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The 1981 Springbok rugby tour - 1981 Springbok tour ...

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1981 Springbok tour Page 1 – Introduction. A country divided. For 56 days in July, August and September 1981, New Zealanders were divided against each other in the largest civil disturbance seen since the 1951 waterfront dispute. More than 150,000 people took part in over 200 demonstrations in 28 centres, and 1500 were charged with offences ...

1981 Springbok tour - Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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The 1981 Springbok (South African) rugby tour was among the most divisive events in New Zealand’s history. In the 1960s and 70s, many New Zealanders had come to believe that playing sport with South Africa condoned its racist apartheid system. Others disagreed. Learn about the trauma of the tour, when feelings ran high, and pro- and anti-tour ...

Stopping the 1973 tour - 1981 Springbok tour NZHistory ...

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1981 Springbok tour Page 4 – Stopping the 1973 tour. From the mid-1960s New Zealand–South African rugby contact was central to South Africa's attempts to maintain international sporting contact. Those opposed to apartheid believed that isolating South African sport would increase the prospect of real change. In July 1969 HART (Halt All ...

Inside the 1981 Springbok tour - Noted

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Thirty years after the 1981 Springbok rugby tour, Police have given the Listener access to previously classified documents. Looking back, the violence of a secret police training session was an indication of what was to come. It was June 1981. Six weeks before the arrival of the Springbok rugby team, elite riot police drilled at Papakura Army Base.

Springbok Tour 1981 - Wellington City Libraries

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56 Days was published shortly after the 1981 Tour by C.O.S.T. as a fund raiser to pay for legal fees. C.O.S.T. (or "Citizens Opposed to the Springbok Tour") were an anti-tour protest organisation which ran parallel to but was quite separate from the main anti-tour group H.A.R.T. ("Halt All Racist Tours"). The work is an in-depth look of protest ...

Impact - 1981 Springbok tour NZHistory, New Zealand ...

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1981 Springbok tour Page 8 – Impact. A taste of things to come? In Hamilton the protesters occupying the pitch had chanted, ‘The whole world is watching’. The same applied to New Zealand as a nation. Some believed the tour was an opportunity to address the issue of racism in New Zealand while showing solidarity with the oppressed black ...

Anti-Springbok protesters block Hamilton match NZHistory ...

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Film: game cancelled in Hamilton, 1981 Springbok tour – Regional rugby Tour diary – 1981 Springbok tour 1981 - key events – The 1980s. External links. Anti-apartheid protesters, Palmerston North (Te Ara) Protesters and rugby fans in conflict (Te Ara) Patu! (NZ On Screen)

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