Human Rights and Sporting Contacts
Subtitle: New Zealand Attitudes to Race Relations in South Africa 1921-94
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Published: November 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781869401702
Subjects: International relations; Multicultural studies; Social issues; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Second World War, 1939-1945; South Africa; Government policy; Sports & Recreation; Sociology; Sports; New Zealand; Republic of South Africa; General; Apartheid; Discrimination in sports; Public opinion
Description: Malcolm Templeton gives an account of the development of New Zealand attitudes to South Africa, especially as they came to be dominated by the international struggle against apartheid, and particularly the vexed issue of sporting contacts. He records the positions taken by successive New Zealand governments as international pressure intensified for economic sanctions and sports boycotts against South Africa; and the shifts in public opinion on what had become by 1981 one of the most bitter controversies the country had known.