Sanctions

Press, 25 August 1986, Page 20

Sanctions

Sir,—People are judged by the company they keep. By supporting sanctions against South Africa, New Zealand is now firmly in bed with the South African Communist Party and the Marxist African National Council. Do New Zealanders really want to be so intimately associated with those cowards who target, kill, mutilate the helpless, the unarmed, the innocent? They use weapons made in the U.S.S.R. They use the necklace after having chopped off hands and feet. They rape and torture small children. What has. a small defenceless child to do with one man, one vote, particularly when the black dictators who are demanding it in South Africa refuse to accept it in their own countries? A mini Commonwealth conference did favour sanctions, but only the mini-minded members accepted them.—Yours, etc., BERT WALKER. August 19, 1986. Sir, —The New Zealand Government is joining the bully boys of the Commonwealth in imposing further sanctions against South Africa. We are told that they will not do much damage, which is largely true. When the South Africans are finally provoked into defending themselves, our Government and local antiwhite Leftists can scream and foam for war. It is interesting to note that the British Empire, now the Commonwealth, from 1946 onwards, has itself followed the path of separate development, or apartheid, and still has the gall to point the finger at Pretoria. In such a sanctions war, the so-called “front-line” States which lead the hate, campa&n against South will

indeed suffer. However, it will not be the Mugabes, Kaundas, and others of their ilk who shout the loudest for sanctions who will go hungry if counter-measures become necessary. It will be the ordinary black folk. — Yours, etc.,

C. C. HALFORD. August 21, 1986.