a junior partner with US imperialism." Burnham was a supporter of the Non-Aligned Movement, which Guyana joined in 1970. Membership of the Non-Aligned movement was seen as a cornerstone of Guyana's foreign policy. Burnham's other foreign policies included establishing maintaining membership and good relations within CARICOM (including being a founding member of CARIFTA and being the man behind the first 1972 Caribbean Festival of Arts)) and in the Commonwealth of Nations. Burnham also advocated regionalism. Burnham was staunchly opposed to apartheid policies. On one occasion, English Cricketer Robin Jackman's visa was rescinded once he arrived in Georgetown due to his connections with apartheid in South Africa, and a boycott of the 1976 Summer Olympics was also put in place by Burnham in protest after the New Zealand national rugby union team had toured South Africa earlier in 1976 and were not banned by the International Olympic Committee. South Africa would award Burnham the Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo for his support of South African interests. Burnham made education free during his time in office, including tertiary education. Burnham was accused of corruption during his premiership by opposition parties. Walter Rodney said that "Burnham encourages around himself individuals who are weak or corrupt because he then exercises vicious control over them," and called his administration a "corrupt dictatorship". Afrocentrist policies and accusations of racism Burnham's administration has been accused of afrocentrist policies and discrimination against the Indian population. Burnham's administration was mostly Afro-Guyanese. The Guyanese armed forces under the Burnham administration were majority Afro-Guyanese after Burnham purged the armed forces of Indo-Guyanese from 1968, and under the state-controlled economy Afro-Guyanese took up the majority of jobs despite making up a minority of the population. The resettlement of Afro-Guyanese in Amerindian lands was a major contributing factor in the Rupununi Uprising. Guyanese journalist Freddie Kissoon expressed the opinion that Burnham was not racist, but was aware that his support was predominantly Afro-Guyanese, the Indo-Guyanese would mostly support Jagan, and therefore he had to deliver policies to please the Afro-Guyanese racial group and maintain his popular support. Kissoon went on to criticise Burnham for his authoritarian policies regardless of intention, stating that "The reign of Forbes Burnham was frightening and demoralizing" and also stating that during Burnham's tenure "almost 99 percent of Indian Guyanese felt that Guyana had no place for them and that its president, and his party were