The tour that split the Nation - 1981 Springbok Tour to New Zealand 

Yeah. And I was there. Hot off Bastian Point and ready to rumble. Now just a docile Nana smiling for my moko. Still gorgeous I will hasten to add 😉🤣

Coloured/ Mixed Saffa here. Thank you so much for the price you paid for my future and freedom. I associate the 95 game with the first time I was ever proud of being South African at age 9. I didnt watch another match until this year, because NZ is so important, I couldn't miss it. ❤

I’m a Kiwi, and I was at a very conservative high school in 1981, Christ’s College, but my friends and I were horrified by the Springbok Tour, but because we were boarders at a boarding school, we had to sneak away to protest. Being 16/17 years old we were not proficient at sneaking, so we got caught trying to leave school to join the Christchurch, NZ, demonstration against the Springbok tour. The teacher who caught us gave us the mandatory detention, which we reused to serve, and which he had no interest in making us do! My family was classic rural New Zealand (Aotearoa)which in those days was Labour Mum(liberal)+ National Dad(conservative). Except liberal & conservative meant quite different things in NZ in 1981 than they do in places like the US in 2023. So typical it that Labour Mum / National Dad was a country-wide joke back then, but, New Zealand was a very different country before Helen Clarke was able to mold it to her wishes in later years. Our old 19th/20th NZ culture is gone in the north, and is dying in the south. But, so many of us who are called “Pākehā” (pale, imaginary beings resembling men)meaning those of us of European origin, remember how totally and completely offended we were by the 1981 Springbok Tour, and how hard we wanted to stop it.

If ACT get their referendum on the treaty we will see a hikoi that will make this look like picnic

I’m a South African. I remember the tour and for most of my life I was so angry at the protesters for ruining the tour. We were constantly subjected to the argument on SABC TV: keep politics out of sport. Only to discover that it was the SOUTH AFRICAN sports authorities who used to tell the New Zealand RFU who they could put in their team!! I mean how dare the the South African Rugby Football Union tell another team who they can pick for their side!! Absolutely ridiculous!!! I know you won’t believe me, but due to censorship, we genuinely did not know that the SARFU was telling other countries who they could send to play against us!!

As a black South African i have a special place in my heart for all blacks when i hear about this action ❤

Skibiti Toilet at 16:26

Hikitia, hapaiga te mahi nei. Tēnā koutou i tutuki te mura o te ahi i tērā wā, koutou gā kaipūrongo i whakarite tēnei kiriata i tēnei wā mahi whakahirahira rawa - Mauri Ora

My family are South African, I was born after apartheid ended but I 100% agree with the protests. You guys did a great deed

So we’ve gone from protesting apartheid to becoming anapartheid country, one without equal representation, one without democracy… at least the South Africans can say they didn’t know better… NZ never met a bad idea it didn’t want to emulate!

Great video - well researched and you interviewed some extremely relevant people. Well done! I was only 13 in 1981 and based in the Waikato and from a real pro rugby family. I remember my Dad cursing the protesters... Wish i was more aware of the cause... wouldve loved to ride my bike down there and get amongst the thick of it joining the protesters. They can be very proud of their stand!!

Besides everything, it was still great to watch the Rugby, on TV in South Africa, early hours of the morning...

Good they interviewed Errol Tobias. Should have also interviewed Wayne Shelford or someone similar to give an opposing viewpoint as to why they chose to play.

I would have backed politics separated from sport. Time evolves your perspective…..proud we stood up

South Africa played USA Ireland France and South America in from 1980 tp 1982. Noone else in the international community said anything until the All Blacks were involved. NZ and amateur sport was unfairly singled out by hypocrites.

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I fought against the cops only because i cant stand them 😂

South Africa is in such a better state now. 5th Highest crime rate in the world, highest crime rate in Africa.

I was at the Wellington game with my Father & my brother, we did not support apartied or racism we jus wanted to bash them at rugby & humiliate them, the protesters never understood that ...we hated racism, we had a lot Maori & Pacific islanders in all our teams on that tour, god bless them

Way too much yakketty yak rather than actual footage with talk over the top would have been far more interesting.

My brother and I had gone over the fence a week before with HART waikato university back up crew on a Recce mission We pasted stop the tour posters all over the walls and cut the wires at the base of the fence. Couldn't get the ticket booth to catch alight. The security was intense after that mission. We climbed back over near the cemetery and got away for a good party. The riot squad was waiting under the stands on the big day. SIS had even broken into uni student offices to try to figure out whats up. We caught the bastards but they got away. Fucking crazy times

Very big city Auckland-centric view of the protest movement.

People were going about their legal business. What happened, particularly in Auckland, was anarchy. The Police were upholding the rule of law. We weren't about to have people like John Minto dictate our freedom of movement. The government had to protect the rule of law.

Rewrite of history. The fence at Kowhai and Hamilton were climbed not effectively cut at all. I pulled out the top wire at Hamilton (single handed) the cutter s at the base were not effective, crawling into a rugby crowd was simply inviting violence. At Kowhai Intermediate the fence was not cut but bent over under the weight of those climbing it, including myself. The organisers did a great job of meetings, propaganda marches and creating squads but on the day it was lone operators like myself who broke the barriers.

Encyclopedia of forms and precedence and he can't do anything start of vid people power once again

This was 4 yrs before my mum was born

GLENEAGLES AGREEMENT WAS NOT HONOURED

National party at its best

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The Boks were deliberately banned from 87 cup to give nz a chance

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I love rugby to death but now I realize this tour should never have taken place

How many of these people are protesting against what jacinda ardern is doing to their country 🤔