Attitudes to South Africa

Press, 12 July 1985, Page 10

Attitudes to South Africa

Sir, — Contrary to Bert Walker’s claims (“The Press,” June 27) neither I nor the Coalition Against the Tour is desperate to win an argument with him. It is beyond argument that we will see a new South Africa where the present State will be overturned and a just society, based on the Freedom Charter, established. Meanwhile the agony and the suffering will continue as black opposition to the racists intensifies and the whites’ repression increases. Bert Walker and his fellow propagandists are an extension of that racist repression as they peddle their falsehoods about incremental change and normality in sport. Bert Walker is desperate enough when he associates himself with Mr Abe Williams, a tool of the white regime, participating in the discredited Tri-cameral Parliament, helping to entrench white rule. This association plus Mr Walkers International Christian Network link, indicate that his “facts” support white racism. — Yours etc.,GLEN MCLENNAN, Chairperson, Coalition Against the Tour. July 10, 1985.