Gary Player, friend of the Burmese generals and a subject of a previous post at Leo Africanus, was forced to stand down as host of the Nelson Mandela Invitational Tournament, according to news reports from South Africa. This is at least some victory for the Free Burma Movement in South Africa. What is rankling, however, [...]
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Update: Gary Player and the Burmese Generals
Posted in hypocrisy, Nelson Mandela, sport on October 8, 2007 | 2 Comments »
It Wasn’t Rugby*
Posted in hypocrisy, rugby, Rugby World Cup on September 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In April 1986, lured by NZ$100,000 (a lot in those days) for each player, thirty of New Zealand’s best rugby players known as the “Cavaliers” slipped out of their country and flew to apartheid South Africa to play in an “unofficial test series” against that country’s ‘national’ team.South Africa was banned from international competition at [...]
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