Apartheid on the Run: The South African Sports Boycott

For people of England, 1970 nearly became year of locust. Early that spring, a London anti-apartheid activist, David Wilton-Godberford, made it known that he planned to wage biological warfare against all-white South African team that was shortly to arrive for a cricket series against England. Wilton-Godberford had imported desert locusts from Africa and was using them to seed a clandestine anti-apartheid breeding program at a series of undisclosed sites in north Wales. Seventy thousand hoppers, he calculated, would ordinarily consume 112 pounds of grass in twelve minutes; seventy thousand ravenous hoppers would eat more. Warning that the crack of a solid army of locusts feeding will sound like flames, WiltonGodberford issued his ultimatum: if