Springbok tour

Press, 14 May 1981, Page 16

Springbok tour

Sir, — According to the media, the police consider no serious offences were committed during Friday evening’s march. We, however, feel differently. When a white car is driven at 10 to 15 kilometres per hour from a standing start through a crowd of peaceful protesters, knocking aside several people and endangering our 80-year-old companion, an offence has surely been committed. Why is it that another citizen can commit such a deliberate and dangerous act and not be apprehended? We await with interest, comments from the M.0.T., and police. — Yours, etc., BETH BANKS, SUE ABERNETHY. May 4, 1981.

[Mr G. E. Twentyman, Deputy Assistant Commissioner of Police, replies: “An incident such as described is being investigated by the police and when finalised the results will be communicated to the parties involved.”]

Sir,—Many are consumed with anger because HART will not jump on their anti-red, anti-U.N., anti-World Council of

Churches and other crusading bandwaggons, but HART’s purpose is to stop racist tours to help excise the cancer of apartheid. HART might be better employed in fighting the supranational. capitalist conspiracy against humanity, for the Afrikaner, blessed with black labour, is the pet of those controlling gold, diamonds and uranium. Afrikaners are fanatical about their brave but shameful history, their halfbreed language inadequate for practical communication, their funny Christianity, and their rugby schizophrenia, torn between keeping it a monopoly and needing New Zealanders to defeat. It is a childish fantasy, but do not be fooled by their innocence. Mr Lindhorst and his inspired orchestra of onestring letter writing harpists is not on our side—Yours, etc., VARIAN J. WILSON. May 12, 1981.

Sir,—After seeing the leader of the New Zealand Nazis on television waving a South African flag at a pro-tour march in Auckland at the week-end I was appalled to read of S.P.I.R.’s plans to lay a wreath at the War Memorial in the Square during a pro-tour rally here on June 5. I find the spectre of a wreath being laid with Nazis in attendance as being hypocrisy of the worst kind.—Yours, etc.,

A. L. FERGUSON. May 12, 1981.