is for Apartheid

Apartheid was a racist legal system implemented in South Africa in 1948 to benefit the minority white population in every respect.

is for Biko

Steve Biko was the founder of the Black Consciousness Movement that started the protests which lead to the Soweto Riots 1976. The school students refused to be taught in Afrikaans and hundreds were killed as a result. Biko was later killed in police custody and his name was heard and seen many times linked to NZ protest groups in the 1981 Springbok Tour of NZ.

is for Couch

Ben Couch was the Minister of Police during the 1981 Tour and was given the job by Muldoon of ensuring all games after the cancelled Hamilton Game happened. But ironically Ben Couch was an ex-All Black who had been excluded from the 1949 tour of South Africa because he was Maori!!

is for Don

Ron Don was the current Chairman of the Auckland Rugby Union and who was extremely vocal as a pro-tour 

is for Errol Tobias

Errol Tobias was the only non-white player included in the 1981 touring Springbok side to NZ. Errol has since hailed the protests that happened in NZ during that tour for showing South Africa that Apartheid had to end!!

is for freedom

Freedom is something Nelson Mandela didn't get until after 27 years in prison for having protested against the white Government. He was finally released in 1990 and went on to be the first democratically elected President of South Africa in 1994

is for Graham Mourie

Graham Mourie was the current All Black Captain who refused to play in the 1981 Tour, therefore abdicating his place in the team. He is now known as the skipper who tackled Apartheid head-on.

is for Hamilton

Hamilton was the second game in the 1981 tour against the Waikato provincial side. Protesters had there greatest success that day when the event was cancelled. Although most thought it was the result of the pitch invasion, in truth Bob Walton, the Police Commissioner, cancelled the game as he was afraid the pilot (Pat Macquarie) who was flying a plane stolen from Taupo was going to carry out his threat of flying into a stand.

is for injustice

Injustice was rife in the system of Apartheid. In effect 90% of the population was relegated to being second-class citizens in their own country.

is for John Minto

John Minto was the key public face of the Halt All Racist Tours groups. He even had the new Police long baton unofficially named after him as the "Minto Bar". 

is for Keith Holyoake

Keith Holyoake was the PM of NZ who stopped a proposed tour of the South Africa in 1967 with his famous statement that 'in this country we are one people..."

is for Labour Prime Minister

Labour Prime Minister Norman Kirk has the courage to stop a tour of NZ by the Springboks in 1972 by not allowing visas

is for Maori players excluded from AB touring sides

From the 1928 tour of South Africa until the 1967 tour which was canceled by PM Holyoake Maori and Pasifika players were excluded from touring All Black teams to South Africa.

is for Nepia

George Nepia was the current fullback of the All Blacks in 1928 who was not allowed/excluded from touring SA because of their requested European only makeup of teams touring.

is for Olympics

The 1976 All Black Tour of South Africa during the Soweto riots drew requests from African Countries to expel NZ from the Olympics. When this request was refused 28 African Nations boycotted the 1976 Montreal Olympics.  It led to the Commonwealth Heads creating the Gleneagles Agreement of 1977 to try avert a boycott of the upcoming Commonwealth Games.

is for protest

The first major protest linked to the NZRFU All Black teams to tour SA excluding Maori was the "No Maori no tour" movement in 1959 in the lead-up to the proposed 1960 tour.