Paper wrongly reports riots
By
LES BLOXHAM
Riot police battled thousands of anti-racist demonstrators fighting to stop the Springboks’ game against Southland — according to the Lagos “Daily Times” on August 10. The Nigerian newspaper reported: “As Prime Minister Robert Muldoon continues to defy world opinion — including Nigeria's warning by VicePresident Alex Ekwueme — New Zealand continues to pay a bloodier price for not shunning racist South Africa. “Hundreds of bloodied faces and bodies ended up in hospitals on Saturday as protesters fought to halt the Springboks’ match in Invercargill. “Riot police were overstretched battling thousands of
anti-racist demonstrators. Not even the unprecedented measures of erected barricades outside the stadium and coiled barbed wire around three sides of the playing pitch kept irate objectors at bay," the newspaper told its readers. The same day, Invercargill’s "Southland Times" reported about 350 protesters marched peacefully through city streets without confrontation with the police. Two people were injured as police arrested a group protesting at the Grand Hotel, where the Springboks were staying, early on the morning of the game. One of those people was admitted to hospital and the other was treated and discharged.
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