sentences:  However the movement can also be seen as part of a wider civil rights movement which emerged across the world in the 1960s.The Act was abolished under the Māori Affairs Amendment Act of 1974, led by minister of Māori Affairs, Matiu Rata 
  
  New Zealand has a long history of sporting contact with South Africa, especially through rugby union.Until the 1970s this resulted in discrimination against Māori players, since the apartheid political system in South Africa for most of the twentieth century did not allow people of different races to play sport together, and therefore South African officials requested that Māori players not be included in sides which toured their country.