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MCC tour of South Africa, 1968-1969



Reference
MCC/CRI/5/1/105
Date:
1968-08 - 1968-12-19
Level of description
file
Extent
2 folders
Part of
MCC Tours (MCC/CRI/5/1)
Scope and Content
Correspondence, minutes, newspaper cuttings and telegrams relating to the MCC tour of South Africa, 1968-1969. Subjects include itineraries, salary recommendations, notes for the MCC President briefing teams before their departure, financial conditions, press statements and letters announcing the cancellation of the tour, statements from the MCC Committee regarding the tour, notes and instructions for the tour, minutes of the selection Sub-Committee for the tour, requests for the MCC team to attend functions including beauty contests, decision to appoint Elaine Marsh as secretary to L E G Ames, manager for the tour, letter to S C Griffith announcing that a Special General Meeting would be called to discuss the MCC's handling of the D'Oliveira affair, medical report on T W Cartwright, announcement that Cartwright's replacement would be D'Oliveira, decision to approach India and Pakistan to tour those countries in 1968-1969 instead of South Africa, letters in support of John Vorster's decision not to allow D'Oliveira to play in South Africa, letter from G Boycott declining the invitation to tour India and Pakistan, details of the resolutions announced for the Special General Meeting in 1968.
Associations
Leslie Ethelbert George Ames
Stewart Cathie Griffith
Thomas William Cartwright
Basil Lewis D'Oliveira
Balthazar Johannes Vorster
Geoffrey Boycott
Subject
D'Oliveira affair, MCC in South Africa 1968-1969, cancelled tours, special general meetings
Conditions governing access
Open
Language
English, Afrikaans
Size
2 folders
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