Sporting boycott of South Africa during the apartheid era earliest days with the coloured cricketer Krom Hendricks excluded from provincial and national teams from the 1890s. However, the cricketing boycott was prompted by the reaction of the South African authorities to the selection of Basil D'Oliveira, a "Cape Coloured" South African, for the England national cricket team in 1968; see the D'Oliveira affair. The 1970 South African tour of England was called off and replaced by a "Rest of the World" tour featuring several South African players. The International Cricket Conference (ICC) imposed a moratorium on tours in 1970. There were several private tours in the 1970s and "rebel"
1951–52 South Africa rugby union tour of Europe 1951–52 South Africa rugby union tour of Europe The 1951–52 South Africa tour of Europe was a collection of friendly rugby union games undertaken by the South Africa national rugby union team against the four Home Nation teams and France. The tour also took in several matches against British, Irish and French club, county and invitational teams. This was the sixth South Africa tour and the fourth tour of the Northern Hemisphere. It was also the first time the South Africans played the invitational British Barbarian team. The tour was the most successful the South African team had undertaken; the