The D’Oliveira affair

England’s 1968 cricket tour of South Africa was cancelled because prime minister BJ Vorster, pictured, refused to let South Africa play a racially mixed team. Vorster was offended by the inclusion in the test team of all-rounder Basil D’Oliveira, who had left South Africa to play for England because he was not permitted to participate at national level at home. The cancellation kicked off the sporting isolation of South Africa, which helped bring an end to apartheid. Eventually