Halt All Racist Tours
Alternate Names: Halt All Racist Tours: The New Zealand Anti-Apartheid Movement, HART Aotearoa, The New Zealand Anti-Apartheid Movement
Location: New Zealand
Duration: 1969 - 1992
The Halt All Racist Tours movement (HART) was formed in 1969 to oppose the 1970 tour of South Africa by the New Zealand national rugby team, the All Backs. HART became New Zealand's main anti-apartheid organization. Initially the primary focus of the organization was the sports boycott of South Africa. It worked to end all sporting ties between...
The Halt All Racist Tours movement (HART) was formed in 1969 to oppose the 1970 tour of South Africa by the New Zealand national rugby team, the All Backs. HART became New Zealand's main anti-apartheid organization. Initially the primary focus of the organization was the sports boycott of South Africa. It worked to end all sporting ties between New Zealand and South Africa. Protests against the 1981 tour of New Zealand by the South Africa's rugby team, the Springboks, resulted in massive protests across the country. Although the protests failed to stop the tour, no more ruby matches took place between the two teams until after the end of apartheid. Best known for its opposition to sporting contacts with South Africa, HART also campaigned against all contacts with apartheid South Africa. In 1980 HART merged with the National Anti-Apartheid Committee, becoming HART: the New Zealand Anti-Apartheid Movement. HART:NZAAM opposed all contact with apartheid South Africa, advocating the political, economic, social and cultural isolation of the regime. For more than 20 years it worked to raise public awareness of the realities of apartheid. Increasingly, especially in the 1980s, HART also took a stand against racism in New Zealand. Trevor Richards served as HART's chair (1969-1980) and HART:NZAAM's international secretary (1980-1985). (For more information see Dancing on Our Bones: New Zealand and South Africa, Rugby and Racism by Trevor Richards, [New Zealand: Bridget Williams Books, January 1999])
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