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John Minto - 1981 Springbok tour
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John Minto, national organiser of Halt All Racist Tours (HART)
'I think the most important impact of the tour in New Zealand was to stimulate the whole debate about racism and about the place of Maori in our community.
'In South Africa the tour helped to bring, I think, a quicker end to the apartheid regime, along with all the other pressures from all around the world.
'The huge disappointment for me, though, is the fact that while black South Africans have gained political rights in South Africa, their economic positions, their social position is in many cases worse than it was than when they were under white minority rule and that is because of the free market policies being followed by the ANC government.'
TVNZ
Extract from 1981 tour special on Close up, 4 July 2006
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