-There will be a black Springbok over my dead body.-
- Dr Danie Craven, President of the South African Rugby Board, 1969
Just a year after the controversial D-Oliveira affair, the organised disruption of the all-white 1969/70 South African rugby and cricket tours to Britain represented a significant challenge to apartheid politics. Led by future cabinet minister Peter Hain, the -Stop the Seventy Tour- campaign brought about the cancellation of both tours, presaging white South Africa-s expulsion from the Olympics and the end of apartheid sport altogether.
With his brand of attention-grabbing, direct action sports protest, the 19-year-old Hain emerged as a hero to some and enemy to others. Now, reflecting on these experiences with fifty years of hindsight, Lord Hain, together with South Africa-s foremost sports historian and fellow anti-apartheid activist Andr-dendaal, shows how decades of relentless international and domestic campaigning for equality led to a
