Episode 1933: Lord Peter Hain On His Book ‘Pitch Battles’, The Rise Of Athlete Activism And The Fall Of Apartheid
‘Unprecedented’ is a word that came to accurately describe many of the events of 2020, including the explosion in athlete activism that sprang from the killing of George Floyd. But, as we saw in recent weeks in the reaction of Millwall fans to players taking a knee at The Den, the attitude that sport and politics should be kept separate is still alive and well.
It’s an attitude that our guest today, Lord Peter Hain, is all too familiar with having led the Stop the Seventy Tour campaign, one responsible for the cancellation of the 1970 all-white South African cricket tour of Britain and eventually for the isolation of apartheid South Africa in international sport.
For our first show of 2021, we chat to Peter about the state of his native South Africa fifty years on, the wave of political demonstration 2020 brought to sport and how opposition to it looks exactly the same as it did in 1970.
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