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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 28, No. 12. 1965.

Positive Apartheid Demonstration

Positive Apartheid Demonstration

Salient Reporter

A More positive approach to demonstrating against apartheid was instituted by a group of individuals, some of them students, two nights before the first rugby test.

Despite some rather unrewarding encounters with the members of Her Majesty's forces, some four hundred posters bearing slogans such as "Sharpeville—Sport Without Politics," "Apartheid, The Epitome Of Christianity," "Don't Discriminate Against Anyone— Unless He's Black." "Black Rugby Teams—Pigments Of The Imagination," "Try Dr. Verwoed's Whitening Pills For Social Diseases," were posted throughout the city area.

Most were ripped down on Friday morning, however. This is hardly surprising in view of the places in which some of the slogans were posted.

One was posted on the notice-board of the Central Police Station, a number were posted on Parliament Buildings, and the churches also received attention.

It is understood that two posters were affixed to the windows of the Prime Minister's Residence, and one to his front door.