What happened in the 1981 springbok tour?

Answer 1

TO understand what happened you must first know about the Aparteid raegiam (sorry for the typo) that was in place at this stage in South African history.

Basically aparteid means separate but equal but not in this case. In this case the whites were much more benifited then the other two groups blacks and colours.

During the 1970's several momentus events happened like: The shooting at Soweto, where a group of militants opened fire on black school children protesting about the unequal school system.

And the 'accidental' death of Steve Biko one of the most influencial black rights peaceful protestors of all the Aparteid.

Naturally the government of South Africa tried to supress these events, but the news eventually leaked out to the rest of the world.

World governments were horrified and immediately began to attempt to stop this in the forms of either boycotting (totally blocking out the country) or bridge building (continuing contact but at every contact try to get through to them that what they are doing is wrong)

So at this stage New Zealand decided to bridge-build them in the form of Rugby. But not all NZers agreed with this idea so decided to protest. This event became one of the most violent times in modern nz history.People protested in many forms: Marches, Signs, Disruption, Someone flour bombed the Eden park game from a plane, my dad even told me about a guy who snuck onto the field descuised as a referee and stole the ball hahaha. hope this helps.

Answer 2

Go to here....

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_South_Africa_rugby_union_tour_of_New_Zealand#Aftermath

I'ts a lot of help