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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The pitch occupation stopped that match and challenged sporting relations that gave apartheid international legitimacy.
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