EVENT INFORMATION

25
July
1981

Anti-apartheid protesters stop the Hamilton rugby match

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๐Ÿ“… 25 July 1981 ๐Ÿ“ New Zealand

Protesters entered Rugby Park in Hamilton and forced cancellation of the match between Waikato and the touring South African Springboks. The action challenged the claim that sport could be separated from apartheid. Campaigners treated sporting contact as a source of international legitimacy for racial domination. Their intervention made solidarity with South African liberation a direct confrontation within New Zealand.

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Organizations in this Event

Halt All Racist Tours

anti-tour protesters

New Zealand Rugby Football Union