From Howick : 1982

From Howick

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Dear Mum,         I’ve got a good job in private practice. It’s a nice town and now I’m staying in a home with a vet, teacher and businessman.

                In one letter you mention an argument about whether or not blacks are better off. There is no doubt that the black middle class is growing richer and more numerous. They are earning and spending more and as they say the market for goods is getting blacker and blacker. At the same time proper studies show an increasing militancy amongst blacks ie an increasing percentage of blacks who see violence as the only solution.

                Wrt Dr Aggett.  He has caused the Nats more problems dead than alive. He worked at Tladi Clinic about 2 years ago. It’s a very depressing clinic. Enormous queues of patients. A feeling of absolute hopelessness at that place. Patient compliance is very rare.

                The article on the right wing is out of date. Most of the lunatic right wing groups are seen as nuts even by the Afrikaaner and now the right-wingers in the National party are out in the cold and will wither and die. A lot of whites are under pressure and the right wingers see the solution are a return to strict apartheid and more rigid security legislation etc. that is what happened in Rhodesia and in the end the police @ army had alienated itself from the people it was meant to protect by repressive legislation and action against them.

                I saw one day of the cricket at the Wanderers. Anything else said about this has been said a hundred times before.

                                                Regards Alan