Blast from the past: Dale makes Hayes while the sun shines on European Tour
1970 — South Africa becomes the first nation to be expelled by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Amsterdam, being ousted after a vote of 35 to 28, with three abstentions. The expulsion came 11 years after the first attempt to boot out the apartheid government. The charges against SA, which had already been barred from competing at the 1964 and 1968 Games, included racial discrimination in sport and lack of facilities for sports people of colour. Frank Braun, president of the SA National Olympic Committee, had tried to plead SA’s case. His conservative mindset would not have appeased apartheid’s opponents. At a meeting in SA later that month he criticised those calling for racial equality in sport, saying it was one thing not minding playing against non-whites, and another thing not minding playing with non-whites. SA returned to the Olympics only in 1992...
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