The South African Council on Sport at 50: the fight for sports development is still relevant today
IT'S 50 years since the official formation of the South African Council on Sport (Sacos). Sacos was the sports wing of the anti-apartheid liberation movement. It was established in 1973 and disbanded in 2005. It’s main aim, at the time, was to lay the ground for all national sports federations to be able to compete in international competition – and not just the teams of the white-minority apartheid state. Author FRANCOIS CLEOPHAS, Senior Lecturer in Sport History, Stellenbosch University As a remembrance campaign, regional committees were established in various South African cities to commemorate this nearly forgotten but historically important…