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The Lions team was selected by the Four Home Unions committee which organises Lions tours. The Lions would have toured South Africa in 1986 if the regular schedule had been followed, but in December 1985 the South African Rugby Board announced they would not be inviting the Lions side to tour South Africa the following year.
A tour to South Africa by the Lions was anticipated in 1986, but the invitation for the Lions to tour was never accepted because of controversy surrounding Apartheid and the tour did not go ahead. [15] The Lions did not return to South Africa until 1997, after the Apartheid era.
As a result, when the Lions played South-West Africa in 1968, 1974 and 1980 they were technically playing an independent nation that should have been called Namibia, but a nation that was yet to come into existence. see: 1955 British Lions tour to South Africa 1962 British Lions tour to South Africa 1968 British Lions tour to South Africa
The Lions won the first two series between the two sides in 1891 and 1896, including wins in the first six matches, but then did not win another series until their unbeaten 1974 tour. After South Africa's victory in the 1980 series , the two teams did not meet again until 1997 as a result of apartheid sanctions; the Lions won the 1997 series ...
South Africa 3–12 British Lions: 22 June 1974: Loftus Versfeld Stadium, Pretoria South Africa 9–28 British Lions: 13 July 1974: Boet Erasmus Stadium, Port Elizabeth South Africa 9–26 British Lions: 27 July 1974: Ellis Park Stadium, Johannesburg South Africa 13–13 British Lions
2009 British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa; 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa This page was last edited on 17 November 2021, at 06:55 (UTC). Text ...