Fifty years ago the Anti-Apartheid Movement and Stop the Seventy Tour launched the campaign that led to the AAM’s first big victory – the cancellation of the all-white Springbok cricket series in June 1970. Thousands of people took part in demonstrations and pitch invasions of the Springbok rugby tour that began in November 1969, and forced the cancellation of the cricket tour planned for the following summer.
Were you there? If so please send us your memories for a new pamphlet about the campaign.
Contact historians Geoff Brown at [email protected] or Christian Hogsbjerg at [email protected]