Exam Flashcards
(21 cards)
When did the tour start
July 22 1981
Perspective 2
Robert Muldoon- Nz prime minister anti tour
Perspective 1
John Minto- HART organiser - Catholic
How many pitch invaders
300
Minto Groups
Halt all racist tours and National Anti Apartheid Council(70s)
Minto school
(60s)Catholic youth school based around soical justice issues
Hamilton Test
July 25th 1981
When was muldoon PM
1975
Muldoon Action
August 1981, at the height of the Springbok rugby tour protests, Prime Minister Robert Muldoon released a list of 15 ‘subversives’. Which he claimed were associated with communist ideals - Political gain and to threaten anti-tour protestors.
Minto Action
Invading the pitch - Media attention and HART organisation
Quote 1 Minto
“I think it’s(his perspective) a value based thing,”
Quote 3 Minto
The TV images went around the world and shocked white South Africans
Quote 4 Minto
New Zealand’s greatest links with South Africa were in sport so we were campaigning to cut those links
Quote 2 Minto
We were determined to do all we could to stop the tour
extra minto quote
Muldoon quote 1
Sports and politics should not mix
Quote 4 muldoon (By witness)
It was like trench warfare; - Bill Ralston witness
Where was hamilton
Rugby Park
Muldoon Ideology
Conservative
COST
Citizens opposed to the springbok tour
Most
Mobilisation to stop the tour
