Springbok tour

Press, 29 December 1980, Page 16

Springbok tour

Sir, — Full marks to our Minister of Police. He has obviously been to ■ South Africa. On, reading Anthony Brown’s letter -one-can see what two decades of hostile propaganda can do to a correspondent In'./his' letter he states that. 'Bishop, Ashby stands ujt/’in defence/ of black people in South Africa who want, the right to a descent life. If thdt is so why not make statements about the queues of blacks lined up for maize - in Zambia dr Tanzania? In South Africa anyone can buy a loaf of bread for- 15 cents with no queuing. — Yours, etc., - DAVID DUMERGUE. . December. 27, 1980'. Sir, — To answer... G. M. Ensor (December 23), ? 1 spent more than two years in South Africa . during World War II under FieldMarshal Smuts, -who . believed in steady progress towards complete racial integration, and / dreaded the victory of the anti-war, proHitler faction' which’ would

(and did) destroy My extensive knowledge, of South Africa convinces- me that: the opportunities /for black, Coloured and Indian people there to achieve true human dignity are further away than ‘ ever.- The comparison of living, with a seven-to-one majority of Maoris .'..’Sover Europeans shows a slave-owner men- > tality. The ,ratio, is much higher in oufneighbouring nation,. Fiji (with a positive growth rate and low inflation);, where indigenous, Indian and European'?Fijians live and work together in harmony. South Africa has had all the' “time” it needs — time which has surely run out. — Yours, etc., VARIAN J. WILSON. December 2,3; 1980. Sir, — I congratulate Rob Muldoon for sticking to his election pledge not to interfere with the tour; And very rightly ■ Ben Couch stated that terrorists - and thugs who threaten; to disrupt the tour: should be paying for extra policing .tour costs. Mr Couch understands justice. It is also with relief that “Gleneagles Taiboys” is resigning as we do not. need him nor his socialist, "treaty;” If the Maoris can have a Maoris only team to play the Springboks then the Rugby Union should allow a Europeans only team also to play the Springboks. During the tour H.A.R.T., C.A.R.E.,'

‘ ' • • 'A T■ leftist clerics and the Labour .Party can all go and seek .political : asylum in ’“free democratic and .-Y liberated” Zimbabwe with their friends Mugabe, and? Tekert.: — Yours, etc., ' ’ ..lANG.ROBINSON. December .23, 1980. j