“Amandla!”
Sir, —Last evening I attended a performance of the cultural ensemble of the African National Congress for an evening of, to quote the publicity, African music, dance and theatre. Justifiably, apartheid was a theme but with such dominance that the evening should have been advertised purely as propaganda, particularly given that the A.N.C. encompasses a terrorist organisation and the cultural ensemble foirms its propaganda arm. While I I deplore apartheid and the present South African regime, I found the audience either naive or more radical than its predominantly white liberal appearance implied. For to give a standing ovation to a performance which had just 20 minutes earlier de-
picted violence and death as means to achieve its aim is beyond comprehension. It is equivalent to giving a standing ovation to an I.R.A. "cultural ensemble” who had just danced an Irish jig after depicting similar scenes of violence. — Yours, etc., ' i
WINSTON DOBBIE. April 28, 1988.
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