Hurumanu 6 | Protest Movements |The Springbok Tour Protest (1891) |

For our last Hurumanu 6 topic for this term, this time we focus on several types of protests. We have learned 2 different types of protest, 1 being a peaceful kind and a revolutionary kind of protest. Anyway, for this topic, we had to pick a topic of protest that happened some time in New Zealand. After we have chosen, we then have to answer different questions about the topic that we chose. I chose to do the springbok tour protest which happened in 1891, this topic was mostly about discrimination and what happened.

The Springbok Tour Protest (1891)

What happened: For 56 days throughout July, August and September 1981, New Zealanders were divided against each other in the largest civil disturbance seen since the 1951 waterfront debate. More than 150,000 people who took part in over 200 demonstrations in 28 centres, and 1500 were charged with offences originating from these protests.

Who was involved: Police, South Africa, United Nations, Labour Party, Norman Kirk.  

Why were they protesting: The South African discrimination which has been in policy in South Africa was a cause of the protests against the Springbok tour in New Zealand in the 1980s. 

What was the outcome: The anti-apartheid movement in South Africa was hartened by the events in New Zealand. Nelson Mandela (Former President of South Africa) remembered that when he was still in his prison cell at Robben Island and heard that the game in Hamilton had been cancelled as if the sun had come out.