South Africa
Sir,—My reply to L. R. Wilkinson (January 8) is that the important thing is that the African National Congress survived the early years, the years which apparently Mr Wilkinson does not know about. The Government of that time had no need to introduce an excuse (such as a Soviet threat) for its actions. It could afford to treat the pleas of the oppressed with contempt. Mr Wilkinson writes of “the serious consequences to democracy.” The white minority South African Government can detain people on a whim, the uncertainties of "conclusions” that people are “believed to be,” etc. I am aware that some people in New Zealand are sympathetic to that style of “democracy.” One of their biggest problems is how to introduce it to this country without making New Zealanders suspicious. I can cope with “conclusions” about me.—Yours, etc.,
KENNETH EBER MARTIN. January 8, 1987.
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