Blast from the past: Third time lucky for the Boksburg Bomber
22 September 2020 - 19:13
1976 — The apartheid government’s new sports policy, aimed at appeasing mounting critics by allowing competition across race groups, is approved by the National Party. But it is soon slated because, while permitting members of different race groups to compete against each other, it didn’t allow for mixed teams at club level. It catered only for window dressing at national level...
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