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Leaflet listing the fixtures in the South African Springbok cricket team’s 1960 tour of England. The leaflet asked people to protest to the South African Cricket Association at its selection of a whites-only team. There were protests at many of the games, including Sheffield, where activists planned to paint anti-apartheid slogans on the walls of the stadium.

The all-white South African Springbok cricket team that toured Britain in the summer of 1960 met with widespread protests. Andrew Burchardt remembers the dramatic events of the night when protesters in Sheffield took action against the Yorkshire v Springboks game scheduled for 6 August 1960.   

Letter and press statement from the Welsh Tourist Board stating that it would not entertain members of an all-white South African Bowling team on their visit to Wales in 1964. The decision was in response to a campaign organised by the South Wales Anti-Apartheid Movement.

AAM supporters protest at a match played by a white South African tennis player at Wimbledon. On the right is Dorothy Robinson, Anti-Apartheid Movement Secretary in the early 1960s. Also in the photograph is AAM founder member Rosalynde Ainslie.

An all-white South African rugby team toured Scotland and Ireland in 1965. This press statement, issued by the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement, listed British MPs and others who supported an appeal by 50 prominent Irishmen and women for a boycott of the matches. They included composer Malcolm Arnold, philosopher Bertrand Russell and actor James Robertson Justice.

Press release announcing details of the AAM’s campaign for a boycott of the all-white South African cricket tour of England and Wales in 1965. 

Letter from Ebbw Vale MP Michael Foot expressing support for the campaign against the Springbok cricket tour of England and Wales in 1965. South Wales Anti-Apartheid Movement Chair David Shipper wrote to every MP in Wales asking them asking them not to attend the Springboks game against Glamorgan County Cricket Club at St Helen's Ground, Swansea, and to oppose the tour.

Letter from Rhondda East MP G Elfed Davies expressing support for the campaign against the Springbok cricket tour of England and Wales in 1965. South Wales Anti-Apartheid Movement Chair David Shipper wrote to every MP in Wales asking them not to attend the Springboks game against Glamorgan County Cricket Club at St Helen's Ground, Swansea, and to oppose the tour.