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SPECIAL COMMITTE AGAINST APARTHEID
COMMITTE PROTESTS PROPOSED VISIT TO SOUTH AFRICA BY BRITISH CRICKETERS
The Special Committee against Apartheid has expressed concern over the
reported plans of a number of British cricketers to tour South Africa early
next year and in 1991. In a statement on behalf of the Committee today, its
acting Chairman, Jai Pratap Rana (Nepal), said the tour, in defiance of the
international boycott of apartheid sports, was an affont to international
efforts towards the total isolation of the South African regime, in sports as
well as in other fields.
The statement said cricket and other sports in South Africa were
subjected to the same racial practices which were imposed by the system of
apartheid and were still prevailing in that country. The anti-apartheid
Committee said the tour would be taking place as efforts were under way at the
United Nations to begin implementation of the International Convention against
Apartheid in Sports. The proposed cricket tour, as well as a rugby tour
expected to begin soon, were contrary to the Convention and the principles of
the International Olympic Committee.
The Committee said it earnestly hoped the British Government would adopt
"meaningful measures" to dissuade its nationals from engaging in sporting
activities in South Africa.
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