Scrapping of tour ‘big isolation step’
NZPA staff correspondent London
Cancelling the 1985 All Blacks rugby tour to South Africa was a “significant development in the isolation of apartheid sports," the United Nations Centre Against Apartheid said. Its blacklist of sportsmen who have had recent contact with the republic or represented South Africa abroad, has just been published. It noted that the New Zealand Rugby Union had
stopped the tour after two lawyers were granted an interim injunction by the High Court. The original decision to tour had been made in spite of “overwhelming opposition both inside and outside the country,” the centre said. Its list of blacklisted sportsmen included three minor players from New Zealand: the motor-cyclist, Dave Hiscock, the paddleskiers, John Aldermann and Andrew Martin, and the squash player, Linda McClure.
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