Transvaal rugby tour called off
NZPA Paris French rugby authorities have effectively torpedoed the tour just begun by an all-white Transvaal team, announcing that the visit by the South African squad was “inopportune” The French rugby federation said yesterday it was not informed that the Transvaal
team would not include, as initially planned, two Coloured players.
“Because this team does not meet the sporting requirements set by the federation, we declare that these matches would be inopportune,” the statement said. A senior official of the
French sports ministry said ■that the Minister, JeanPierre Soisson, wholly backed the federation’s stand and added: ‘'lmplicitly this means the end of the Transvaal tour.”
The 22-member squad arrived in France on April 2. They were due to play four matches — against Dax, La
I Vouilte, Nice and the Paris ■ University Club. Anti-apartheid campaignI ers, who claimed the tour ; was a trial run for a full- ■ scale visit by the Springboks in October, had said that if
they could not have the matches cancelled they would organise disruptive demonstrations.
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