South African policies

Press, 2 June 1981, Page 20

South African policies

Sir.—l have been awaiting the HART attack on our Race Relations Conciliator ever since a South African paid a record,price for a yearling colt at the last thoroughbred sales. Horse-racing is a sport, and I thought HART must have had a by-pass when it ignored this sporting contact, especially when another inoffensive South African who merely wanted to talk a bit of Angus bull in Christchurch had received a very cool reception from local trade unionists. However, having missed on any publicity dividends from the racehorse, the Race Relations Conciliator was HART’S logical selection for an each-way plunge. As self-appointed tipsters to the Prime Minister, they wish the Government to scratch Mr Tauroa from the Cape Town races. They want to stop Mr Tauroa getting information straight from the horse's mouth instead of using the United Nations tip-offs for the running of the wait-for-rage human race people-chase.— Yours, etc.,

G. M. EDMONDS. May 29, 1981.

Sir,—ln reply to H. M. Tait who asks if those countries which are members of the African National Congress have free and democratic elections, the answer is that no countries belong to the A.N.C. It is true that many African countries do not have one man one vote and that South Africa is only one of them. It is also true that South Africa is the only country in the world with social, economic and political racism written into its laws and violently enforced. It is for this reason that South Africa singles itself out from the rest of the world. Africa deserves our understanding and tolerance because for more than 300

years its economies have been distorted ■to serve Western needs and the whole continent has become a melting pot of different moral, cultural and intellectual systems. White South Africans continue to distort their own economy in order to serve their own selfish interests.—Yours, etc., GRAEME R. YARDLEY. May 29, 1981.

Sir,—Once again we have HART asking the Government for the sacking of a person because he chooses to go to South Africa to see for himself what it is really like. What is HART afraid of? It should welcome the news that Hiwi Tauroa is going over to see for himself. If HART has been telling the truth of wha.t is going on over there then what are they concerned about? HART and co. have no right to prey on people's feelings and induce them to make sacrifices when there are people in want in our own country —Yours, etc.,

M. J. WILTON. May 28, 1981.