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Mr Hain aims for Springboks' Achilles heel (1969-11-09)

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News Report

Published

1969-11-09
The Sunday Times

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"Mr Hain aims for Springboks' Achilles heel", The Sunday Times, 09 Nov 1969, p. 24 The Sunday Times Historical Archive,, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/FP1801683575/GDCS?u=linc74325&sid=GDCS&xid=d5e19721. Accessed 17 Dec 2019

Excerpt

[Excerpt]: "SUPPORT has snowballed beyond our wildest dreams,' says Peter hain, 19-year-old chairman of the Stop the Seventy Tour Committee formed recently to co-ordinate opposition, to next year's visit to Britain of the South African cricket team but now in the thick of the furore over the current Springbok rugger tour... It was through Denis Brutus, black South African president of SANROC (the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee) that Hain met 22-year old Hugh Geach, a Reading University student in Soil Science who is now honorary secretary of STST. Brutus is one of the few activists now hounding the Springboks with first-hand knowledge of het grim realities of Apartheid..."

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  • Brutus, Dennis Vincent | Poet
  • Moynihan, Michael | Reporter
  • Hain, Peter Gerald | Politician
  • Geach, Hugh | Civilian
  • de Keyser, Ethel | Politician

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  • The Sunday Times