Rugby tour 'means defeat for P.M.’
NZPA-Reuter Johannesburg
A South African sports administrator. Mr Hassan Howa. has said that the New Zealand Prime Minister (Mr Muldoon) would be defeated at the General Election because of the furor over the Springbok rugby tour. Mr Howa. Indian president of the South African Council of Sport, has been a strong critic of the tour.
“The Springboks should not have gone," he said. “Now we see what the results are in New Zealand and around the world." "I believe Mr Muldoon will lose the election because of the tour.
“Because of what has happened. politicians in other countries will be very wary in future of allowing South African sports tours. They
will be thinking of their own political future." Mr Howa said that the Springboks had suffered a loss of dignity because of the reception they had received and they should not have been asked to go to New: Zealand. "The tour should not be carried on," he said. “They should be brought home now." The tour has been opposed in South Africa by many nonwhite sports and political leaders. However. Mr Cuthbert Loriston. president of the Coloured (mixed race) Rugby Federation, said that he was in favour of the tour's going ahead. The ohly non-white member of the Springbok team, Errol Tobias, is a federation player. Mr Loriston is also on the executive committee
of the South African Rugby Board, the sport's governing body. "Our Springbok team in New Zealand has been selected on merit and the fact that it was not all of the same racial, national, or religious mixture at birth is purely fortuitous." Mr Loriston said. “What matters here, and is of paramount importance in our changing world, is that all are South Africans — and we expected them to be accepted as such and treated in a way that will give them the opportunity to react with dignity to hospitality similar to that which we have always given to others. “We expect the forces of law and order to protect us from would-be law-break-ers." he said. j
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