Stopping the tour
Helen Tunnah has a damning piece in the Herald this morning about the Black Caps’ tour of Zimbabwe. She has questioned the General Secretary of Robert Mugabe’s main opposition - the Movement for Democratic Change. Welshman Ncube, the general secretary, told Tunnah that the tour should not go ahead. Said Nucbe:
The only way to show that they do not support the chaos and the wickedness that is going on in Zimbabwe is for them to stay away…
It is a moral choice. The grave suffering is managed by a group of individuals who are running a criminal state to enrich themselves and to continue to oppress others… They should make that moral choice that they will not do anything which might be remotely conceived as supporting the regime.
Now, Phil Goff has said in the House that this tour is quite different from the Springbok Tour because:
There is a difference between playing sport against a team that was inherently part of the apartheid system and chosen on apartheid grounds, and the Zimbabwe cricket team, many members of which, I suspect, strongly oppose what their own Government is doing.
Okay, but surely if the major forces opposing Mugabe in Zimbabwe are saying the Black Caps shouldn’t come, the least we can do is heed their wishes?
