Sport and South Africa
Sir,—lt was with a heavy heart that I learned that the tour of South Africa by the England rugby team has indeed begun in earnest. Like their counterparts here, the England Rugby Football Union has chosen flagrantly to ignore advice and has instead gone to South Africa, thereby condoning the system of apartheid. One wonders what kind of person can condone apartheid, for the South African Government uses these sporting tours as a form of propaganda, both at home and overseas. What is of more concern to me is that the New Zealand Rugby Football Union could use this present tour by England as a
precedent to justify the All Blacks tour to South Africa in 1985, and on a more divisive note, to invite the Springboks here in 1987. — Yours, etc.,
PETER W. KENNEDY. May 17, 1984.
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