Neath Rugby Town - the home of Welsh Rugby

A former local MP for Neath is Peter Hain. Although Mr Hain is a lifelong politician and occassionally attends Neath matches his involvement in rugby football is as the infamous Chairman of the "Stop The Seventy Tour" campaign. This was a group set up to oppose the South African "whites only" cricket tour of England and Wales in 1970. The group were successful in having the tour cancelled through the efforts of Mr Hain and his committee. The disruption of the 1969/70 Springbok rugby tour was meant as a dress rehearsal should the cricket tour go ahead. A book was written in 1971 detailing the strategies used by the STST organisation during the tour. We have wrote to Mr Hain requesting permission to use the chapter covering this campaign in our museum. This chapter can be found by clicking on the link below.

CLICK HERE TO READ PETER HAIN'S CHAPTER ON THE DISRUPTION OF THE 1969/70 SPRINGBOK RUGBY TOUR


front cover back cover The disruption to the 1969/70 Springbok tour was only a dress rehearsal for the 1970 South African cricket tour. This is a review copy sent to the Western Mail and reviewed by JBG Thomas, the Western Mail's chief rugby writer. (WRM-0176)		letter of permission from Mr Hain to reproduce the chapter relating to the South African Tour of 1969	Memorandum from Western Mail features editor Tony Austin to JBG Thomas requesting a book review	JBG's review notes,

We are looking for a copy of the review as it appeared in the Western Mail, anyone able to help ????