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Merata Mita’s Patu! is a startling documentary record of the mass civil disobedience that took place throughout New Zealand during the winter of 1981, in protest against a South African rugby tour. Testament to the courage and faith of both the filmmakers and marchers, Patu! is a landmark in New Zealand's film history. It staunchly contradicts claims by author Gordon McLauchlan a couple of years earlier that New Zealanders were "a passionless people".
Merata Mita's Patu! is a remarkable protest story told in the face of adversity, and a monument to a time when New Zealand was torn in two by the 1981 Springbok rugby tour. You were ...
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I watched this doc back in 2009 when I was in school and just felt like watching it again, properly this time. Just couldn't believe in everything that took place. So proud of the people of New Zealand who tried their best to end the tour. I really can't believe those police officers back then, real pricks to be honest.

It is great to see this doc.I googled the stop the tour of 1981 because' Andrew Kgoti Molotsane(a SACTU trade unionist) who died in 1984 at the age of 32 was reburied here in SA on the 30 June 2012, from where he tragically passed on in Botswana
He indeed was a great motivator and orator of his time.I knew him from our days of SASM in 1974.
May he find eternal peace and watch over us as a people of SA as we navigate our painful struggle for social cohesion.
Robala ka Kgotso Molotsane!
Thank you so much for the opportunity to see this. I was involved in the protests, when i was 16. It was during this time i heard gil scott heron's song 'johannesburg' . This was a pivotal turning point in my life, and I ended up living and working with gil (RIP) for a number of years here in the USA. Much respect to everyone involved in the mobilization during this time, it made me who I am today.
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Television, 2007 (Excerpts)
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Television, 1989 (Full Length)
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Television, 1987 (Full Length)
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Television, 1996 (Full Length Episode)
A series looking at NZ social history through rugby
Television, 1982 (Full Length)
Drama set immediately after the Springbok tour
Television, 2007 (Excerpts)
Mita discusses her journey as an artist in this TV doco
Television, 2007 (Full Length Episode)
Documentary featuring anti-apartheid protestor Tigilau Ness
2012 UNESCO Memory of the World
Listed in the New Zealand Register for Documentary Heritage
Festivals include
2013 Berlin, 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, All Roads Indigenous Film Festival (United States), 1983 and 2006 New Zealand Film Festival
dont worry.
Posted at 09.58AM - 07.09.2012
mean maori cuz!!