John Minto (Founder of the organisation HART)
John Minto is a New Zealand political activist known for his involvement in many left wing disputes and groups. He is recognised for starting the protest group HART during the 198
John Minto believed that the South African rugby team that was touring New Zealand was a white supremacist team. Minto started the anti-tour organisation called HART or Halt All Racial Tours in 1969 and he became chairman of the organisation in 1980 just before the tour began.
John Minto believed that it was wrong that the NZRU (New Zealand Rugby Union) decided to invite the South African rugby team to New Zealand and then how Robert Muldoon refused to step in and a stop it. In the weeks leading up to the tour Minto organised people who also opposed the tour to try and come up with ways in which they could possibly stop the tour. Minto set up petitions to stop the tour and sent them off to the government and some even directly to the Prime Minister at the time Robert Muldoon.
People began to join the group HART in numbers as it began to get closer to the tour happening and from the South African team arriving in New Zealand. John Minto wanted a presence of his group HART in every town that games were being played. On a number occasions during the tour Minto tried to invade the pitch with his supporters to try and stop the game from going ahead.
In more recent years Minto has been involved with a new indigenous rights socialist party called the Mana Party formally called the Mana Movement. In April 2013 Minto announced his intention to run in the 2013 Auckland Mayoralty campaign.
John Minto believed that the South African rugby team that was touring New Zealand was a white supremacist team. Minto started the anti-tour organisation called HART or Halt All Racial Tours in 1969 and he became chairman of the organisation in 1980 just before the tour began.
John Minto believed that it was wrong that the NZRU (New Zealand Rugby Union) decided to invite the South African rugby team to New Zealand and then how Robert Muldoon refused to step in and a stop it. In the weeks leading up to the tour Minto organised people who also opposed the tour to try and come up with ways in which they could possibly stop the tour. Minto set up petitions to stop the tour and sent them off to the government and some even directly to the Prime Minister at the time Robert Muldoon.
People began to join the group HART in numbers as it began to get closer to the tour happening and from the South African team arriving in New Zealand. John Minto wanted a presence of his group HART in every town that games were being played. On a number occasions during the tour Minto tried to invade the pitch with his supporters to try and stop the game from going ahead.
In more recent years Minto has been involved with a new indigenous rights socialist party called the Mana Party formally called the Mana Movement. In April 2013 Minto announced his intention to run in the 2013 Auckland Mayoralty campaign.