Anti-Apartheid hero R K Naidoo dies in Durban

A prominent former sports administrator of Indian origin who played a leading role in the fight against apartheid sport in the 1970s and 1980s has died in Durban at the age of 82.

R K Naidoo, whose grandparents came to South Africa to work as indentured labourers, was the president of the non-racial federation professional league in the 1970s at a time when the then apartheid government did everthing in its power to destroy the growth of non-racial sport. He was also a senior official in the non-racial South African soccer federation that worked tirelessly to isolate apartheid South Africa from international sport.