Cavaliers hope for TV change in stance
By KIP BROOK NZPA staff correspondent Cape Town
The Cavaliers rugby team hopes the New Zealand authorities will change their stance on televised coverage of matches in South Africa. The manager, lan Kirkpatrick, and captain, Andy Dalton, learned yesterday that the Prime Minister, Mr Lange, did not agree with an earlier television directive banning sports coverage of the tour. ‘‘Public opinion will decide in the end,” said Mr Kirkpatrick. “We are a democratic society.
People who don’t like South Africa don’t have to watch the rugby.
"They can turn the television off. It is their own choice. I think the New Zealand public should be given the option.” Mr Kirkpatrick said the team felt awkward when welcomed by South Africa’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr Botha. “He was on the same plane. We didn’t know about it. But the brief meeting was arranged out of the blue. I don’t dislike the guy but we don’t want to be seen talking to politicians.” Mr Kirkpatrick said the
Cavaliers had gone to South Africa for rugby . free from politics.
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