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New Zealand, South Africa, rugby and racism
Trevor Richards
300 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates
illustrations, portraits
Summary: The Springbok tour of 1981 is writ large in New Zealand's history ... brought the country closer to civil war than anyone believed was possible. But the issue was not new: there had been protest ever since the Springboks first toured in 1921 ... traces the development of the protests following the 1921 Springbok v. Maori game, through the growth of a mass movement of determined citizens, to the New Zealand court case which stopped the 1985 All Black tour of South Africa ... As leader of HART for much of its twenty-three years, Trevor Richards tells this story from a unique position. (Back cover)
Contents: Section 1. 1902-1968 : a history of New Zealand's first capitulation to South Africa -- 1. 1902-1948 : neither forgotten nor forgiven -- 2. 1948-1966 : cutting into very deep principles -- 1966-1968 : new concerns -- Section 2. 1969-1981 : from the eye of the storm : New Zealand responds to apartheid -- 4. 1969-1970 : establishing a movement -- 5. 1971-April 1973 : standing the established order on its head -- 6. April 1973-November 1975 : the inter-war years -- 7. November 1975-June 1977 : New Zealand stands alone -- 8. July 1977-Winter 1981 : a country divided against itself -- Section 3. October 1981-1996 : a closing of the circle -- 9. 1981-1990 : a slow unravelling -- 10. Looking at ourselves -- 11. 1990-1996 : building a new relationship -- Appendix. The Gleneagles Agreement