Bruce Fordyce wore a black armband 40 years ago when he won his first Comrades
31 May 2021 9:13 AM
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He was protesting the apartheid regime s plan to associate the event with 20th anniversary of South Africa becoming a republic.
South African 9-times Comrades Marathon winner says in 1981 he knew he had a good chance of it being his first win.
The National Party decided to include the Comrades marathon as part of a series of events to celebrate what was then the 20th Republic Day on 31 May 1981.
Fordyce says he wanted to run that year but also show his dissatisfaction, and so decided, along with a number of other participants, to wear a black armband.