Solidarity. Watch and listen

 

Apartheid. 46 Years in 90 seconds

Apartheid was a system for keeping white people and nonwhites separated in South Africa. It lasted from about 1950 to the early 1990s.

BBC

 
 
 

The whole world is watching.

Listen to interviews with both protestors and reporters provide a unique insight into what it was like to be living through extraordinary periods of New Zealand history.

This video starts at 30:20, watch for 4m

Full footage clip at NZONSCREEN

 
 
 

Try Revolution

Some argue that if the 1981 Springbok rugby tour of New Zealand had been halted from the outset, the impact on the hearts and minds of South Africans would not have been as profound.

This is a 13m watch.

NZONSCREEN

 
 

Story 2: Watch and listen

 
 

Once a Panther: Division

Listen from 23:30 to 24:48 as Tigilau Ness explains how the Patu Squad was organised.

Stuff Podcast

 
 

The need to confront racism ignites a bitterly divided country during the 1981 Springbok Tour. Panther Wayne Toleafoa finds himself in the middle of the violent clashes.

 

Patu

Watch and learn about the civil disobedience that took place throughout New Zealand during the winter of 1981, in protest against a South African rugby tour

Start watching from 1m 07s

NZONSCREEN

 
 
 

Patu

Listen as Ngā Tamatoa talk about their experience in the Patu Squad.

NZONSCREEN

 
 
 

Thin edge of the wedge

Listen from 8min 28 sec. to learn more about the heated meetings, street rallies and debates that began almost immediately after the introduction of the bill into Parliament on 8 March 1985

Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision