S.A. envoy criticised

Press, 10 February 1981, Page 6

S.A. envoy criticised

The South African ConsulGeneral (Mr P. R. Lindhorst) stood condemned for allowing false information to be issued from his -office, said the vice-president of the Citizens’ Association for Racial Equality (Mr T. O. Newnham) yesterday. Mr Newnham. was referring to a denial by a South African Consulate-General secretary last month that the South African Government sent lists of its sports? men and women to the news media showing that they had competed in international sporting events.' According to C.A.R.E., the South African Government distributed the lists worldwide to show that the international boycott against apartheid sport was not being effective. "Already, less -than a month later, the official South African Government publication ‘South African

Digest’ is hailing the performance of those persons who were not supposed to have been ’South African Citizens’.” For denying the charge Mr Lindhorst stood condemned, Mr Newnham said. The South African Government would "stop at nothing” Jo maintain sporting contacts, and to that end New Zealand was q prime target.