spo24. ‘No Links with South African Blood Sports’

spo24. ‘No Links with South African Blood Sports’

Leaflet publicising a demonstration at a game between the British Lions and a ‘rest of the world’ squad in Cardiff on16 April 1986. The world squad included six Springboks sponsored by the whites-only South African Rugby Board. The Welsh Rugby Union had close ties with South Africa. After a long campaign by Wales AAM, it finally severed its ties with the South African Rugby Board in 1989.

Category: Sport
Author: Wales AAM
Copyright: ACTSA Cymru
Holding Institution: AAM Archive, Bodleian Library
Catalogue: MSS AAM 2227
Date/Year: 1986