Peter Hain ‘Stopping South Africa’s rugby and cricket teams hit them right in the gut’

Peter Hain was 19 when he realised sport was the way to bring down apartheid in South Africa – a fight captured in a powerful documentary called Stop the Tour“I was a source of great hatred,” Peter Hain says with a wry smile as he remembers how, 50 years ago this month, he led passionate anti-apartheid protests against the Springbok rugby tour of Britain and Ireland. “I was seen as a traitor by South Africa’s white volk [people] and the newspapers described me as public enemy No 1. They felt I’d completely betrayed them and, because this meant white supremacy and apartheid, I was proud to do s…