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Description: | This photograph shows anti-apartheid protesters invading the pitch at a game held at Twickenham between the South African rugby team and London Counties. The South African's tour of Britain and Ireland in 1969 was marred by protests against the apartheid government in South Africa. Apartheid was a system of racial segregation used in South Africa between 1948 and 1994. Due to some confusion between the police and the Rugby Football Union, the photographer Christine Quick, managed to photograph these dramatic scenes on the pitch unhindered. Here, the London Counties team look on as protesters and police clash. The South African team did not tour Great Britain again until the end of apartheid on 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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