In 1991, as part of the transition to multiracial equality, a new NOC was formed and admitted to the IOC, and the country competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona.
[1][2] The IOC under Avery Brundage regarded this as an internal matter for South Africa, and, committed to keeping politics and sports separate, took no action.
With the decolonisation of Africa from the late 1950s, NOCs from newly independent states opposed to apartheid began affiliating to the IOC.
[4][5] On the other hand, the international federations (IFs), the governing bodies of the Olympic sports, were quicker to give a voice to newer members.
[2] In 1962, Jan de Klerk announced a ban on South Africans appearing in mixed-race competition inside or outside the country.
[9] In 1963, Dennis Brutus founded the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee (SANROC) which lobbied the IOC to expel SAONGA.
[7] The IOC moved its 1963 conference from Nairobi to Baden-Baden after the Kenyan government refused to grant a visa to the South African delegate.
To bypass its own ban on mixed-race competition, SANOC was prepared to stage its Olympic trials abroad, but the events would still be segregated.
[15]) At the 1967 IOC conference in Tehran, SANOC committed to sending a single mixed-race team to the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.
[17] It was led by Lord Killanin, a future IOC president, who resigned from the Irish Anti-Apartheid Society to forestall allegations of bias; the other members were Ade Ademola, a black Nigerian, and Reginald Alexander, a white Kenyan.
[18] Killanin later recalled that Ademola was repeatedly snubbed in South Africa, and that of whites they interviewed, athletes favoured integrated competition, administrators less so, and politicians Frank Waring and John Vorster not at all.
[12] The committee's report at the 1970 conference in Amsterdam detailed seven allegations of discrimination, as well as the unauthorised use of the Olympic rings at the South African Open Games.
[12] Reginald Honey stated his intention to resign from the IOC, but because he personally opposed SANOC's policies, SCSA president Abraham Ordia persuaded him to remain a member until his death in 1982.
[28] ANOCA took the lead in negotiations in 1990 and early 1991, and an Interim National Olympic Committee of South Africa (INOCSA) was formed with Sam Ramsamy as president.