Springbok tour research: how does history interpret?

Sunday marks the fortieth anniversary of the notorious 'flour-bomb' incident at Eden Park, when violence erupted outside the ground where the third and deciding rugby test between the All Blacks and the Springboks was being played on 12th September 1981. Lynn speaks with Dr Sebastian Potgieter, a Teaching Fellow at the University of Otago's School of Physical Education Sports and Exercise Sciences. Sebastian is a South African who moved to Dunedin to research a PhD on the Springboks tour, after researching the tour for his Masters back in South Africa. He's a rugby player himself. In fact, he arrived in Dunedin on a Wednesday and on the Friday was playing his first game for Dunedin's Alhambra Union Rugby Club. So far Sebastian's research indicates interpretation of historical events may shift in accordance with a desire to impose meaning on the past.