How a rugby game became a battle against apartheid

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Rugby and apartheid: 50 years on from the 'Battle of Swansea'

More than 100 people were hurt, including 11 police officers.The then-Home Secretary and future Prime Minister James Callaghan stopped short, claiming cancelling events people disliked would be a"dangerous and slippery slope".Image copyright"Among the questions that I shall ask to be examined is the extent to which stewards are helpful," Mr Callaghan told Parliament.

"What we did was very small, but we did what we could. Rugby is important but it's not more important than people's human rights."Nelson Mandela was elected president in 1994, the year before South Africa's historic Rugby World Cup victoryIn London, the Springboks team bus was even"hijacked" by a protestor on the morning of the Test against England.

"The shocking thing to me was no-one was defending us. Our management was saying nothing, the [home unions] were hardly saying boo to a goose. Although it wasn't an easy team to defend, you could defend the right to be there."The Welsh anti-apartheid movement was claimed to be"among the most effective" in the world at the time

 

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I was there. Sixteen years old and told that demonstrations would solve nothing. Well, we fought hard to stop apartheid and it worked. We got the nukes out of Greenham Common and, please god, it might stop Brexit, too!

'Violence marred a peaceful anti-apartheid protest...'🤔 The BBC only hires leftist idiots. South Africa was a first world country with a nuclear program and pioneering hospitals, now it's a violent mess.

nobody likes welsh people ..Awh in South Africa

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