On Monday Brian spoke with John Minto. Former National Organiser for HART (Halt all Racist Tours) John is traveling around the country holding meetings in all the centres which hosted the Springboks in 1981 on the actual dates of the games, as part of the 40th anniversary of the 1981 Springbok Rugby Tour to New Zealand.

This Sunday sees the second stop on the tour in Hamilton, that brought New Zealand to a standstill in 1981.

NZ History website wrote that Rugby Park was packed for the first Saturday game of the controversial tour. More than 500 police officers were present in the city. The authorities were unaware, however, that protest organisers had bought several hundred tickets for the game. Shortly before kick-off, several hundred others tore down a boundary fence and poured into Rugby Park from a nearby street.

One of those protesters was Brendan Corbett writer & activist who joins us now with his lovely wife Kahoa who is the founder of the very first Public Library in the Kingdom of Tonga

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