Special Report Transcript Episode 28, Section 7, Time 33:56

Well, I’d been a sport mad young South African, fanatically into sport: rugby, soccer, cricket, motor racing the lot. And I knew how vital sport was to the maintenance of the white South African psyche and mystique and morale. And so what I came up with as a young political activist getting involved in the whole exciting area in the late sixties, with the Paris student revolt, with the marches and the demonstrations on Vietnam, all of that kind of student radicalism was the idea of using direct action protest, to physically stop South African sports to … which is what we did. Try to do to the Springbok campaign in 1969, ’70 and then we managed to stop the 1970 cricket tour, which was coming to Britain, which hit white South Africa very hard. They didn’t like me for it and that’s why they started calling me ‘public enemy no.1’ and all that kind of thing. I think what hurt them most was that it was one of their own people doing this to them from abroad.

Notes: Peter Hain; Peter Hain in England 1970. Banner: Stop the ’70 tour’

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