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When Garfield Sobers came to Africa

The West Indian legend's 48-hour visit to Rhodesia in 1970 triggered outrage across the Caribbean and became one of the defining controversies of his remarkable career Black people didn’t dare laugh out loud when they were in the white areas of what was then called Salisbury in 1970. Especially at places as white as Salisbury Sports Club, which has been renamed Harare Sports Club. Unless, of course, they were laugh... [6754 chars]

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