Henry Isaacs, permanent Pan Africanist Congress representative at the United Nations, provided the highlight of the HART regional conference held in the Union Hall on Saturday 21 March. He warned of the danger of the New Zealand Anti-Apartheid Movement being outflanked by the Pretorian regime: "Even if every apartheid law was repealed tomorrow, it wouldn't make any difference to the economic position or political rights of blacks."

About 200 people attended the conference, from New Zealand's central regions from Nelson up to Palmerston North.

Much of Henry Isaacs speech content was similar to that he gave in the Union Hall the previous Thursday. He outlined the necessity to support the Black liberation movements of Azania (a word meaning Black Nation, used by the Black South Africans to describe their country), and warned against opposing the tour solely because of the abhorrent laws which help to maintain the apartheid system.