If you talk to South Africans who were of rugby-viewing age in 1981 about the Springbok tour of New Zealand, they will recollect cradling cups of coffee in front of televisions at a chilly 4.30am, the ...

For two months during the Springbok tour of 1981, Kiwis took their corners in the battle over apartheid in a groundswell of public emotion that helped redefine a nation. Nearly a decade earlier, in ...