‘The first free black man I’ve ever seen

Fifty years ago, Arthur Ashe was an incredible feat, while beating the bets and defeated the American Jimmy Connors, the first black man to win the finals – but it wasn’t anything he wanted to determine his life.

Fighting was close to the heart of fighting the obstacles around the racial discrimination – and became one of his battlefields in South Africa.

“I do not want to be remembered in the last analysis because it won Wimbledon, but this is not the most important thing in my life – a year ago a year ago a year ago a year ago.

Nevertheless, his Central Court was highly appreciated on July 5, 1975, as one of the spinal-like sports in the Wimbledon museum, as a spinal-like sport.

Ashe was already 30 years old, with a calm, calm and quiet behavior. 10 years younger and defended champion, the aggressive player was also described as “Brattish”.

Ashe’s achievements and skills and courage in court, of course, adapted to his actions.

In the early 1970s, South Africa refused to give a visa to travel to the country with other US players.

The White Minority Government has legalized an extreme system of racial distribution, known as apartheid or apartments there, in 1948.

Authorities said his finger decided on the “General Antagonism” and open statements about South Africa.

However, in 1973, the government was given a visa to play in South Africa, one of the best tournaments in the world, and gave a visa.

This is the first visit to South Africa, only the stadium will play for both black and white audiences, and activists against the United States are angry between the strong opposition in South Africa.

Richard Evans, a lifetime of South Africa in the South Africa tour, was a member of the British journalist and tennis history Richard Evans, a member of the South African tour.

He says Ashe said, the South African government, the criticism of the law and the accusation was “painful,” he said, but decided to see how people live there.

“He always felt that he was asked about South Africa. He said,” How can I treat a place I don’t know?

Evans organized a group of South African writer and poet Don Mattera to meet a group of black journalists, but the atmosphere was intense and enemy.

“As I passed someone, the Eyans said:” I heard someone saying: “Uncle Tom ‘” – a slum used to differentiate a black man serving white people.

“And then a journalist of one or two many voices stood up and said: ‘

However, all black South Africans should not intensify the presence of Ashe in the country.

The author of South Africa and academician Mark Mathabanane grew up in Alexandra Township – Johannesburg is known as Alex in the north of Johannesburg. Such settlements were established under the apartheid in the outskirts of the cities to survive whites.

First, a boy was aware of his grandmother as a guy while accompanied by a boy in a boy’s family.

The wife of the house gave him the collection of the life magazine in September 1968, 1968 and there, on the front cover, was a bespaceled artur ashe on the network.

Mathabane, the image and his “Artur Ashe’s icy elegance” was envy and set off to imitate him.

When the Ash went to the 1973 round, Mathabane had only one mission – to meet with Ashe or at least close it to him.

Opportunity, South Johannesburg Township came to the rules for the competition to carry a tennis clinic in Soweto.

13-year-old Mathabane made a train trip to reach and join other black scores, and the other black and mostly young people went out to see the tennis star.

“He could be the honor of white people, but black people were Sipo. This is Zulu for the gift,” said Mathabane, now 64 years old Mathabane, told the BBC.

“You know that a gift from God, from the ancestors, and take care of it. Sipho is here, Sipoh from America.”

The excitement caused by the Soweto clinic said it was spread only in this settlement, but also in the country.

Sebebeens or speasies (bar) from rural reservations – black people talked about Ashe’s visit.

“For me, he was the first free black man he saw,” said Mathabane.

After the 1973 round, Ashe returned to South Africa several times. In early 1976, Arthur Ashe for buds for players helped the Soweto Tennis Center (AASTC).

However, after the opening, the center was vandalized in student-leading rebellions against the apartheid regime in June of that year.

In 2007, it was indifferent a few years ago before a major repairs and was unusable and Ashe’s widowers were reopened by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe.

The complex already has 16 courtes and has a library and skills development center.

Fame is to produce tennis star and a magnificent slam champion from the city – and the legends such as Serena and Venus Williams have been there since clinics.

On the one way, the South African National Youth Champion Mothobi Sesel and Masodi Khaba, now goes beyond the central tennis sitting on the Aastc board.

They feel that a number of life skills and self-esteem are tanned to instill.

“We are building young leaders,” Khaba, a successful businessman, told the BBC.

An entrepreneur of Soweto, this is an entrepreneur, it believes that Ashe will be vision: “When he thinks of what his legacy, he believes in the smallest scales and dial.”

Ashe, first of all, the winning matches visible and winning matches can be seen and winning matches, Ashe was first tended to challenge Apartheid.

However, international pressure from the experience of South Africa and the anti-apartheid movement, he convinced that he would be the most effective way to change in South Africa than to attract.

Speaking before the Congress of the United Nations and the US Congress, South Africa became a strong advocacy and a supporter of a boycott of an international sports.

At the joint press conference established by the African Union (OAU) in 1983 (OAU) and the UN organization, he spoke about the goals of the athletes against the separate apartment, which were represented together with the American singer Harry Belafonte.

The organization was lobbied for sanctions against the South African government and had more than 500 members in height.

Ashe has joined the rally and joined the rally and in 1985 when he was arrested outside the South African embassy in Washington, it was more international attention and helped the South African regime’s global condemnation.

He was the captain of the US Davis Cup team and he was always arrested.

Ashe used a platform to oppose social injustice, not only in Africa and South Africa, but also in the United States and Haiti.

In the early 1980s, in many issues and specifically in HIV / AIDS, in the early 1980s, the disease was immediately HIV / AIDS after blood transfer.

However, there was a certain closeness with the black population of South Africa living under a repressive regime.

He said that the identification of the United States in the state of Virginia in the case of education in Richali Richemon.

It is no surprising that South African anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela’s Nedson Manda’nın Nedson Mandela was released in 1990, he said that he was one of the main figures in 1990.

The couple came together several times, but Ashe, Mandela’s president was the President of South Africa after the 1994 election, and the president of South Africa in connection with the democratic rule and apartheid.

However, ashe, Mandela, managed to push to push to change – by helping to unite South Africa – in the 1995 NRGBi World Cup When I Wear Springbok Jersey, famousOnce apartheid’s hate is a symbol.

To celebrate the annual anniversary of Ashe’s annual victory, the Wimbledon Championship has a setup in the International Tennis Central Tunnel and a new museum demonstration. Also, a trailblazer workshop on the road to celebrate its success.

The name of his Wimbledon was one-third of the large slam crowns when I previously won the United States and Australia.

But as Mathabane became the first black African to win a tennis scholarship to a US university in 1978 – Arthur Ashe inheritance was his tennis, not his tennis.

“He literally helped you to be free of self-doubting from the mindset, and to think that you are convicted to repeat your parents’ work as a drude

“So it was magical – because he showed the possibilities.”