[DEBATE] : Reminder - CCS seminar on the legacy of the anti-apartheid sports boycotts, with John Minto, 16 April, 10am-noon

[Patrick Bond]

Join us at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil Society

Seminar: The Legacy of Anti-apartheid Sports Boycotts
Speaker: John Minto
Date: Thursday, 16 April 2009
Time: 10am-noon (NOTE NEW TIME)
Venue: CCS/SDS seminar room, Memorial Tower Building Room F208
University of KwaZulu-Natal Howard College Campus

Queries: poonenh at ukzn.ac.za or 031-260-3195

The 1960s-90s sports boycott of apartheid was one of the most successful
sustained campaigns of international solidarity. One central figure was
Dennis Brutus (CCS Honorary Professor), who prevented all-white South
African teams from playing in the Olympics from 1968 onwards. Another
who made rugy and cricket impossible between New Zealand and apartheid
South Africa was John Minto.

Minto is a political activist who was spokesperson for HART - the New
Zealand Anti-Apartheid Movement - during the 1980s, and a leader of the
campaign to stop the 1981 Springbok tour to New Zealand. Early last year
Minto was in the SA news for rejecting nomination for government's
Oliver Tambo award, on grounds that African National Congress economic
policies oppress the majority. Minto has been a high school teacher for
the last 25 years, and currently works for Unite Union – a trade union
for low-paid workers in New Zealand. He is also a spokesperson for
Global Peace and Justice Auckland and is National Chairperson of the
Quality Public Education Coalition.