No Change in Government sports policy.

Wright's experiences showed that the Games did not conflict with the South African Government's policy of dividing national sporting organisations up on strictly racial lines, and excluding any genuinely multi-racial organisations which opposed that policy.

He pointed out that none of the athletes chosen to represent South Africa in track and field events and many other sports was selected through open trials based on merit, in track and field the few black athletes who competed, about 12 in all, came from the South African Amateur Athletic and Cycling Union, the stooge Bantu union. "These blacks did not go through open championships to pick the men to represent their country", he said.

Another example of discrimination was the fact that the white track and field federation was the, sole administrative voice for all four South African federations (white, black, coloured and Indian), the presence of which was a gross violation of international rules based on the Olympic principle.

Wright told American newspapers that the seating arrangements at the Games were one thing in particular which brought home to him the farcical nature of the whole thing.

"I was sitting in the V.I.P. section, looking down at the section reserved for the Bantus. That's the hypocrisy of it. I'm a black guy and a V.I.P. from another country, so I'm treated differently. But the black who's a native of South Africa" exists under apartheid rule. He couldn't buy a ticket to sit where he wanted by choice".

In a report in the New Statesman (April 20th, 1973) David Leitch described the atmosphere of the Games in Pretoria. The South African Government had tried hard to impress outsiders. "Black athletes have been accepted, if not always precisely welcomed, by security men skulking behind the aspidistras in the Brugers Park Hotel. Usually the only black men admitted there are carrying trays. Efforts were made to remove the 'nie-blanke' and 'non-white' signs".

Leitch mentioned a local joke about the unexpected white victory in the white-black soccer match at the Games. "Every time the white players called 'pass', so the anecdote goes, the athletic black forwards stopped running to search frantically in their shorts for the obligatory book. Off the soccer field spot pass-checks by the police currently run at 1,000 a day, 365,000 a year".