Johannesburg
8.8.81
Dear Mum,
Over here the rugby tour is dominating the papers. If the
tour finishes the Afrikanners will see it as a political victory. The whole
team is full of Afrikanners with a couple of English and a token colored. The
English feel they were discriminated against in the choice of team @they were
probably right.
I don’t know if demonstrators make any difference back here.
I have been told that all the changes in the last ten years are due to external
forces. Adverse world opinion manifesting as sporting boycotts. Most English
are embarrassed with the politicians and are very sensitive about their
country. Trade continues and some sports are affected but rugby is more than a
sport to the Afrikanner. The blacks don’t play rugby. They play soccer.
I have been told that boycotts etc. make no difference or
even make the Afrikanners more truculent and more resistant to changes. i.e.
There have been great changes in the last ten years in sport and it’s all or
nothing as everybody still hates them so why try.
A lot of literature is pre-occupied with the K factor (K for
kaffir). These expatriates don’t write about SA with any objectivity. It’s
these white liberals who have been wrecking this country for years by deserting
it and leaving it to the right-wingers.
Anyway there are probably 2 million whites from which all
the English artists come so I shouldn’t expect much. Andre Brink is an Afrikaaner whose books have
been published in Australia. Very political books and the Afrikaaner feels he
is a traitor but his writing is not good enough to worry most people. Very easy
to dismiss @ ignore.
I should shorty be going to Sun City in Bophuthatswana one
of the “homelands.” Some of the blacks talk about Australia as being my
homeland. One asked me if Australia was
one of those multi-racial countries.
Regards
Alan
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