The role of the English rebel cricket tour to South Africa, 1989/1990, as a factor in the dismantling of Apartheid in South African sport

Abstract

During the 1980s South African sport was involved in two separate international tours which had far-reaching effects for the boycott actions against apartheid in sport. The Springbok rugby tour to New Zealand in 1981 and the English cricket tour of South Africa during the 1989/90 season were in many ways very different, but have since been identified by many sports historians as the two most violent tours in the history of South African sport.