South Africa show gatherings testing travelers and South Africa

Peter Hain's Apartheid battle and his bid to stop South Africa’s 1970 Test series in England

Reading now: 220
www.mirror.co.uk

******* Half a century later, the Black Lives Matter movement is again shining a light on systemic racism and its infiltration of sport.

Former Cabinet Minister Hain and fellow activist Andre Odendaal’s comprehensive account of their Stop The Seventy Tour campaign showed how it forced the unprecedented cancellation of a tour.

Their disruption was so successful that the all-white Springboks squad even wanted to abort their trip, voting at Christmas to escape the chaos off the pitch and go home.

Only diplomatic pressure persuaded them to carry on. Hain’s crusade gathered irresistible momentum in the summer of 1969. He says in the book: “Anti-apartheid activists were alerted to a private tour by an all-white South African invitation side

Read more on mirror.co.uk
The website celebsbar.com is an aggregator of news from open sources. The source is indicated at the beginning and at the end of the announcement. You can send a complaint on the news if you find it unreliable.

Related News

DMCA