The 1969–70 South Africa rugby union tour of Britain and Ireland was a rugby union tour by the South Africa national rugby union team to the Northern Hemisphere.
There were a number of anti-apartheid protests throughout the tour.
[1] The controversial tour happened during the apartheid era in South Africa, and came shortly after the D'Oliveira affair.
There were protests at many of the matches, by anti-apartheid campaigners, calling themselves 'Stop the Seventy Tour', organised by Peter Hain.
Future British prime minister Gordon Brown was the group's Edinburgh organiser.