Which newspaper was instrumental in getting Zola Budd to compete for England
Zola Budd Britain, clocking 14:48.07. The "Daily Mail", a British tabloid newspaper, persuaded Budd's father to encourage her to apply for British citizenship, on the grounds that her grandfather was British, to circumvent the international sporting boycott of South Africa, so that she could compete in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. With a strong push from the "Daily Mail", British citizenship was granted in short order and she moved to Guildford. Her application and arrival was controversial due to her acquiring a passport under preferential circumstances. Groups supporting the abolition of apartheid campaigned vociferously and effectively to highlight the special
Zola Budd of 8h6mins, earning a Bill Rowan Medal. In March 2015, Budd won the Run Hard Columbia (SC) Marathon, with a time of 3:05:27. In South Africa today, township taxis are nicknamed "Zola Budd" for their speed. The singer Brenda Fassie (whom "Time" magazine called "the Madonna of the townships" in 2001) had a hit single in the 1980s with her track "Zola Budd". On 20 July 2012 BBC Radio 4 broadcast a play by Richard Monks about the political and media actions taken to bring Zola Budd to Britain with her father at the age of 17, the script implying