1981 South Africa Rugby Union Tour of New Zealand - in New Zealand Culture

In New Zealand Culture

• Prominent artist Ralph Hotere painted a Black Union Jack series of paintings in protest against the tour.
• Merata Mita's documentary film Patu! tells the tale of the tour from a left-wing perspective.
• John Broughton wrote a stage play, 1981 examining the way The Tour divided a family.
• Music popularly associated with the Tour included the punk band RIOT 111, and the songs "Riot Squad" by the Newmatics and "There Is No Depression In New Zealand" by Blam Blam Blam.
• Ross Meurant, commander of the police "Red Squad", published Red Squad Story in 1982, giving a conservative view. ISBN 978-0-908630-06-6
• The TVNZ 1980s police drama Mortimer's Patch included a flashback episode of the (younger) main character's Tour police duties
• In 1984 Geoff Chapple published 1981: The Tour, a book chronicling the events from the protesters' perspective. ISBN 978-0-589-01534-3
• In 1999 Glenn Wood's biography Cop Out covered the tour from the perspective of a frontline policeman. ISBN 978-0-908704-89-7
• David Hill, New Zealand author, has written a book, The Name of the Game, which is as story of a schoolboy's personal struggles during the tour. ISBN 978-0-908783-63-2
• New Zealand leftist Tom Newnham's book By Batons And Barbed Wire is one of the largest collections of photos and general information of the protest movement during the tour itself. ISBN 978-0-473-00253-4 (hardback). ISBN 978-0-473-00112-4 (paperback)
• The documentary, 1981: A Country At War, chronicled the Tour from various perspectives.
• The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa has collected a number of objects related to the Tour including images, helmets and an entrance ticket. The exhibition Slice of Heaven: 20th Century Aotearoa has a section about the Springbok Tour.
• Rage, a dramatisation of the Tour written by Tom Scott, was filmed in mid-2011 and had its first broadcast on New Zealand's TV One on 4 September 2011.
• The Engine Room, a play by Ralph McCubbin Howell, opened at BATS Theatre in Wellington on 27 September 2011. It contrasts the dual stories and viewpoints of John Key and Helen Clark during both the 1981 tour and the 2008 general election.