Ramsamy was a founding member of the South African Council on Sport, established in 1973. He would later become the chairperson of the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee in 1976.
Earlier this month, Wits University conferred an honorary doctorate in Science on Ambassador Abdul Minty, a key figure in South Africa’s nuclear disarmament programme. During his acceptance speech, Minty painted a picture of what it took for the world to admit that South Africa had destructive nuclear weapons and how the country transitioned to peaceful nuclear energy. Here is an edited version of that speech.
International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach has heralded Sam
Ramsamy as a "living legend in the world of sport" after the veteran
anti-apartheid campaigner was named as an Honorary President of the
South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee.
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In early 1964, John Coates reportedly took a day off school to watch
Richie Benaud play his last Test match. A photograph in the next
day’s Sydney Morning Herald pictured him alongside the Australian
cricket captain as they left the pitch.