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Description: | In 1969 controversy surrounded the South African rugby tour of Britain and Ireland in 1969. South Africa was governed at this time by an apartheid Government. Apartheid was a system of racial segregation used in South Africa between 1948 and 1994 which restricted the civil and legal rights of non-white people. During the South Africa matches at Twickenham anti-apartheid demonstrators gathered to protest against the tour. This photograph shows a protestor on the pitch confronting three South African players. The strength of protest at all their matches meant that South Africa did not tour the British Isles again until the end of apartheid in the 1990s. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | World Rugby Museum | Rights holder: | Ms Christine Quick (London) | Subjects: | Sport | Temporal: | 2006 | Source: | World Rugby Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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