Foreign relations of South Africa during apartheid South Africa with the All Blacks, and the tour was cancelled. New Zealand made a decision not to convey an authorised rugby team to South Africa again. B. J. Vorster took Verwoerd's place as PM in 1966 and declared that South Africa would no longer dictate to other countries what their teams should look like. Although this reopened the gate for sporting meets, it did not signal the end of South Africa's racist sporting policies. In 1968, Vorster went against his policy by refusing to permit Basil D'Oliveira, a Coloured South African-born cricketer, to join the English cricket team on
South African cricket team in England in 1998 South African cricket team in England in 1998 The South African cricket team toured England in the 1998 season to play a five-match Test series against England. England won the series 2-1 with two matches drawn after being 1-0 behind with only the last two matches to play. South Africa played a three-match series of One Day Internationals (LOI) against England in May at the start of the tour and then played a short LOI tri-series against England and Sri Lanka to close the tour in August. In addition, South Africa played seven first-class matches against Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Sussex, Durham,