Politics and Cricket: The D'Oliveira Affair of 1968
| Autor: | Bruce K. Murray |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Southern African Studies. 27:667-684 |
| ISSN: | 1465-3893 0305-7070 |
| Popis: | On 17 September 1968, B. J. Vorster, the South African Prime Minister, announced that he would not allow into South Africa the MCC cricket team that included Basil D'Oliveira, the South African-born Coloured cricketer who played for England. D'Oliveira's inclusion in the team was belated, and was represented by Vorster as a capitulation to anti-apartheid agitation. Had D'Oliveira been selected in the first instance, Vorster told the British ambassador, he would have been allowed in. With the aid of new evidence from the National Archives in Pretoria, this paper firmly establishes that this was untrue and that Vorster would never have accepted D'Oliveira. His concern throughout was to avoid having to impose a formal ban, so as not to further imperil South Africa's international sporting ties, and to ensure instead that D'Oliveira was not included in the MCC team. To this end, the plan to bribe D'Oliveira to make himself unavailable for the tour was hatched in Vorster's office, and various emissaries were s... |
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