International Sports
South Africa could return to the international sports community by the middle of this year and probably will have a team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, a leading anti-apartheid campaigner said. Sam Ramsamy, who last weekend was named chairman of the new Interim National Olympic Committee of South Africa, said his two-decade fight to abolish apartheid and return South Africa to the Olympics is nearly over.
“This is what I’ve been fighting for, to see South Africa in international sports on a non-racial basis,” Ramsamy said from his London office.
South Africa was expelled by the International Olympic Committee in 1970.
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