I felt strongly that the 'celebration” of the past Springbok Tour protest, John Minto's dream, as seen on TV last night ( Sunday) served little purpose but to show off and to stroke their egos.
I'll applaud them when they shine the long overdue searchlight on Robert Mugabe's horrendous record in Zimbabwe, since he took over from the despised colonial government, and effectively, deliberately ruined a prospering economy and reduced his people to the state they're in now, stealing millions in Aid money for himself. The rights of the people? What are they?
Opportunities to protest just come and go, and no amount of specious reasoning can excuse these zealous protestors from at least taking up the most obvious one, ie blockading future cricket tours from NZ. to Zimbabwe, which, as we all we know, is Mugabe's passion. Should be a piece of cake after the Springbok Tour.
Another thought, on the use of words to inflame. Let's leave the poor, dear golliwogs alone, and turn our wrath on the opportunistically-used term, racist. We'll get far more satisfactory mileage out of that one! It's becoming a well polished skill.

D. Holm, Tauranga.