Sanctions don’t always cripple (I know, I lived through them).

I remember seeing glimpses of the 1984 Olympics coverage on our new colour Television wondering why our country wasn’t there?

Or why we couldn’t watch Clive Rice or Graham Pollock play a test against the Windies — the best cricket team in the world at the time.

Soon I learned that we had long-running sanctions imposed on our country.

It wasn’t just non-ecomomic sanctions.