The 1981 Springbok Tour was a tour involving a NZ Rugby team and the South African Springboks. However, due to recent Apartheid policies in South Africa following the Soweto Riots, the New Zealand rugby team was not allowed to include some of their most valuable players in the team, for they were Maori. This caused huge outrage that resulted in one of New Zealand's largest ever protest movements. It changed the outcomes of many elections, divided families and eventually left the whole country divided. It raised a greatly important issue in our society, which is, 'should politics and sport be mixed?'