Author(s): Tom Newnham

NZ Society | Secondhand

Apartheid is one of the major issues of New Zealand domestic and foreign politics in the later half of the twentieth century. It has put New Zealand at the centre of multilateral international sporting boycotts (in 1976), seen near civil war (in 1981), made New Zealand the place of the largest anti-apartheid demonstrations outside South Africa (again, in 1981), and made New Zealand the pariah of the Commonwealth. 

Tom Newnham is President o the Citizens Association for Racial Equality. He sees New Zealand as a multi-racial society, dedicated both nationally and internationally to racial justice but which by an accident of history has become intimately involved with another country committed to the completely opposite ideology-racial oppression. In this book he traces how New Zealanders have faced and are continuing to face up to this potentially explosive relationship, and poses the question, "Will New Zealand be made or broken by the South African experience?"

VG though the hinge is loose.