From Melbourne
21.4.82
Dear Alan,
That
was unfortunate that the man you are with is a bit odd. I have found out that
if you are paid you can do anything for a little while as long as you know you
do not have to do it forever. I have enclosed an article from last Saturday’s
Age. Peter Smark is a reporter who has been a few months in South Africa and I
think he is coming back now. It doesn’t
seem to bias either one way or the other but you are in a much better position
to know that than me. Tell me what you think of it.
We just
received a letter from you with a photo of the Victoria Falls @ a soldier it
didn’t have enough postage so it was sent surface mail. You never know one day
we might see the falls. It was nice to see scenery etc. but I think I would
rather meet people. Both would be better.
You
remarked about the photo you sent how the white people think the black people
are ugly. I have just read several books about the Kalahari Desert and it
seemed that the Bushmen were down the bottom of every bodies list. When you
read of the trouble in Nth Ireland and between the Jews and the Arabs, and in Central
America you wonder whether people will ever learn to live together. Last Sunday
we had a Baptist minister who had just come back from Zambia. I was speaking to
him afterwards. He said he was walking by himself in a town near the copper
mines when he was stopped by a black man. The man held onto him @ asked him
where he came from. He said Australia but the man wouldn’t believe him. He asked him who the Prime Minister was @
other questions. The black man was sure he was a South African. The black man
let him go but he felt that if he hadn’t answered the questions to his
satisfaction he would have been hurt.
All the
papers in Australia this week @ the editorials have been about 2 ministers who
lost their jobs from the cabinet because one bought in a colored TV set without
paying duty and the other did nothing when he found out. What a difference to
so much of the world.
Dad,
Beverley @ myself are going to stay a few days when the term ends with Lois. We
are going up on the train (I hope) Friday night staying in Mildura 3 days @
then coming home with Lois.
This
weekend Pamela is coming with me to Trentham she has got new shoes to go on her
hiking holiday in Kashmir and needs to try them out.
Were
those black people you sent photos of Zulus? I have read that they stand out
among the tribes of South Africa. The Masai further north always impress me
too.
Love
from Mum
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