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    Winter of Discontent: A Story about Dunedin Opposition to the 1981 Springbok Tour
    Winter of Discontent: A Story about Dunedin Opposition to the 1981 Springbok Tour
    Winter of Discontent: A Story about Dunedin Opposition to the 1981 Springbok Tour
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    Winter of Discontent: A Story about Dunedin Opposition to the 1981 Springbok Tour

    By Tony Eyre

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    1981 was the year that South Africa’s national rugby team – the Springboks – accepted an invitation from the NZ Rugby Football Union to tour New Zealand to play rugby against a number of provincial sides as well as a four test series against our national team – the All Blacks. The Springbok Tour took place in the midst of an ideologically divided country and became a flashpoint for civil disruption on a scale never before witnessed in New Zealand. This book is a personal account (largely from a protester’s viewpoint) of how one city, Dunedin – a South Island university town with a population of around 125,000 – responded in its opposition to the 1981 Springbok tour.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateSep 1, 2013
    ISBN9781483504490
    Winter of Discontent: A Story about Dunedin Opposition to the 1981 Springbok Tour

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      Winter of Discontent - Tony Eyre

      TO THE MEMORY OF

      MY SECOND COUSIN, KEN GRAY

      1938 - 1992

      ALL BLACK

      Copyright © Tony Eyre 2009

      ISBN: 9781483504490

      Acknowledgements

      Introduction

      Our 'National Game'

      The Gathering Storm

      1981 The Boks are Coming

      The Springbok Juggernaut

      The Otago Match - August 11

      Sundry Acts of Mayhem - and Mirth

      Epilogue

      Bibliography

      List of Illustrations

      Acknowledgements

      I wish to thank the following interviewees for sharing recollections and stories about their Dunedin involvement in the events surrounding the 1981 Springbok tour:

      Lance Bardwell, Clare Crafar, Yvonne Fogarty, Peter Maguire, Stephen Mulqueen, Patrick Shannon, Paul Sorrell and Fr. Kevin Toomey.

      I also wish to thank the McNab Room staff of the Dunedin Public Library for their help in locating and providing copies of newspaper articles featuring Springbok tour protests in Dunedin.

      Introduction

      1981 is a year that looms large in New Zealand's history. It was the year that South Africa's national rugby team – the Springboks – accepted an invitation from the NZ Rugby Football Union to tour this country to play rugby against a number of provincial sides as well as a four test series against our national team – the All Blacks.

      The 1981 Springbok Tour took place in the midst of an ideologically divided country. On one side, nationwide protests were carried out by New Zealanders opposed to playing sport with a country that practised racial segregation. On the other side, staunch rugby supporters defended what they saw as their right to play sport with anyone, regardless of any adverse consequences.

      The tour could only proceed with the support of the National Government at the time, backed up by an unprecedented police response. The tour did proceed and became the flashpoint for civil disruption on a scale never before witnessed in New Zealand.

      Much has been written about 1981. The violent clashes that took place in Auckland and Wellington during the Springbok Tour have been well documented. But every other New Zealand city and provincial town has its stories of the effect this rugby tour had on its community.

      Dunedin, a South Island city with a population of around 125,000 – a university town – had its own response to that divisive visit from a South African rugby team. As one who opposed their visit, this is my story about Dunedin's opposition to the 1981 Springbok Tour.

      Dunedin City from Signal Hill

      Our 'National Game'

      The Springboks must show themselves ready to hit harder and more quickly, for the clenched fist was the only language that the New Zealander understood.

      - Afrikaans newspaper, 'DieBerger', 1965, quoting a veteran of the 1956 Springbok tour ¹

      Eden Park, the home of Auckland rugby, was on my patch. Easy walking distance from my home in Mt Albert, this former swampland² had hosted visiting rugby teams since it was drained and turned into playing fields in 1914. In the 1960's, as a young boy selling souvenirs outside the ground for pocket money, I couldn't help but be swept up in the excitement, as provincial and international

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