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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 36, Number 9. 1ts May 1973

[Introduction]

Reports from sports administrators and journalists who attended the recent South African Games in Pretoria have exposed the Vorster Government's latest attempt to whitewash apartheid in sport as a complete and utter sham.

The idea of holding South African Games was first dreamed up as a means of providing white South African sportsmen with international competition after South Africa's exclusion from the Olympics in 1968. But the first games in 1969, were a complete flop. White sportsmen only were invited, and as the result of an international boycott, few of the overseas sportsmen who participated were of world class.