Campaign ‘will continue’

Press, 19 August 1981, Page 28

Campaign ‘will continue’

A campaign by “totalitarian manipulators” against South Africa would continue whether there was one manone vote or not, said the South African Consul-Gen-eral, Mr Paul Lindhorst, in a letter to “The Press.”

“The opening of sport to all has not stopped boycotts,nor will an equitable dispensation,” he said. “It would not be stopped even by a one man-one vote system unless the outcome was domination by agents of the manipulators.”

Mr Lindhorst challenged the “appeal to reason," organised by the Auckland broadcaster, Mr Gordon Dryden, and printed in news-

papers throughout the country. Mr Dryden had deliberately overlooked the reform measures which were under way in South Africa to secure greater justice for all population groups, Mr Lindhorst said. “I, call on him to respect the fact that South Africa is moving forward in the same way tliat the United States, with, (far less of a problem, moved forward in the last 40 or 50 years,” he said. In response to Mr Dryden’s use of the word “slavery” in the appeal, Mr Lindhorst said: “What of the AntiSlavery Society's revelations g that slavery is alive and

well in many, many countries which condemn South Africa for its apartheid? "The form of Government in South Africa is unrepresentative, not by African or Communist standards, but only by about 30 nations, mainly in the older Western world. The most 'oppressed' black in South Africa has more to eat than millions of Africans’ in liberated African countries," he said. It was “obvious’’ that the campaign against. South Africa would brook no difference of opinion and cared “not a whit” for “individual rights.