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Politics and sport - 1981 Springbok tour
South Africa's apartheid policies and attitudes created obvious problems for New Zealand rugby, given the prominence of Maori in the sport.
Gleneagles Agreement - 1981 Springbok tour
The All Blacks accepted an invitation to tour South Africa in 1976, a time when world attention was firmly fixed on the republic because of the Soweto riots.
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