MICHAEL MORRIS: Shades of Piet Koornhof in absurd sports policies

For all the wrong reasons I was reminded last week of Piet Koornhof and the convolutions of 1970s apartheid sports policy.

At this distance, one can discern in events — pre-1976, no less — the budding realisation among National Party strategists of the inescapable mismatch between race ideology and the claims of reason and modernity...

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