Even before the apartheid laws were passed after 1948 , sporting teams going to South Africa had felt it necessary to exclude non-white players . New Zealand rugby teams in particular had done this , and the exclusion of George Nepia and Jimmy Mill from the 1928 All Blacks tour , and the dropping of Ranji Wilson from the New Zealand Army team nine years before that , had attracted little comment at the time . However , in ' '' 1960 ' '' international criticism of apartheid grew in the wake of '' The Wind of Change '' speech and the Sharpeville massacre
Sharpeville massacre
Sharpeville massacre
History of the South Africa national rugby union team