Rugby tour protest
Sir,—Last Friday night I had a new experience. As I marched in an anti-tour protest, flour and engine oil were hurled at me from atop a four-storey car-park building by pro-tour people. Soap and hungry enzymes cleaned up my body and clothes, but what makes me really angry is that those pro-tour people did not just dirty us but they dirty the name of all New Zealanders. There is no hungry-enzyme powerful enough to wash away the shame I feel at my country’s apparent approval of apartheid. By playing rugby with South Africa we maintain the daily oppression of nonwhites by the white ruling regime of South Africa. It will take more than flour and engine oil to stop people such as me raising our voices against apartheid and for black liberation. — Yours, etc. KATHLEEN M. ROBINSON. June 30, 1985.
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