HULLE is sport mal (They are sport crazy) was the response of the head of Robben Island Maximum Security Prison on a Sunday morning “Inspection” in the early 1980s. He was confronted on why he had restored Springbok Radio’s Saturday afternoon Sports Round-up” that we had asked not to be beamed into our cells.
For one weekend we were not subjected to carefully selected Springbok Radio programmes. There was one irate political prisoner who apparently could not do without these “white” sports results. Despite the agreement that had been reached with all 10 seksies (sections, prison blocks), restor- ing white sports results suited the apartheid system. The
