such control. Your players will undoubtedly gain far more experience in playing in our tournaments in stead of boycotting them.

However, I shall convey the contents of your letter to our next Council Meeting. Unfortunately, it seems that we shall not be able to pursuade your Association to change its point of view.

I shall forward a copy of this letter to your secretary, M r Rather.

Yours faithfully, A De W Horak

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AB correapondence to be addrewed lo the National Secretarv- P.O. Be« 159, Atldonc 7700, South Alrka.

1 February 1985

Mr A De W Horak P.O.Box 2211 JOHANNESBURG 2000

Dear Mr Horak

I received your letter dated and date-stamped 11.10.84 only on Monday January 14, 1985. It was apparently "Returned for better address" by the postal authorities, and the back of the envelope carries another date - stamp - October 22, 1984.

This delay can very easily be ascribed to secretarial or postal incompetence. However since things like this occur frequently in our circ les, such handy excuses are not readily acceptable to us.It w ill be very d iff icu lt for anyone to convince me and our membership that some kind of manipulation did not take place.

This reply of necessity, w ill reach you three months late, and it w ill be regrettable i f this delay was used for ulterior purposes.

Your statement that our refusal to join you is based solely on poHtical grounds is not entirely correct. What you fa il to see, is that it is motivated as well by our basic humanity. Be that as it may, I make no apology for intimating that political considerations are of the utmost importance in determining our stance. That you have chosen to emphasize politics is understandable. In certain circ les it is a swearword and a very convenient rationalisation; a sim plistic label that is normally used in apartheid circles to s t if le anti-apartheid arguments.

May I add that our refusal to join you now is based on political grounds in the very same way as YOUR refusal to have us as members previously was based on political grounds.

Let me remind you. S ir, that TASA has its roots in the rejection our people suffered during the decades. We were forced into existence because of anti-black sentiments; anti-black racism bred by the Apartheid ideology that has always ruled this country and its people. We had to come into existence because of needs that were forcibly created in our community; because this racist philosophy does not consider us f i t to share a common fatherland, and rejects our very existence as human beings with equal social needs.

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But rather than combating anti-black racism with the equality negative and destructive anti-white racism, we in TASA and the non-racial fraternity have commited ourselves to the implementation of the universally accepted Non-Racial principle.

Your union, on the other hand, has made i t unmistakably clear that you subscribe to the racist Apartheid ideology. The only coninon ground that exists between our two bodies, is the size and the shape of the ball and courts we use.

You claim in your letter that there is no law prohibiting mixed tennis and therefore our statement that we are denied basic freedoms and rights is not correct.

Your juxta-position of these two statements is obviously intended to convey to your audience that since no law has specifically been enacted to prevent "mixed" play we have the inalienable right to participate freely in sport.

I do not only beg to d iffer with your Koomhof logic; I reject it outright. It is tantamount to saying that since there is no law covering a certain issue, one has the right to do the opposite. As a member of the S.A. legal profession you know fu ll well that our right to participate freely in sport is nowhere statutorily entrenched, but that in actual fact, the right to discriminate against us on the basis of "race" and colour is firmly entrenched in law.

The Separate Amenities Act, on which you are strangely silent, as well as countless Provincial Ordinances and Municipal Regulations empower authorities at various levels, and even indviduals, to apply race discrimination. And then there is , as well, the power given to Ministers and bureaucrats to promulgate "laws" by proclamation in the Government Gazette.

Because we are the victims of this system, we are aware of a host of measures that statutorily and otherwise entrench the right of authorities, organisations and individuals to discriminate against us on the grounds of "race" and colour. And nowhere do we have the right to seek legal redress against such discrimination.

I am astounded that you should even try to convey the impression that the Group Areas, Liqour and Urban Areas Act do not hamper our participation in sport. No doubt your se lectivity derives from the fact that in terms of these Acts various types of concessions, privileges and permits are available for the benefit of sportpersons. For example: amenities ofany possible kind may be accorded either permanent or temporary international status, not to cater for persons from Overseas, but in order, at any time (permanent status) or for a special occasVion only (temporary status), to cater for South Africans whose rightful status as nationals is denied and rejected.

Surely, S ir , you are aware that three "coloureds". Honourable members of Parliament, quite recently were debarred from a town hall, a pleasure resort, a restuarant and an hotel. These fa c ilit ie s had no international status, and the owners did not want to, or did not know, that they could phone some bureaucrat in Pretoria at any time of the day for the necessary Sn .ic fo so r condonation of a "mixed" gathering.

And/....... ............

And there are the swimming pools that have been declared "open", but with the warning that should there be a complaint by a white, persons of colour using them w ill be liable for prosecution.

The inanities that are perpertrated and legally sanctioned by these Acts are countless. Yet you have the temerity to imply that they do not hamper our participation in sport. -

And then there is the Separate Amenities Act which you, understandably, omit to mention. Understandably, because the Legal sub-committee of the government-sponsored Human Sciences Research Council found that it;

a. represents in great measure the ideological-political philosophy of the government;

b. authorises blatvmt race-discriminatory measures in respect of public amenities;

c. legalises inequal treatment; and

d. comprehensively affects all facets of l ife - makes it possible for race-discriminatory measures to be enforced at a ll levels.

And now, as a prelude to amending this Act, insofar as it affects sport, local authorities have been given powers to exercise control over sport amenities provided by public fund. In other words: what Apartheid does not want to be seen doing in terms of the aforementioned Acts, the less visib le local authorities w ill be empowered to do.

It is patently clear from your letter that you labour under the impression, or deliberately try to delude people into believing, that Sports apartheid is merely a question of a few laws that affect sport.

Let me state categorically that Sports apartheid cannot and does not exists in isolation. I t is the expression of Apartheid in a particular sphere of social activity; it derives from the statutory and instittionalised race discrimination that sets this strange society apart from others.It is not merely a set of laws, but also a host of institutions in all aspects of society that sustain the Apartheid structure.

We fu lly agree with the government-sponsored HSRC “that sport as a social institution cannot be seen in isolation from the rest of society". And, therefore, we endorse that there can be no normal sport in an abnormal society.

Your claim that SATU is not a political institution, is (xsimple question of semantics. Everything you have done and stood for during the decades of your existence was for the benefit and implementation of Apartheid. Without your contribution, and those of institutions and organisations like yours, this hideous racist philosophy would never have been as entrenched as it is today. Therefore, your claim not to be a political institution may be grammatically correct, but is factually deliberately incorrect.

We know/.............

We know that you are not in a position to change the system. Considering how you have used and exploited it is unbelievable that you would ever try to question, let alone undermine it. And because you are such a loyal and submissive partner of the system, the gulf between us is unbridgable.

In TASA we are in the process of laying the foundations for the only tennis controlling body that can and will exist in the Non-racial S.A. of the future. For the present we will exist parallel to other tennis bodies in this country. But the day w ill surely arrive when they will wither away like the fount that has kept them alive, namely. Apartheid.

Despite the lack of finance we have made remarkable progress. The sponsorship we have received, and for which we are extremely grateful, has been used to promote the game and the community, rather than swell the bank balances of mercenaries. We are proud of what we have achieved, and we claim without any reservations that the best tennis players in S.A. - both as athletes and as Human Beings - are in our ranks.

The experience our players may gain by playing in your tournaments, as you state in your letter, smacks of typical Apartheid arrogance. Without such experience we have done very well, thank you. We had no need for that in the past; and we, surely, do not need it now.

Rest assured that we will pursue our aims t i l l victory is ours. TASA as such may perhaps be forced out of existence, but the principle that underlies our being cannot ever be destroyed.

Yours

A E FORTUIN PRESIDENT

VOLLEYBALLWhite South Africa, it would appear, has not applied for membership of the world body

The Amateur Volleyball Association of South Africa reports as follows:

The President seen addressing a meeting o f volley ball players.

The bitter contrast in the quality of life between the small privileged class and the millions who make up the 'working masses' has deepened in South Africa. This capitalist class Inside the country are not alone. Several countries, through their large investments, support South Africa in exchange for their "share in the profits". This not only exposes at a sport level their double standards but explains why the international ban on sporting links with South Africa, is so often broken by Western countries. Their large companies also collaborate with the South African government in their strategy to destroy SACOS by cutting off sponsorship to non- racia! sporting organisations.

Volleyball, like most sports in apartheid South Africa, emerged under the control and in the interests of the ruling classes. As such, volleyball (since 1968), was being enjoyed socially and competitively exclusively by white South Africans. In 1978, arising out of the needs and interests of the oppressed classes, a long and arduous task began to build a national volleyball association. The gradual process of grass­roots activities at schools in the Western Province, Eastern Province and Natal, culminated in the formation of AVASA (Amateur Volleyball Association of South Africa) in Port Elizabeth in April 1982.

A few months later, A VASA confirmed its commitment to the broader sports' struggle by aligning itself with 21 national affiliates of the South African Council on sport (SACOS). In October 1982, A VASA successfully competed, under diffi­cult conditions, in the SACOS Sports Festival in Cape Town. This marked the birth of a new organisational force to challenge the multinational/multiracial white- controlled volleyball body. Whilst this sports body claimed to be open to ali, in practice it entrenched racist sport. The organisational structure of volleyball con­tinued to justify separation of South Africans by either using the scientific untruth of the existence of many human races (multiracial) or supporting the Apartheid myth of many nations (multinational) living in the same country. This meant, in fact, the acceptance of apartheid laws (Group Areas, Influx Control, Separate Amenities, etc.) which assisted the prof it system in creating wealth and luxury fora few and misery and suffering daily for the majority of South African blacks.

In organising volleyball, A VASA soon encountered tremendous suspicion in certain township areas. Through bitter experience our units soon discovered why volley­ball was often placed in the enemy camp:—

3|C the SADF (South African Defence Force) had introduced volleyball to involve black youth as a means of drawing them towards the SADF. In OFS, numerous reports confirmed how the Defence Force persona! used volleyball activities as a starting point in their campaign to “win hearts and minds". (W.H.A.M.)

Factory bosses had introduced volleyball in certain factories (although on different lines to the soccer Industrial Leagues) with particular aims. This generally meant absorbing and misdirecting energies of workers from their day-to-day struggles at work. The Ford Motor Plants in Port Elizabeth clearly demonstrated this development.

Despite these setbacks, attempts to start volleyball in Stanger, MarianhiU, Guguletu, New Brighton and Paarl were undertaken. Here again, the lack of equipment and finance made large scale activities virtually impossible. The 1983 season demonstrated the potential and growth of AVASA. The first National Inter-Club Tournament was held in Cape Town, in July 1983. Despite inadequate facilities, a lack of sponsorship and news coverage, a highly successful championship was held. Over 500 spectators witnessed a spectacular final between dubs from Natal and Western Province. Over 20 clubs participated from Transvaal, Western Province, Eastern Province and Natal in this historic tournament. In October of the same year, the first National Inter-Provincial was held in Port Elizabeth. In order to keep the international community informed, AVASA compiled a full memorandam on its activities and submitted it to the London Anti-Apartheid Conference. From various discussions, resolutions, workshops and activities, AVASA's alternative to ruling class sport emerged. This meant that the hidden values behind racist sport were identified and exposed. Beside infusing new values, Avasa undertook to move towards:—

introducing volleyball to ALL, especially workers in towns and/or countryside.

* actively opposing Racism, Sexism and Class exploitation.

Some of these ideas were engraved in AVASA's letterhead which declared, "We want an undivided, non-racial, non-exploitative and democratic South Africa/ Azania". Ironically, AVASA's approach to keep subscriptions at a bare minimum weakened us rather than helped to solve the lack of finance. In 1983 AVASA completed its year's activities on a budget of R1 ooo. In contrast, R25 000 was used in racist volleyball for the year.The ACM in Transvaal in March 1984 was characterised by AVASA's commitment to spread volleyball to the "masses" rather than a "chosen few". This was given concrete expression by the coaching clinics in Soweto and Lenasia. AVASA's national position through resolutions rejected in particular, entrenched separation aimed at patching up and rejuvenating the rotting profit system. The 1984 season, although badly disrupted, nevertheless, reflected a dynamic and creative approach to advancing the sports struggle. Some of the new approaches included:—

^ a tradition of mass council meetings wherever possible. This aimed at encouraging collective and broader participation in decision-making.

^ Planning of National coaching as well as staging an "additional National Tournament".

" i f Encouraging growth through unity in Natal, Eastern Province, Western Province, Transvaal, Border to our associate members SAPSSA and SASSSA.

The AG M in Transvaal in March 1984 was characterised by A V A SA 's commitment

A HWEIGHTLIFTING

South African "Multi-National body was expelled by the International Weightlifting Federation but exchanges tours with Taiwan, another expelled member.

YACHTING• White South Africa is a full member of the International Yacht Racing Union but only

takes part in some divisions by invitation of host country.

A black woman's application for membership of the Royal Natal Yacht Club (Durban) was rejected in a secret ballot and no reason for the rejection was given. She is reported

to be the first black to apply for membership of the club. She told the Sunday Tribune (December 16,1984) that her application was refused because she "is not white"

A spokesman for the Durban Country Club told the Natal Mercury (December 18,1984) that while the club "had international status and non-white guests were welcome" the club was not allowed to accept members "of other races in terms of a prohibition under the Group Areas Act"

Indian’s application to join Royal Natal Yacht Club goes sailing out the door

No Tdank’iV>lo Blacks!AiN Indian woman has been blackballed by Durban's exclu­sive all-white Royal N a ta l Y acht C lub after a secret ballot.

Kngrj fr iM d * of tko w oRiaa. 2S-jroor-oId m usic fiueoat Am iaa KboA. cUiffl Um only m - so* ktt sppUcaiioa was refused was because sb« n not white

By Chf}> Whitfidld

Gub officials said Her apphcatioa was pul to the vou in a ballot that was completely secret "and the reason people voted a|sinst her will never be haowa*

She IS understood to be Ibe first block to apply for membership of ibe club ______

Joho Evans, vico-com- modore and chairman of the yacbt club's general comnutlee, u id that the RNYC did not have any black membefv

Club members were enuUed to object to ap­plications for member­ship. They did not have to pve reasons, he said.

If there were six or mere objections, the ap­plication waa pul to the vote. The hallot was se­cret and there was no de­bate on why a person Aould not be admitted as

M iss Kban. wbo stud­ied for her Masters is mnsic this year, said"Fnends told me people were lobbying against me on racial grounds —

they were people wbo doo't even know mo.

‘ .Most of them wore the old W orld W ar } types who spend their time in the bar reliving their tspcncncet They never came out and met me They were prepared to fight Hitler s racism in Uk war. but they art now nettts themselves."

A ytchling friend el the student said there

could have DeetTobly dtft reason for M iss Khan's application being re ­fused: "Racism. There u no woy her behaviour or bockground would bavo led to ber being lurned down."

M r E van s sa id ibe club s constitution per­muted noo-whues in the dub building

" In fact. Ib crc are often people of all races

SCHOOL SPORTSThe following report was received from the secretary of the South African Primary School's Sports Association, Mr E. Yon.

SOUTH AFRICAN PRIMAR Y SCHOOLS ’ SPOR TS ASSOCIA TIONThe activities of the S.A.P.S.S.A. for the year 1984, started off with the Athletics and Tennis Champion­ships, which were held at the Union Stadium in Newlands, Johannesburg on the 3 and 4 April 1984. This tournament was an outstanding success.

In July, the Secretary and Treasurer of S.A.P.S.S.A., travelled to Oudtshoorn to give guidance to South

T.R. Mackay Western Districts on how to set about in organisingPresident the Winter Codes' Tournament, which will be staged

in George, during the first week of July 1985. The President, Vice-President and Secretary of S.A.P.S.S.A. had a discussion with Mr R.K. Reddy, President of SASF and Mr /. Rensburg, an executive member ofSASF, at the Alpha Primary School in July 1984. At this meeting Mr R.K. Reddy, made it dear that there should be closer liaison between the Schools' organisations and SASF. He also stressed that all units of SASF would be instructed to assist the Schools whenever an appeal is made to the local units of SASF.

S.A.P.S.S.A. was represented at the South African Cricket Board Meeting held in September 1984 at Port Elizabeth. Here, the SACB expressed its willing­ness to assist the schools whenever called upon. Officials of the Transvaal Board acted as delegates of S.A.P.S.S.A. at the SASF Council Meeting held in Lenasia on 18 September 1984, during their inter­provincial tournament. Officials, Messrs A.A. Rose and N. Harase, of Natal attended the Fact-Finding Commissions' Meeting on Swimming with Mr Mackay. It was at these meetings attended by the

representatives of S.A.P.S.S.A., that it became evident that the adult sporting bodies were very eager to assist schools when the need arose. This clearly indicates the close co-operation that exists between the affiliates of SACOS.

E. Yon Secretary

Due to lack of sponsorship, S.A.P.S.S.A. reluctantly cancelled the cricket and swimming tournaments which were supposed to have been staged in Durban early in December 1984.

SOUTH AFRICAN SENIOR SCHOOLS’ SPORTS ASSOCIATIONMr R.A. Feldman, secretary of the South African Senior Schools' Sports Association, sent us the following report:

Reg Feldman Secretary

North West Districts, South codes of sport are catered for.

The association had its inaugural meeting on the 5th of April 1961 in the Nana Memorial Hall in Johannesburg.

Natal Western Province and Transvaal were the first units of SASSSA. The first officials were : Chairman Mr N. Rathinasamy, Secretary - Mr R.A. Feldman, Treasurer - Mr R.D. Ontong. Vice Presidents: Messrs V'. Nair (Natal) Mr D. De Beer (Weste; ' Province) Mr W.G. Gordon (Transvaal). The Membership of SASSSA now stands at 10 units. These are Boland, Border, Eastern Province, Karoo, Central, Natal, Cape, Transvaal and Western Province. The following

Sum m er: Cricket, Swimming, Tennis.Winter: Soccer, Rugby, Cross Country, Table Tennis, Chess, Volleyball, Netball,

Hockey (Boys and Girls)New Codes being considered: Gymnastics, Softball, Basketball.Activities for the period under review:April 1983: Athletics in Paarl.Ju' 1983: Soccer, Hockey (boys and girls) and Table Tennis in Kimberley. December 1983: Swimming in Oudtshoorn. Tennis in George and Mossel Bay. April 1984: Athletics in Port ElizabethJuly 1984: Rugby, Netball, Cross Country, Chess and Volleyball in Cape Town. December 1984: Swimming in Wynberg. Tennis in Worcester. Cricket in Stellenbosch.Forthcoming Activities: Athletics in Johannesburg.Soccer, Hockey and Table Tennis in Durban in July.Swimming, Tennis and Cricket in Cape Town in December.Present officials: Mr N. Rathinasamy, Chairman; Mr A. R. Moonsammy, Treasurer Mr R.A. Feldman, Secretary; Mr M.F. Sallie, Assistant Secretary.

The government's hypocrisy in saying that it genuinely wants mixed sport in this country and that it has no intention of interfering in this matter is clearly exposed by its

determination to keep school sport separated on the basis of colour.

The racist government's attitude on this issue was made quite clear in a press report (Sunday Tribune : September 4, 1983) when it stated "apartheid would remain inflexible in schools" (which would include school sport).

The state spends eight times more money on white pupils than it does on blacks (NM : February 14, 1984). R1385 was spent on each white child at school and R192 on each black child. This explains the disparity in the provision of sports facilities at black and white schools.

• In 1983, it was officially stated that the government was spending 240 times as much on furthering sport participation for each white child as it was on each black child i.e.

R9 900 000 on one million \^ite children and only R14,700 for the country's 3 600 000

black children. The R35,000 spent on visiting tug-o-war teams for white children was more than twice the amount spent on black children. (Star: May 5,1983)

The following picture from the Sunday Tribune (November 27, 1983) tells the story even more clearly:

It’s simple arithmetic, but the Nats can’t see that separate equals lapartheid!

The gap that has to be bridged to achieve equality. Above; A m on g the best on offer — the

playing fields of D H S a white school Below: Spartan provisions at the black M enzi H igh school

in Um lazi. •

A It is still illegal for a black school to meet a white school in a sporting fixture. "Per- mission (permits) for inter-racial sporting events between schools in different group areas

was necessary........." The member of the Executive Committee for education in the CapeProvince, Mr Willem Bouwer, said his department's permission was required only for matches against teams which consist entirely of non-whites (A rgus: March 6,1985)

POLITICAL REPORT

‘Sports policy shows white man’s greed’• S r o A Political Staff

THE ASSEMBLY — Tbe Governmeot was s|>endiDg 240 times as much oo furthering sport participation for each white child as it was on each black child, the Assembly has been told.

Mr Ken Andrew (PFP, Gardens) said this was “an astonish­ing manifestation of selfishness and greed".

Speaking in last night's debate on tbe National Education bud­get vote, he said the figure was an example of what hap­pened to a community that bad no political rights.

Mr Andrew said that in tbe Cape Peninsula about 3 000 black high school children had one sports field.

Last year R9,9-miUion of public funds was 1 spent on furthering sport participation for j one million white primary and secondary schoolchildren, but only R14 700 was spent on sport for the country’s 3,6* million black pri­mary and secondary school children.

The R35 000 spent on visiting tug-of-war teams for white children was more than was spent on black school-going children.

Earlier Mr Dave Dalling (PFP, Sandton) | said that in 1982 IHc for each black school ' child was spent annually on an estimated \900 000 who played sport.

“This is surely a hgure to be ashamed of.And it speaks volumes for the lack of inter­est the Minister is showing in tbe sporting activities of black children," be said.

The sub-department of sport bad also spent R129 000 last year to further cruising (a form of yachting) which was “a rich mao’s sport" enjoyed by about 1 700 ^ utb Africans.

Tbe Minister of National Ekiucatlon, Dr Gerrit Vlljoeo, told the Assembly that the backlog of black sporting facilities needed urgent attention. Replying to Opposition criticism, he said his department was aware there was a great need for sports facili­ties in the black, coloured and Indian communities.

But there was also a housing backlog in those communi­ties and it was a question of priorities.

Dr Viljoen said more attention would be given to tbe joint use of communal facilities.

Mr Ken Andrew

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more spent on white pupilsParliamentary Correspondent

EIGHT times more money a pupil is spent on the education of white chil­dren in South .Africa than on blacks.

This has been revealed in w ritten re p lie s by Cabinet m inisters last week and yesterday to questions in Parliament by the OfTicial Opposition spokesman on education. Mr Horace van Rensburg.

The .Minister of Educa­tion and Training. .Mr Barend du Plessis. said in the 1982-83 financial year KI92 had been spent on each black child, includ­ing capital expenditure. The per capita costs ex­cluding capital expendi­ture were R146.

T h e M i n i s t e r o f National Education. Dr Gerrit Viljoen. said in a written reply to a ques­tion that during the same

period R1 385 a head had been sp en t on w hite school children through­out the country — includ­ing cap ital costs. The amount a head, excluding capita! costs, was R1 211

The -Minister of Inter­nal .Affairs. -Mr F \V de Klerk, said during the 1982-83 financial year there were an average of about 738 260 coloured pupils at school and col­leges each day. During that time R377 304 938 was spent on coloured ed u ca tio n . A fu r th e r R72624 750 was spent of capital development.

This gave an average per capita expenditure, including capital costs, of R593.

Mr de K lerk said in 1983. 1 255 coloureds and 1 323 Indians were given ministerial permission to study at white universi­ties in South Africa.

After being dormat for a few years the Border Council of Sport finally emerged again at a resuscitation meeting in September 1984. At this meeting Messrs F. van der Horst, R. Uran, A A. Zinn and I. Rensburg addressed the codes of sport and since then things seem to be pro­gressing. This year we have already kicked off with two successful meetings where the following codes were present: Chess, Soccer, Mens Hockey, womens hockey, cricket, swimming and volleyball. Darts have communicated with us and attended the last meeting as observers.

Unfortunately there seems to be complete unwillingness on the part of the Border Rugby to come forward. Sub-unions of this organization have indicated their willingness to participate but we wish to involve the Board first. The absence of Senior and Primary schools is at present still being investigated. We have had inquiries from Karate (O YAM A ATAPO K A R A T E CLUB), Road Running and Badminton clubs about affiliation.

Because of the dormancy we have decided to start right at the beginning.

The following issues are on the agenda for future meetings and it will be appreciated if we could get contributions from other centres.

(a) Use of certain venues (e.g. city hall as a community centre)

(b) The Ciskei Council of Sport which the Ciskei government is in the process of

establishing.

(c) The formation of a committee to control sports facilities.

(d) Border C.O.S. sportweekend - possibly September.

(e) B.C.O.S. Sportsperson of the year.

(f) Junior sport and coaching schemes.

(g) A monthly newsletter.

The Border Council of Sport Executive for 1985 is as follows:

President

General Secretary

General Secretary

Minutes Correspondence

Publication Secretary

Treasurer

Executive Members

Mr J. Bennet

Mr T. Augustine

Mr G. Fredericks

Miss H. Frita

Mr A. Fritz

Mr R. Rayner

E. Bell, R. Pillay and J. Shearer

In the period under review EPCOS, though it was beset by many problems emanating from the lack of co-operation from affiliates, did manage to get some important and valuable work done.

Raymond Uren

1. BREAKING DOWN OF RACIAL BARRIERS

Two meetings hosted by E.P. Amateur Athletic Association were held in November last year and February this year to discuss the linking of schools in the township to the non-racial school's sports bodies.

2. NON-RACIAL UNITY

Great strides have been made to promote unity among the non-racial codes here. Officials of the various codes have been invited to attend and to speak at the functions of some of the codes. The only disturbing obstacle to this trend is BERBOC who have once again negotiated a lease with the CMC to obtain yet another soccer field for their rugby matches.

3. SOCCER MERGER

In pursuance of the SACO S directive that racial barriers should be broken down, Kwa- zakhele Soccer Board, Eastern Province Soccer Board and Uitenhage and Districts Soccer Board have decided to form one non-racial soccer body in Eastern Cape. Plans for the merger are well in advance.

4. UITENHAGE SPORTS BOARD

Once again the Labour Party-Controlled Coloured Management Committee attempted togain control of the sports facilities in Uitenhage. The Administrator apparently acted in terms of amended ordinance which gives him the power to cancel the lease on the grounds that the Uitenhage Sports Board had withheld the sports facilities from certain

members of the community. The grounds were locked and non-racial sportspersons were denied access. But the matter was taken to court and once again the Uitenhage Sports Board triumphed.

A disturbing feature of this business was the treachery of three Uitenhage High Schools which attended a meeting called by the CMC to form another Sports Board, Disciplinary action has been taken against the three schools.

5. SACOS SPORTS PERSON OF THE YEAR

The first Sacos 'Sports Person of the Year' Award proved a popular event and promoted Sacos' image as a non-racial sports organisation. EPCOS is delighted to have been the

hosts of this important milestone in SA CO S 'S history. Whilst it is important that the financial success of the award will help alleviate at least some financial hardships the more important value of the award is that it has thrust some of the greatest non-racial sports persons into the national and international limelight - an honour they richly deserve.

A N T I-E L E C T IO N CAM PAIG N

EPCOS assisted progressive trade unions and civic organisations in forming a special body called Community Education Programme to co-ordinate the anti-election campaign in Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage. The main thrust was at grass roots level in the form of house-to house visits. On one such visit dedicated workers were threatened with violence by Labour Party thugs. Joint meetings with the DDF were also held and the President and Vice-President of EPCOS put the Sacos stand to the large crowds. The hard work of the CEP was rewarded by the low poll in the so-called "stronghold" of the Labour Party.

H A R A SSM EN T OF T EA C H ER S IN V O LV E D IN N O N -RAC IAL SPORT

The Labour Party seems intent on carrying out its vociferous threats made during the election campaign against so called "Sacos" teacher. The activities of several teachers, including the President of EPCOS, the Publications Secretary of Sacos and the Executive of the Uitenhage Sports Board, have been investigated for their role in the Anti-Election Campaign and the Uitenhage Sports Board case. In all cases the teachers refused to answer any questions that were not put in writing. A meeting of teachers on their

conditions of service was addressed by the Vice-President of Sacos and the President of EPCOS.

9. T R IA L OF A LA N Z IN N AN D IHRO N RENSBU RG

These officials were found guilty of entering a black township without a permit. The case went to the Appeal Court which confirmed the finding of the magistrate. In February this year the same two officials were arrested in the township by the same police officer, after attending a sports meeting called by E.P.A.A.A. to discuss non- racial school sport.

EPCOS believes that Sacos and its affiliates are not doing enough to support its officials who fall foul of the permit system.

10. M E R C IA ISAACS/ALAO O IN M C LEA N IN C ID EN TS

These two stage-managed incidents were the first salvoes in the attack on non-racial school sports organisations. Certain teachers were reported to the education authorities; the matter was discussed in parliament and a national press campaign of vilification followed. This indicates the extent to which the detractors of non-racialism have gone thus far in attacking the nursery of non-racial sport. Thanks to the support of non-racail sports persons nothing came of the charges against the teachers.

The meeting was attended by all the non-racial sports bodies in New Brighton, Kwa- zakhele, Zwide, EPCOS, E.P. Senior Schools Sports Union and progressive community, student and youth organisations. Cosas was given 30 days to investigate school sport and to report back to an Ad Hoc Committee which is to co-ordinate our strategy in promot­ing unity.

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The well known problem of Griqualand West, "lack of decent facilities", still exists and has caused the death of some codes, while others are just managing to keep their head above water. Our cricketers must make do with one private turf field presently available to them, more than 60 swimmers crowd our 25 yd x 16 yd (22,8m x 14,6m) swimming pool daily for training, the Women's Hockey and Men's Hockey fight daily over the use of the open piece of ground used for practices and fixtures by both organisations, and working out fixture times for more than 10 teams over one weekend has

become a headache. Trying to accomodate 200 soccer teams (seniors and juniors) on 9 fields and hoping to finish fixtures before October has become frustrating for soccer officials.

Lloyd Louw

While this is continuing the Kimberley City Council and their puppets, the I.M.C.'s and C.M.C.'s, are delaying development at the Eddie Williams Oval in the hope of frustrating our sportsmen to the extent that we give into their demand i.e. that all non-racial sportmen who play under the banner of South African Council on Sport state publicly their recognition of the "Ind ian" and "Coloured" Management Committees. We will not be blackmailed into forsaking our principles and choose to rather continue playing our sport on stones and on makeshift fields.

Throughout all this, progress has been made:

Soccer had a successful season, even though, it ended late. A local team (Spades Football Club) reached the S.A. Soccer Federations knockout finals. Even though the six new court i are inadequate, tennis clubs have been revived and fixtures Tulfilled. The availability of the courts to sch'odls has seen ^~~spdrf-T)nee-again bec^irtg very ntputar amongst sctiotarsr.”C5TTtral Schools were once again representedlh the recent S.A.S.S.S.A. Tennis tournament.

To accommodate men's hockey, the ladies hockey provincial team was forced to practise on the B-field of the rugby union which is very uneven and dangerous. Defying all the odds, our ladies did well at the South African Hockey Board's National Tournament. Men's hockey had a successful season and the Griqua team ended runners-up at the nationals. Griqualand West will also be hosting the 1985 national championships.

A very popular sport in Griqualand West, darts enjoy a large membership. Most of our dart clubs make use of hotels and halls for their fixtures. A serious problem is finding a venue large enough to accomodate a major tournament.

During the year, our darts union also hosted a very successful national champion club competit­ion in Kimberley, and the 1985 National Championships.

Swimming only started its season in November because the Municipality claimed to be doing maintenance at the pool (even though they had the whole off-season to do it). With our swimmers forced to train across the width of our pool, 15 yds (14,6m) for events which will be swum in a 50 metre pool coaches can only hope they do well at the national.

Weightlifting had a successful season and a squad of body builders took part in the national

championships which was held in Durban at the end of September 1984. The local enthusiasm has tesulted in the 1985 National Championships being hosted by Griqualand West.

Cricket once again started late in the season because of the temporary fields provided by the City Council not being ready (to date these fields are still not ready). Our thanks go to a private club which allowed the Cricket Union and the schools to make use of its field (the only turf field available to our players). The Cricket Union was also forced to apply for another open piece of ground, and had to prepare and maintain the matting wicket itself. Despite these setbacks, the cricketers had a successful season. Griqua­land West won their section of the sponsored Benson & Hedges 50-0vers series and go on to play in a play-off for the

Brian Hermanns quarter finals.

G.W.R.U. is in the fortunate position of having its own rugby field. The biggest problem they have however is to maintain these fields. Sponsorship is nil and the rugby union has to overtax its players to keep rugby going. The rugby field is also used during the week by the schools as there is no other field available for them. Griqualand West played in the " A " Section of the South African Rugby Union-S.A. Cup Competition, but did not fair too well

NATAL COUNCIL OF SPORTLike all provincial councils of sport, our council endeavours to unite all provincial codes of sport in a meaningful way. Sportpersons of varying persuasions affiliate to our council in order to co-ordinate their various activities and their common struggle for the achievement of true non racialism in sport and society. One of our primary aims is to unite A L L non racial sports codes so that we speak with a truly united voice on all vital matters affecting sport. Progress in this direction is hampered by, inter alia, opportunists and collaborationists, who for their own selfish ends, do not see

the need for a united stand. Nevertheless after much hard work our council has succeeded in uniting the most progressive sporting codes and is playing a very important role in the struggle for equality of opportunity at all levels in sport and society.

Nacos has affiliated to it most of the codes where organised sport is played. Our council played a significant role in the formation of SonaKwazbo in 1983/84. The birth of this body saw the merger in Southern Natal of the non racial Southern Natal Soccer Board and the so called "African" Soccer Board. This body now caters for all non racial amateur soccer in Southern Natal. Our president played a prominent role in this merger as convenor of the pro-tern committee. Like the formation of TA SA and A SA SA in recent years this merger was indeed another significant milestone in the history of non racial sport. Apart from Sonakwazbo our council assisted in the formation in our province of new non racial codes such as badminton, netball, and volleyball. With the co-operation of the Natal High Schools Sports Federation we are at the moment encouraging and assisting in the formation of chess. Some codes which have not yet been organised within the non racial fold are: angling, boxing and cycling. One of the biggest problems facing codes withing our folds is either the shockingly poor facilities or the total lack of them. The latter may be just one of the reasons why, for example, cyclists commited to our cause, have shown little or no interest in organising this code of sport. While on this vast, thorny and vexed question of venues, it is important to note that the code of

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athletics, «A/hich is very popular with both High and Primary School children, has only one track which non racial athletes can use. It has been reported to us that this track is in need of urgent attention. Our council is obliged to give this matter its very serious attention if we are to stop the luring away of some of our less committed athletes to totally unacceptable venues such as Kings Park.

In order to disseminate policy we have addressed our members at various meetings and functions. Symposia have also been held. We organised a very successful "Administrator's Course" which was well attended and well received.

The ever increasing cost of living and travelling has added another dimension to our council's earlier decision to explore and encourage the formation of regional councils of sport in our province. The idea was mooted and accepted in principle and at the present time our council is looking at, for a start, the Pietermaritzburg and Ladysmith areas as focal points. In additim to this we plan to arrange workshops in the main areas throughout the province.

On issues of common interest our council works with trade unions and other community based organisations. In this country we realise that all aspects of our lives are inter-linked and indivisi­ble. The most recent example of our work with and support of community based organisations is the campaign to discredit the recent sham elections and the undemocratic tri-cameral parliament.

TRAN SVAAL COUNCIL ON SPORT

THE T R A N S V A A L COUNCIL ON SPORT (Tracos) has been in existence for almost eight years.

Council meetings are held on a monthly basis, but unfortunately they have not been very well attended.

OUR ACTIVITIES

The Annual 'Sportsperson of the Year' function was held on Saturday 1 December 1984. This was a joint venture as the Transvaal Soccer Board (TSB) presented trophies at the same function. The function was attended by approximately 450 people. It was a sporting and social success. The guest speaker was Mr Ebrahim Patel of the South African Rugby Union (SARU) and his speech was very well received by those present. The ten (10) nominees came from the following codes of sport:- Soccer, table tennis, darts, swimming and cricket. The Sportsperson pf the Year for the Transvaal was MOKOTJO MOTA of the Southern Transvaal Amateur Swimming Association.

The Council has decided to continue holding this function in conjunction with an activity such a trophy presentation of one or more of its affiliates.

FUTURE PLANS

1. The Council intended holding a regional sports festival during October 1984. Un­fortunately activities organised by our affiliates forced us to postpone the festival.

Plans are already afoot to hold this festival in October this year with the following codes of sport participating: Soccer, tennis, darts, table tennis, swimming, cricket, hockey (men and women), and Transvaal High Schools and Primary Schools. One of the features will be a mass gathering of all competitors where they will be addressed by prominent sportspersons.

2, The Transvaal Council On Sport has been honoured by being allocated the South African Council on Sport Sportsperson 1985 function. The function will be held on Saturday 2 November 1985 at Cathedral Place, Johannesburg.

WESTERN PROVINCE COUNCIL OF SPORT1984 was a turbulent year for the Western Province Council of Sport, as it appeared to be caught within the cross­currents, contradictions and dilemmas, commonly related to those of any other organisation similarly founded on the aims and principles of the democratic non-racial cause.

The toughest test has yet to come: the State's "Declaration of Intent" to "intergrate" sport comes in many guises and the talons of hypocrisy are penetrating and encroaching everywhere. Sport and the "new deal" is the on-going theme

of discussion, but school sport on all levels remain the prime target of attack. The Uitenhage debacle bears a grim testimony to the voracious appetite of the Labour Party. On the home front, the "UW C Debate", the confusion it is made to cause; the digression from principles and strategy is a direct example of the success of the "divide and rule" policy, and the campaign against the South African Council on Sport.

The Western Province Council of Sport must survive. But it cannot exist on idealism, impotency and high-minded sentiment within or without the organisation. It needs the support of all twenty-six affiliates; it needs clear-headed rationality not conventionality; it needs stratagem, not only dialogue in order to meet the oppressors of this country on their own inhuman terms, through the medium of non-racial sport.

UITENHAGE DETERM INATIONUnity among teachers, students and parents, on matters affecting the community, was once again, clearly demonstrated when people in the Uitenhage and Port Elizabeth areas refused to let the dummy management committee take control of the sports ground in Uitenhage.

Because of the importance and seriousness of the matter, the following day-by-day description of the events, which tells the complete story, is shown:

21.1.85 Labour Party controlled C.M.C. initiates rival sports body to the Uitenhage Sports Board (est. 23 years ago). Three High School Principals attended the C.M.C. meeting together with representativess from three breakaway Primary Schools, Evergreens Rugby and Lily White Cricket dub (both 'normal')

Same evening — Uitenhage Sports calls solidarity meeting of all codes. 18codes attend with 60 delegates.

26.1.85 E.P.A.A.A. athletes locked out at Rosedale (Uitenhage) Sports Fields.U.S.B. applies for urgent court interdict.

27.1.85 ROSA soccerites and spectators (i 500) invade the locked Jubilee Park Sportsgrounds and play their fixtures.

28.1.85 John Walton (JW) students demand explanation from Principal in forming a C.M.C. - sponsored steering committee to control the sports- fields.

30.1.85 Students back in class awaiting outcome of court interdict.

4.2.85 C.M.C. and Uitenhage Town Council withdraw their pathetic case against the sportspersons of Uitenhage.

5.2.85 E.P. Senior Schools Union meeting unanimously decides that the 3 Hig Schools in Uitenhage commit themselves in writing to the non- racial principles and policies of E.P.S.S. U. If the ultimatum was not met by 20.2.85 the schools would have deemed to have terminated their membership.

12.2.85 JW students boycott classes and demand that the Principal commit the school to the requirement of the E.P.S.S.S.U. He refuses to speak to them. Students stay out and continue boycott.

14.2.85 JW student detained by S.B. Pupils demand his release by 10 o'clock. Victory for students as detainee released. Students chant slogans while the Principal hides in his office.

15.2.85 Students demand an end to harassment by S B. Chief Inspector Jansen; Circuit Inspector and Regional Representative arrive. Students disrupt senior staff meeting hosted by these C.A.D. inspectors.

The police arrive. Teachers surround police and armoured vehicle and request them to leave. Police back-off. School dosed for day by Chief Inspectoral 11.30 a.m.

18.2.85 JW still boy CO tting classes.

Posters/Slogans demand the removal of the Principal and the caretaker of the school (Vice-Chairperson of the C.M.C.) who are both known Labour Party supporters.

Uitenhage High students boycott demanding a commitment from their Principal to the E.P.S.S.S.U. Principal calls in the police. Before arrival of the police the Principal reportedly sent his own son home. A brutal attack on the defenceless students follows. 21 Students receive medical treatment at Uitenhage Hospital. Some will bear permanent scars.

19.2.85

20.2.85

Evening: Mass meeting of Parents and students demand removal of the quisling Stanley Japhtha (The Principal). An Action Committee is elected to pursue the demand.

Japhtha refuses to resign. Boycott continues at both schools. Deputy Director of the C.A.D., C. Beukes arrives to investigate. Beukesinstructs teachers to be postmen, to distribute letter requesting parents to indicate whether they want their children to return to classes.

Exercise a flop. Less than 1% schools)

of parents return forms. (At both

Action Committee meets Deputy Director, C.A.D., Beukes demanding Japhtha's removal.

Beukes meets JW students. Students demand end to S.B. harassment- withdrawal of the C.A.D. circular of the previous day and a meeting with the parents at which they will publicly air their demands.

Action Committee calls public meeting at which parents and students of both schools are present (± 1 000).

Parents show solidarity with students and agree with the demand for the dismissal of the principals.

Mothers make passionate plea denouncing the situation where their children cannot sleep at home for fear of S.B. harassment.

21.2.85 3 Students at Uitenhage High detained at 5.20a.m. by S.B. Same day: a C.M.C. Executive member who visits Uitenhage High involved in scuffle with boycotting students.

22.2.85 Morning: 3 students released and charged with public violence. Released on bail subject to strict conditions, amongst others that they do not interfere with state witnesses, one of whom is Stanley Japhtha.

1.00 p.m. — Chief Inspector informs Uitenhage and JW that schools to be dosed indefinitely.

24.2.85 Meeting of parents to discuss the situation. Meeting addressed by the President of SACOS. SACOS calls for unity and endorsed the demands of the people.

25.2.85 AH Port Elizabeth secondary schools and Dower College out on boycott. At JW and Uitenhage Secondary School principals instruct

, teachers to carry on with "constructive work".

26.2.85 Situation at schools unchanged. UNISCO meeting the evening - attended by about 2000people. Meeting addressed by Vice-President of NAAWU & Chairman of Uitenhage Parents' Action Committee, COSAS. Call for 100% boycott. Demands of students read.

27.2.85 Meeting of parents, students and teachers. Election of PTSA's. Committee elected. Indication from priest that in future church hall might not be available.

In P.E. meeting of parents and students of Bethelsdorp Secondary. Labour Party supporters placed strategically in hall — criticise boycott and support from staff. Steering Committee consisting of six parents, three teachers and three students elected.

1.3.85 Transfer of teachers to Walvis Bay, Pietersburg and Postmasburg. Decision to challenge the legality of transfers.

Teachers to report for duty in new posts on 6.3.85.

2.3.85 Meeting of 100 Uitenhage teachers, expressing solidarity with and support for teachers transferred.

3.3.85 Joint PTSA's Steering Committee holds public meeting in Uitenhage. SACOS President, EPCOS President address meeting.

4.3.85 Meeting of about 1000 teachers, addressed by S A C O S President.

Decisions: To support the three teachers; to consider strike action; Steering Committee elected to work on support and the advisability of establishing a progressive teachers' organization;

DURING THIS WEEK THREE STUDENTS AT DOWER SUSPENDED. TEACHERS AT SCHOOLS IN PORT ELIZABETH AND UITENHAGE DISCUSS WAYS AND MEANS TO SUPPORT THE DEMANDS OF PARENTS, TEACHERS AND STUDENTS IN UITENHAGE.

7.3.85 A. FOSATU mass meeting of workers considering strike action insupport.

B. News from the attorney that Transfers had been reversed.Schools would be opened unconditionally Students would be re-admitted unconditionally

C. Mass meeting of about 1200 teachers decide to establish the teachers' organization. Back-down by CAD seen as a victory for the people. Labour Party and CTPA vehemently attacked.

D. Workers' and teachers' strikes averted by news of the capitulation.

E. Meeting addressed by chairman of W.P.S.S.S. U.

8.3.85 Harker, principal at John Walton, put on sick-leave.

10.3.85 Mass meeting in Uitenhage. Parents request that students return to classes on 11.3.85. Students at one school adamant that they will continue to boycott until all demands have been met.

11.3.85 Schools re-opened - students still out on boycott although unity suffers as some students want to return to classes.

12.3.85 Meeting of students decide to call off the boycott.

13.3.85 A few students still out on boycott.

14.3.85 Students harass Japtha, principal at Uitenhage S.S. as he leaves school escorted by chief inspector and circuit inspector.

15.3.85 Japtha put on sick leave. It is also "learnt" that Japtha would be going on extended furlough for the second quarter and that he would be starting a new job at the CAD offices in Cape Town. It is also strongly rumoured that Marker would not be returning to John Walton.

20.3.85 Students' suspension at Dower reversed by the authorities.

■ ■ and _ ■iberatiior^CONFERENCE

The Special Conference was called because of the concerted attacks by the Central Governement, provincial and local authorities on the South African Council on Sport and its affiliated who were committed to the struggle for non-racialism in sport and society. The conference took place in Cape Town in August 20 and 21,1983.

As part of the attack multi-national sports organisations embarked on extensive international propaganda campaigns. The South African Rugby Board arranged an International Rugby Media Conference for Cape Town on August 22,1983. Rugby writers, officials of organisations and politicians will dispose to multinational sport were invited to attend. They were to be addressed by Cabinet Ministers, members of the opposition, the "Coloured" Labour Party and the racially constituted South African Rugby Federation ("Coloured") and tbe South African Rugby Association ("African").

An expensive itinerary published by the S.A. Rugby Board and distributed overseas listed addresses by SACO S officials in the Media Conference Agenda. At no time prior to the circulation of this glossy brochure were any of the SACO S administrators officially consulted about the inclusion of their names in this brochure The conclusion drawn at the time was that their names were used internationally to create the impression that SACO S and its officials were party to the treacherous attempts to fool and mislead the outside world.

The Executive of SACO S in consultation with its affiliates decided on principle that no indi­vidual from the organisation would be party to the fraud. Instead a conference of N AT IO N AL U N ITY of all oppressed and exploited sportspersons was called.

Nearly two thousand invitations were extended to National Sport Organisations, provincial units, clubs, trade unions, schools, civic organisations and youth movements.

Over a thousand delegates attended the two day conference and messages of support were received from over 200 organisations locally and a large number from overseas.

Papers on

* Sport and the nation

* Sport and the worker

* Sport and the constitutional proposals

* Sport and the student

* The role of the non-racial sportsperson in the liberatory struggle were delivered.

The Conference chairman emphasized that the papers delivered did not necessarily reflect the official views of SACO S but were tabled for the purpose of streamlining discussions.

The presence of the conference of delegates from all the progressive trade unions was significant since they represented the sports aspirations of those millions of individuals who were being deprived from playing sport because of their political oppression, economic exploitation and general social position.

The purpose of the meeting, namely to confirm the commitment of sportspersons to the liberatory struggle and to involve the rank and file sportspersons in active struggle in association with other organisations and to put the oppressed and exploited working class in the vanguard of the liberatory struggle, was adequately covered.

Multi-national sport was completely rejected and the need for unity of all progressive people's organisations clearly demonstrated.

The autonomy of SACO S as an organisation representing the sports aspiration of the oppressed and exploited masses was successfully demonstrated and any idea of the organisation formally linking up with one or the other tendency in the liberatory struggle totally rejected. At the con­clusion of the conference the following manifesto was unanimously adopted.

SACOS Manifesto on Sport in an Apartheid Society

This mass conference of delegate and observers from non-racial sports codes and associated organisations throughout South Africa/Azania have deliberated on and examined the position of the South African Council on Sport on the basic questions concerning sport in an apartheid society. The conference has once again confirmed and adopted the following concepts which serve to guide the policy and practice of non-racial sportspersons in South Africa as it is affected by the "New Deal."

1. On Multi-National Sport

1.1 SACOS rejects the policy and practice of multi-national sports as being nothing more than apartheid sport. Non-racial sports is the direct opposite of and a threat to multi-nationalism which is the brain child of racial capitalism. Consequently, the practice of multi-national sport is a facade which is calculated to deceive the international community into believing that there is no racial discrimination in South African sport.

1.2 SACOS continues to hold that "multi-national sport" is one of the pillars on which the ideological and political structure of the South African system rests. It is calcu­lated to re-inforce among the people of our country the belief that they belong to different "nations" and "ethnic groups". Multi-national sport is the ideal policy in the sport arena to implement one of the main goals of the "New Deal" strategy of the Botha regime, viz, to divide the black working class in order to weaken their resistance to this bankrupt system.

On the Moratorium on International Tours

2.1 Apartheid is the expression of the system of racial capitalism that has developed in South Africa over more than three centuries. This system has aborted the develop­ment of the nation in South Africa in that the ruling class of white capitalist have for their own profit, denied to the vast majority of people of our country full citizenship rights. Because of this, SACO S holds that no team of sportspersons, however chosen, can at best represent South Africa/Azania. We are not willing to serve the sectional interests of the ruling class by encouraging teams or individuals representing foreign nations to tour South Africa, or by allowing non-racial sports- persons or teams to tour outside South Africa.

2.2 Any "South African" team of whatever colour, that tours outside this country, represents nothing more than white domination, apartheid and racial discrimination. Only a future South Africa/Azania free of oppression and exploit­ation will produce teams and individuals that can rightfully represent our people on the basis of dignity and self respect.

3. On Double Standards

3.1 No persons, whether they be players, administrators or spectators who are committed to the non-racial principle in sport shall participate in or be associated with any code of sport that practices or condones racialism and "multi­nationalism". The principle of non-racialism and anti-racism should be observed in all spheres of life and SACO S affiliates are expected to educate their members to­wards understanding the importance of this point. As far as sport is concerned, and administrators who disregard this principle are held to be guilty of practising double standards and cannot therefore be members of any organisation affiliated to and associated with SACOS.

3.2 Any individual who serves on any government-created political or quasi-political body such as the SA IC, Management Committees, Community Councils, President's Council or Bantustan Assemblies is held to be guilty of transgressing this principle.

On a single undivided non-racial Democratic Azania/South Africa

SACO S believes that non-racial sport can only be played in a new South Africa/Azania free of oppression and exploitation.

We believe therefore, that the struggle for non-racial sport is part and parcel of the liberation struggle and call on all non-racial sportspersons and organisations to promote and support in all possible ways this struggle on a principled basis.

5. On breaking of artificial racial barriers

5.1 SACO S calls upon all sports organisations of the oppressed to actively take steps to break down all artificial "racial" barriers created by the state and to form single non- racial provincial sports organisations of the oppressed and exploited prople.

5.2 SACOS also calls upon them to review their present provincial boundaries to ensure that sportspersons in "homelands" and "independent" states within the boundaries of South Africa are included in National organisations.

M ALNUTRIT ION AND SPORT

When a country claims to practise a Christian democracy produces one of the highest infant mortality ra'es in the Western world just how much credence can anyone lend to its claims that an international polecat has now in truth become a cuddlesome teddy bear? This is in effect what the faithful defenders of South Africa's unjust cause are claiming. While they try to purvey the tall story of just how noble and loving oppressors have become on the sportsfield, nearly 30 000 babies are dying annually from the dreaded disease of malnutrition.

The land that is famed for its sunny skies, braaivleis and rugby is equally notorious for its dark clouds of oppression, survival on scrapheaps, and the almost genocidal proposition of the death of innocent babies who could perhaps one day also have become sporting greats were it not for the viciousness of the apartheid regime.

There will be those who may ask what malnutrition has to do with Sports. It has everything to do with sports just as it has everything to do with the protection of the sanctity of the lives of those on whose backs privileged white sportsmen have ridden to enjoy the best that apartheid has provided. But there is a more cogent reason why South Africa's claims of an emerging free sports dispensation must be weighed against its shameful record of death through starvation. It is all a matter of blatant dishonesty by a privileged minority, desperate to get back Into international competition.

For many years now proponents of the multi-national sports system have been promoting the myth that South Africa's black children enjoy as much opportunities in sport as the white child. In support of their campaign, thousands of glossy pictures of smiling black children revelling in sport have been distributed for international consumption.

This campaign of deception that there is no deprivation in South African sports represents a calculated attempt to discredit SACO S 's view that the real picture of just how deprived blacks are in this country is a frightening one. SACO S has consistently maintained that the viciousness of apartheid has never made it possible for the majority of children to develop adequately and to participate in sports as equals.

VICIOUS

Apartheid is a vicious disease. It strangles the natural growth of the majority of its victims from conception. And the disadvantage they suffer from birth is compounded by a wide range of

psychological, environmental and political factors that confront their entire existence. In such an enviroment of the mass-scale deprivation of the rights of the growing child, any claim that genuinely non-racial and free sports opportunities for all has been achieved must be rejected for the lie that it is.

In the South African context it is inconceivable that there can be sports for sports sake. The development of a free, united and non-racial sports dispensation can only be possible within a system of existence that ensures that children have an equal opportunity of growth and social interaction. Yet, behind the smiling faces of innocent black children purveyed in propaganda packages for the international market emerges the real horror of what is going on.

In 1982, in an investigation into malnutrition conducted by an eminent paediatrician attached to the University of Natal, it was found that nearly 30 000 children died annually as a result of starvation for prolonged periods. In a land abounding with agricultural and mineral wealth the cause of malnutrition has been attributed to the socio-political reality of life inSouth Africa. The small percentage of children who may recover from the disease are only provided with symptomatic relief because they are sent back to the same socio -political environment which caused their malnutrition. These children would quite likely return to hospital with the same complaint later or die back in the barrenness of the rural areas.

In 1984, in a Carnegie investigation into poverty in South Africa, it was found that a third of Black children were underweight and stunted for their age. In some areas the percentage was as high as 70. One of the striking reasons for poverty was the re-settlement of Black communities to barren land where agriculture prospects are almost nil. This ensures that this country has a starving standby population waiting to be absorbed into the hoplessly cheap labour market.

BLACK POVERTY

At a Carnegie Conference held at the University of Cape Town in April 1984, one of the bleakest pictures of the rampant extent of poverty in South Africa emerged. Influx control was singled out as a major factor in Black poverty.

In an analysis of government grants for foster care it was found that whereas R114 per month was spent for the "white" child, R77 was spent for the "Coloured" and "Indian" child, and R40 for the "African" child.

The Carnegie Conference was also told of the story of a Black worker in an apple orchard who was suffering from scurvy. When asked why he did not eat some apples, which could have prevented the scurvy, he replied that the apples were for the white man.

This is reality. This is the reality of life in South Africa that the ambassadors of apartheid hide when they boast of a so-called free sports dispensation. The Barlows, the Cravens, the Pamenskys, can continue their shallow commitment "to rid sports apartheid" with the Carlisles and the Sutherlands of this world as their potent allies. For as long as they refuse to lift a finger to eradicate the real causes of the sports tragedy in South Africa their campaigns will be of little consequence. A system of political rule that destroys life in its infancy can never boast of true guardianship of the children of this land. How then can it talk of free and equal sports?.

Collection Number: AG3403 Collection Name: Non-racial Sports History Project, Transvaal

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