TENNIS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH AFRICATASA has its roots in the Non-Racial movement that has grown and developed in the ranks of the oppressed during, especially, the last three decades.

Tennis, as indeed all codes of sport for the have-nots of South African society, started off as an ethnic activity with all aspects of it strictly in line with the ethnic divisions the rulers created and reinforced statutorily and institutionally.

We were denied membership of existing organisations while our contributions to the wealth of this country were used to provide them the best possible facilities. We were forced to develop separately and to create our own "aparte" institutions. However, the arrogance spawned by their ideology utterly un­derestimated our basic humanity: our claim to be full mem­bers of the human race, and our determination to share equally the rights, privileges and responsibilities of this society.

In 1962 the formation of the Southern Africa Lawn Tennis Union sought to break down the ethnic divisions in our code of sport. Despite its various successes in this respect, the SALTU did not have the true non-ethnic base that was en­visaged.

In 1979 the South African National Lawn Tennis Union and SALTU merged to form the TASA in order to create a more effective vehicle to promote Non-Racial tennis.During this, its first, decade TASA boasts a membership far more representative of the future South African nation than any other tennis controlling body in this country. In addition it has arranged tournaments in areas which have previously been starved of tennis on a national scale.Tennis coaching entered a new dimension when TASA held its first training course for coaches in 1987 under the direc­tion of three of its most experienced coaches. 36 trainee coaches attended the first course and it is planned to have this annually. In addition, at least one coach will go overseas to acquaint himself with the latest Continental coaching methods. This, too, will be extended in the future.A problem which TASA will have to address seriously is the poverty that denies so many of our youth the opportunity to play tennis. Another is the inactivity in a few isolated areas. However, with the dedication and commitment that exist in our ranks, these carf and will be overcome sooner rather than later.

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CHESS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH AFRICACAPSA, the Chess Association for the People of South Africa, is a relatively young organisation and celebrates its fourth birthday soon after the Sacos Festival.It was founded in 1984 under the banner of the South African Chess Association. This, however, was also the name of the other national association and for purposes of clarity the non- racial unit last year changed its name to the Chess Associa­tion for the People of South Africa.CAPSA was formed with five units - Boland, Border, Eastern Province, Transvaal and Western Province - and promotion­al work resulted in Natal, Sasssaand S.atisa joining their ranks during the past two years.Chess plays an important supportive role in chess at school level. In the various provinces the provincial units of CAPSA assist with the running of coaching clinics during school vaca­tions. In the Western Cape alone the chess trials of WPSSSU involves about 500 scholars.Since its inception CAPSA has made remarkable progress in the international arena.CAPSA’s international representative and true friend, Mr Jerome (Jerry) Bibuld, lives in New York, and between him and CAPSA they had the South African Chess Federation ex­pelled from the international body FIDE in 1986.CAPSA also informed FIDE’s "Commission on South Africa" of the presence and activities of the Argentinian Grandmaster, Miguel Quinteros, in South Africa.This move resulted in Quinteros being suspended from chess tournaments staged by FIDE and affiliates of FIDE.Annual tournaments are the Easter National Open Champion­ships and the National Closed Chess Championships in December.Winners of these events include Deon Solomons, Shabier Bhawodien, Maxwell Solomon (all WP) and Deon Pick of Boland. Last year also saw the first South African Scholars Open Chess Championship. This was held in Cape Town and was won by Ravi Naidoo of Natal.

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Andre van Reenen watching a game played with giant chess pieces.

A study of concentration

SOUTH AFRICAN TERTIARY INSTITUTION SPORTS ASSOCIATIONTHIS student organisation had its beginnings in informal ath­letics and rugby tournaments held between three colleges, namely Hewat, South Cape and Dower.Later, in 1975, a formal organisation known as the South African Teachers’ Training Colleges Sports Association came into being through the initiative of the rectors of the col­leges.Although only colleges operating under the then Department of Coloured Affairs belonged to the organisation, the ideal from the ouset was to establish a non-racial students’ or­ganisation. The motto chosen spells out the ideal: Unitas in Ludo.Annual tournaments were organised, but staggered holidays of colleges administered by different departments, remained a problem. Colleges operating under the Department of Education and Training were invited regularly to take part in the tournaments.However, on occasion some of these colleges, notably Soweto College of Education, did participate in SATTCSA tourna­ments.This strong unit paved the way for affiliation to SACOS.The name was changed to the South African Tertiary Institutions’ Sports Association (SATISA) in 1985 - and along with it came a change of constitution which allowed all tertiary institutions to affiliate.Since then the University of the Western Cape, Peninsula Technikon and Minnie Hefmeyr College for Social Workers have affiliated.Another important point in the new constitution was that stu­dents could be elected to the executive, which previously con­sisted only of lecturers.However, we are proud to report that it is in essence a student organisation with students making decisions. There is, however, a healthy relationship between students, rectors and lecturers in the running of the organisation.SATISA caters for two tournaments a year and include rugby, soccer, netball, athletics, volleyball, chess, softball, swim­ming, darts, hockey, tennis, table tennis and cricket.

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It is, however, costly to host these tournaments and serious consideration is being given to the viability of two tourna­ments a year, especially in the absence of sponsorship.In conclusion we re-iterate our commitment to lion-racial sport and to bring about a non-racial democratic South Africa.

ANTI'APARTHEID’BEWEOIING IN dsTEnnEicil

A-1061 Wien, Postfach 146 (Austria) 1988.03.14

SAGOS60, Chester Road Woodstock 7925 South Africa

Dear Friends,

At the occasion of the 1988 Sport festival the Austrian Anti- Apartheid-Movement greets all the participants at this event.We assure you of our solidarity in your struggle for-a demo­cratic sport in a non-racial society.

Only recently ve could notice that the boycott imposed by the Austrian gove’i^ment on South Africa sportsmen and -vomen vho want to participate in events here begins to bite.

We hope your sportsevent will be a successful one an remain.

Yours in struggle,

Elfriede Pekny (Secretary far inter­national cooperation)

Konto; Zentralsparkasse.und Kommerzialbartk, Wien Nr. 610 512 006

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SOUTH AFRICAN PRIMARY SCHOOLS’ SPORTS ASSOCIATIONTHE historic inaugural meeting of the South African P rim al Schools’ Sports Association (S^APSS A) was held at the Wil­liam Herbert Sports Ground, Wynberg, Cape Town on Mon,- day 11th and Tuesday 12th January 1965.The units that comprised this inauguration were the Natal In­dian Schools’ Sports Board, the Transvaal Primary Schools’ Sports Board and the Western Province Primary Schools’ Sports Board.Before the establishment of the SAPSSA, there existed the South African Schools’ Sports Board (SASSB) which was formed in 1953. The Western Province Board withdrew from the SASSB in 1958 because the SASSB could not administer sport for the provinces effectively. The SASSB at that time had only two affiliates viz. Northern Cape (Kimberley) and Western Province.The Western Province Board, in 1964, made attempts at resuscitating the SASSB, but the attempt was unsuccessful. At the same time the Board made contacts with p r im ^ schools’ sports organisers in Transvaal and Natal which resulted in the meeting in Cape Town in January 1965.The inaugural meeting adopted the constitution of the newly formed SAPSSA and agreed that the headquarters would rotate on a bienniel basis. The first headquarters was the Western Province Board.The newly formed organisation organised its first sport event in its inaugural year - th^Athletics Championships at the Kings Park Stadium in Durban with Natal, Transvaal and Western Province as the competing centres. This first cham­pionships was won by the Western Province.

Two new areas became associated with the Association in 1966. The Northern Cape (Kimberley) and Southern Cape Boards became affiliated.

The second national sports event of the SAPSSA was or­ganised by the Transvaal Primary Schools’ Sports Board in Johannesburg during the school vacation of July 1966. The competing centres were Western Province, Transvaal, Natal,

Southern Cape and Northern Cape. The sports codes played at the tournament were netball and soccer.The headquarters of the Association rotated as follows in the initial period;1965 to 1967: W.P. Primary Schools’ Sports Board.1967 to 1969; Transvaal Primary Schools’ Sports Board.1969 to 1971: Natal Primary Schools’ Board.The South African Senior Schools’ Sports Association, which was established in 1961, had written to the association in 1966 and attended as observers, a meeting of the SAPSSA in Johan­nesburg. From then onwards the link between the SASSSA and the SAPSSA became a very close one.Throughout its existence the schools of the poorest sections of the communities in the ghettoes and townships could never become members because of the costs involved. These so- called educational institutions had, and in the majority of cases still today, have absolutely no facilities for the organis­ing of school sport. Sand-pits still remain the school

1 and recreational area for soccer, netball and ath-playground; ietics.It is because of the recognition of the need to relate with sport organisations that were equally deprived and subjected racial­ly, that the SAPSSA sought liaison with a number of non-ra- cial sport organisations. This liaison culminated in the SAPSSA affiliating to the South African Council of Sport (SACOS) in July of 1978. It was in this period that the SAPSSA became part of the sports liberatory struggle against racist division and economic exploitation.It is the p r im ^ aim of the South African Prim a^ Schools’ Sports Association to join with the South African Senior Schools’ Sports Association and the Tertiary Sports Or­ganisations to form one non-racial schools sports organisation in a non-racial democratic South Africa. This is the fun­damental reason for the SAPSSA’s membership of the SACOS and its relationship with the broad national liberatory movement.

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SOUTH AFRICAN DARTS BOARD OF CONTROLTHE World Federation (WDF) had no sooner held its in­augural meeting in March 1976, at which it decided, among other things, to accept the non-racial SADBOC as a member of WDF, than the "white" South African Darts Association called for a joint meeting of the two organisations with the purpose of forming one controlling body for darts in South Africa.SADBOC prepared a memorandum for the meeting, and the basic points were:* The total abolition of racial darts bodies;* The right of open membership in all clubs;* All clubs to join regional bodies witiiout discrimination;* Equal opportunities must be given to all players;* No discrimination at any playing level;* Representative sides to be selected on ability only;* The right of any player or spectator to attend any matches without any restriction based on colour.It was with this memorandum that they sat down to a meet­ing with SADA on August 21, 1976, where SADA repre­sentatives decided that, ̂ though they agreed in principle with SADBOC, they could not speak for their members.The joint statement issued said that both parties would report back to their respective organisations, and that they would meet each other again.SADA met on December 11 and formulated a reply to SAD­BOC, the important points of the letter being that:* SADA will abide by the sjxjrts policy as laid down by the Government on September 23,1976;* SADA wanted to play against SADBOC at provincial and higher level; and* A joint meeting of SADA and SADBOC be held with the Minister of Sport, Dr Piet Koomhof.SADBOC replied that SADA’s observations were unaccep­table, and re-stated that a non-racial organisation, free from political interference, was the only answer. SADBOC had no reply to their letter except for a telephone call from Mr Fanie Bam, the SADA se c re t^ .SADBOC replied in writing to the telephone call. Extracts of our reply follow:1. Your Association does not entirely oppose play at club level. However, you do believe that we must adhere to Government policy and that clubs must therefore, retain their racial structure.2. It is the view of your Association that the implementation of play at club level, in any event, will pose innumerable problems such as:Behaviour - You expressed concern that contact between what you term "the lower levels of membership" in both or­ganisations could have unpleasant results.3. The Association favours that a "start" be made by playing friendlies at Provincial level. We should exclude areas such as Orange Free State and Transvaal for they do not need to be involved since they are not faced with similar "problems".4. You were informed by the local office of the Department of Sport that special conditions exist in the Western Cape, and that the Minister of Sport had indicated that a "blind eye" be cast to events in this area.

B aboo H arry p ersa d h - Sadboc Player ol the Year

1987.

Bill Scholtz, president of Sadboc

We are of the opinion that SADA has no genuine interest to co-operate with our Board in the formation of one controlling body for darts in South Africa unless we are prepared to ac­cept a subjective role in such an organisation and that such an organisation is conducted on strictly racial lines..."It is our belief that:* Discrimination in any form is completely unacceptable since it impedes the promotion and development of the s{)ort.* Any sincere effort to implement this universally accepted practice cannot include those who believe and behave dif­ferently.COMMUNICATION between SADA and SADBOC came to a halt after that, and at the moment SADBOC is still one of the two non-racial codes in South Africa that enjoys interna­tional recognition. SADBOC is a member of the World Darts Federation.The WDF president Peter McMenamin wrote to SADBOC congratulating SADBOC on its 25th anniversary, and when one considers that the American Darts Association is only 15 years old and the British Dart Organisation only 10 years old, SADBOC is one of the oldest unnits in the WDF.SADBOC enjoys sponsorship from Red Heart Rum Interna­tional, their sponsorship being handled directly from London, and the value of the s^nsorship has been increased to R58 000 for the 1988 season.On the playing side SADBOC continues to grow. The last two provinces to affiliate were Namaqualand and Northern Transvaal, who were officially welcomed at the Easter tour­nament last year, their affiliation taking the count to 14 provincial units.The Orange Free State submitted their application at the same meeting, and possibly the biggest breakthrough was the ap­plication from the South African Tertiary Institutions Sports Association (SATIS A), the organisation that controls sport at the colleges.Another milestone in South African darts was the first nation­al women’s tournament held in Cape Town last year.The national tournament will be held in Durban this year, after which the national teams will be chosen to play at UWC on Friday, April 6.

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IN 1976 the South African Cricket Board of Control, under the leadership of Mr M.R. Varachia, joined the white-control­led South African Cricket Union. They had opted to play so- called normal cricket.SACU claimed that it was possible to play normal sport in a country which practised racial discrimination as official government policy.All the provincial units of SACBOC affiliated to SACU to some extent, with the exception of Western Province, who were left on their own as they had not taken a formal decision to affiliate.Non-racial cricketers quickly realised that the struggle for non-racialism in sport and in life in general would not be served by affiliation to the South African Cricket Union and that their affiliation would only be used to regain internation­al recognition for the White, privileged cricketers of the SACU.South Africa had been suspended by the International Crick­et Conference four years earlier in 1972 on the grounds that most South Africans were denied basic human rights in the country of their birth and that the suspension would remain in force while the hated doctrine of Apartheid is still in force in South Africa.White dominated sport was desperate to get back into world cricket and the only way to do so was to "prove" to the world that cricket in South Africa was "multi-national"Hence the affiliation of SACBOC to SACU.After informal discussions it was decided not to revive SAC­BOC but to form a new body which would carry on the fight for non-racial cricket and which would, in fact, extend that fight by joining other non-racial sports codes under the ban­ner of the South African Council on Sport. The decision to af­filiate to SACOS was one of the first taken by the South African Cricket Board when it was formed.When Mr Varachia heard about the formation of the new Board he threatened legal action if the name South African Cricket Board of Control was used.

The inaugural meeting of the South African Cricket Board took place in Johannesburg at the A.E.L. Centre, Mint Road, Fordsburg on November 13,1977.Mr Hassan Howa presided at the meeting. The following were the first officials elected to the newly-formed Board:President Mr Hassan Howa, Vice-president Sheikh M.G. Booley, Secretary Mr-A.W. Kazi, Treasurer Mr Barney Leendertz, who is still Treasurer of the Board. Mr Lionel Smith was elected Record Clerk.

The present "cabinet" of the South African Board is:President Mr Krish M ackerdhuj, Vice-President Mr Raymond Uren, Treasurer Mr Barney Leendertz, Secretary Mr Reg Feldman, Assistant Secretaii7 Mr Ronnie Pillay, Match and Registration Secretary Mr Yusuf Lorgat. Mr M. Jobodwana is the Executive Member.

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SACB XI:

Stuart Hendricks (WP), Shcraj Gabriels (WP), Ismail Behar- dien (WP), Munsoor Abdullah (WP), Haroun Lorgat (Transvaal, vice-captain), Khaya Majola (EP, captain), Faiek Davids (WP), Mustapha Khan (Natal), Randall Cupido (WP), Abdul Haq Manack (Transvaal) and Vincent Barnes (WP).12th man: Ahmed Dinath.Manager: Rushdi Magiet (WP).PRESIDENT’S XI:Garth Cuddumbey (EP), Nathan Moodley (Griqualand West), Andre Peters (EP), Stanley Govender (Natal), Nazier Din<to (Transvaal), Deon Kemp (WP), Saait Magiet (WP, captain), Nilton Muller (WP), Richard Dolley (EP, vice-captain), Reg­gie February (WP) and Navin Ramnarian (Nataly12th man: Mongezi Majola (EP).Manager: Goolam Rajah (Transvaal).

SOUTH AFRICAN SQUASH RACKETS FEDERATIONTHE first provincial squash body to cater for non-racial sportspersons and adhering to the principles and policies of Sacos was formed in Natal in 1979. Its formation was spear­headed by players who wanted to play all their sport under the banner of Sacos. The next significant event was the formation of the Athlone Squash Rackets Club in Cape Town. The Natal Squash Rackets Federation and Athlone Squash Rackets Club worked closely together on the formation of the national body. This work came to fruition with the formation of this Federation in 1981. We now have four affiliates, namely Eastern Transvaal S R F, Natal S R F, Western Areas S R F and Western Province S R F. We recently received an applica­tion for membership from the newly formed Eastern Province S R F. This will be considered at our forthcoming Biennial General Meeting. The lack of suitable squash facilities ac­ceptable to non-racial sportspersons is the greatest obstacle to our aim of forming affiliates in other parts of this country.The Federation organises an Individual Championship and an Interprovincial (team tournament). Up to 1986 these competi­tions were held in alternative years. Our aim was to have both competitions each year but this was impossible mainly due to a lack of funds, in 1987 we held both events at different venues for the first time. One of our main objectives is to promote squash amongst scholars and to this end we plan to have both the events as well as a junior competition in 1988.One of the main problems we experience in promoting our sport is the lack of sponsorship. Despite well motivated proposals which we submitted to nearly all major local and international companies, we have been unsuccessful in secur­ing substantial sponsorships for our competitions. This is a plight we share with most other Sacos affiliates.We have submitted a memorandum to the International Squash Rackets Federation on the position of squash in this country, our attitude on tours to and from this country and about matters in general. We have received an acknow­ledgement of receipt of the document but are still awaiting a full response. We quote the following extract from the memorandum:

"Basic Structure:Sport in this country can never be non-racial until the basic structure of the society in which we play our sport is totally and fundamentally changed. All discriminatory laws of whatever nature or kind must be removed from the statute books. More importantly, all sportspersons of this land ir­respective of their colour must be given their inalienable right to exercise their vote. Ultimately it is only in this way that sportspersons can control this aspect of their lives for the com­mon good of all sportspersons. We believe that it is this basic but important stance of ours which distinguishes ourselves from the white dominated South African Squash Rackets As­sociation (SASRA). For example, unlike the multiracial sports organisations (SASRA for instance) we do not believe that the relaxation of the discriminatory laws for the duration of a squash game makes that game non-racial because inter alia the unfranchised squash player after his game must return to his impoverished, racially segregated township. These townships are built for blacks and are almost always far away from their places of work. This means that most black workers have to leave home for work in the early sometimes dark hours of the morning and return late at night leaving little or no time or inclination to bother about training for sport".

LIST OF OFFICIALS Patron: Morgan Naidoo President: Clive I. Vawda Vice-Presidents: Hassan Bam Anthony P. Staak Secretary: Denis L. Cornelius Asst Secretary: Vijay H. Gajjar Treasurer: Coops Pillai Records Clerk: Marc Parker

THE SOUTH SQUAD; (left ta jfgh i) Andy Wrankmore, Godfrey Hendrlcki, Karen Fourie, Peter Eagles, Desired Sharpe, Henry Higgins, Joey Fourle.Absent: Desired Stephens

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SOUTH AFRICAN COUNCIL ON SPORT. 60 CHESTER ROAD,WOODSTXK7925 W X D S T X KREPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA

FROM: FLINDERS UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA.

REF#: 1098/1TLX: 89624, FLINDU AA89624

THE STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION WISHES TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE ROLE OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN COUNCIL ON SPORT AND TO COMMEND YOUR EFFORTS IN STAGING THE SPORTS FESTIVAL. THE STRUGGLE FOR DIGNITY AND EQUALITY, AND AGAINST THE INJUSTICE OF APARTHEID IS MANIFESTED IN THE SPORTING ARENA AS EQUALLY AS OTHER AREAS OF SOCIETY.

THE SPORTS FESTIVAL REPRESENTS A VALUABLE OPPORTUNITY TO BOTH PUBLICISE AND FURTHER THIS STRUGGLE. WE WISH THE PARTICIPANTS AND THE ORGANISERS SUCCESS IN ALL ASPECTS OF THEIR ENDEAVOUR.

YOURS IN SOLIDARITY,

JIM WELLSMORE,GENERAL SECRETARY,FOR THE CO-ORDINATING GROUP OF THE STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION OF FLINDERS UNIVERSITY, BEDFORD PARK, AUSTRALIA 5042.

For intormation on this service call (914) 934 6300 or telex6712472 in the U S A Or, to send a cablegram call (2l2) 344-8910.

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SACOS EXECUTIVE From Left-Abe Adams (Executive Member), Krish Muckerdhuj (Treasurer), Errol Vawda (Executive Member), Yusul Ebrahim (Vice-President), Frank v.d. Horst (President), Cotin Ctarke (Secretary), Stan Gumede (Internai Secretary), Gert Bam (Executive Member),

Morgan Naidoo (Pubiication Secretary), Ajit Ghandabhai (Executive Member)

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