If the Springbok rugby tour of New Zealand in 1981 had been halted from the outset, the impact on the hearts and minds of South Africans would not have been as profound. This film's original point of difference is that it shows how events in New Zealand (captured powerfully in Merata Mita's documentary Patu!) played out in South Africa; how it energized blacks, and shamed whites as never before, stimulating long overdue democratic change.
When Nigeria (and 24 other African countries) boycotted the 1978 Commonwealth Games in protest at New Zealand's sporting links with Apartheid-era South Africa, critics loudly proclaimed that sport and politics should not mix. The Government of ...
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