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ISF World Softball Championship parade, 1976

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ISF World Softball Championship parade, 1976

A crowd cheers the South African team as the participants in the 1976 ISF (International Softball Federation) Men's World Softball Championship march through Lower Hutt, the tournament's host city (top). There were mixed reactions to the South African presence. At the tournament itself around 2,000 anti-apartheid protesters gathered (bottom).

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: 1/4-028230-F (top); 1/4-28236-F (bottom)

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Tony Smith and David Green, Softball and baseball – New Zealand softball on the world stage, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/39639/isf-world-softball-championship-parade-1976 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Tony Smith and David Green, published 30 November 2012, updated 1 July 2015.