Apartheid

==== Professional boxing ====
Activities in the sport of professional boxing were also affected, as there were 44 recorded professional boxing fights for national titles as deemed "for Whites only" between 1955 and 1979,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://boxrec.com/en/titles?t%5Bbout_title%5D=389&t%5Bdivision%5D=schedule&t_go=|title=BoxRec: Titles|access-date=15 June 2021|archive-date=6 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220206070334/https://boxrec.com/en/titles?t%5Bbout_title%5D=389&t%5Bdivision%5D=schedule&t_go=|url-status=live}}</ref> and 397 fights as deemed "for non-Whites" between 1901 and 1978.<ref name="boxrec.com">{{cite web|url=https://boxrec.com/en/titles?t%5Bbout_title%5D=388&t%5Bdivision%5D=results&t_go=&offset=0|title=BoxRec: Titles|access-date=15 June 2021|archive-date=6 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220206070307/https://boxrec.com/en/titles?t%5Bbout_title%5D=388&t%5Bdivision%5D=results&t_go=&offset=0|url-status=live}}</ref>

The first fight for a national "White" title was held on 9 April 1955, between Flyweights [[Jerry Jooste]] and Tiny Corbett at the City Hall in Johannesburg; it was won by Jooste by a twelve rounds points decision.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://boxrec.com/en/ent/634779|title=BoxRec|website=boxrec.com}}{{Dead link|date=February 2022|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> The last one was between national "White" Light-Heavyweight champion [[Gerrie Bodenstein]] and challenger Mervin Smit on 5 February 1979, at the [[Joekies Ice Rink]] in [[Welkom]], [[Free State (province)|Free State]]. it was won by the champion by a fifth-round technical knockout.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://boxrec.com/en/event/291594|title=BoxRec: Event|access-date=15 June 2021|archive-date=5 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211105063753/https://boxrec.com/en/event/291594|url-status=live}}</ref>

The first "non Whites" South African national championship bout on record apparently (the date appears as "uncertain" on the records) took place on 1 May 1901, between [[Andrew Jephtha]] and Johnny Arendse for the vacant Lightweight belt, Jephtha winning by knockout in round nineteen of a twenty rounds-scheduled match, in Cape Town.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://boxrec.com/en/event/522824|title=BoxRec: Event|access-date=15 June 2021|archive-date=6 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220206070302/https://boxrec.com/en/event/522824|url-status=live}}</ref>

The last "non White" title bout took place on 18 December 1978, between [[Sipho Mange]] and [[Chris Kid Dlamini]]; Mange-Dlamini was the culminating fight of a boxing program that included several other "non White" championship contests. Mange won the vacant non-White Super Bantamweight title by outpointing Dlamini over twelve rounds at the [[Goodwood Showgrounds]] in Cape Town.<ref name="boxrec.com"/>