Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 27, No. 3. 1964.
"Dom" Stays Silent
"Dom" Stays Silent
Rumours have come to our notice that the Dominion decided not to print a news report of the demonstrations against the South African European Cricket team. This despite the fact that such a report had been written by a Dominion reporter.
It is believed that the report refers to the way in which the driver of the bus taking the tourists to their hotel nearly foiled the demonstrators.
The report apparently says that the demonstrators silently held their placards high as the tourists tiled off the bus, at the Hotel St. George.
The article is thought to have recorded the slogans on the banners and commented that the South Africans ignored the banners but looked grim. The team's manager, Mr. K. Viljoen is apparently reported as having said that the demonstrators did not bother the side in any way.
Salient has also heard of a photograph of the demonstration which was not published. The caption prepared for it is thought to have read:
"People are equal in their eyes—members of the group which demonstrated against the South African cricketers yesterday afternoon. Later the demonstrators met the tourists as they filed off their bus outside the St. George Hotel,"