Talk:John Minto
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[edit] Personal Impressions
This person was either loved or hated in NZ due to his stance. I met him twice: the first time during a demonstation during the 1981 Springbok Tour, and the second time a few years later when he and a few colleagues were demonstating outside a business with South African sporting links. I wrote a few letters to the editor in the Auckland Star through the '80's opposing his viewpoint as I beleived that he had been instrumental in bringing New Zealand to the brink of civil war over 1981, plus I supported South Africa's anti-Communist stance. But my visit to South Africa in 1987, plus watching South Africa's change of regime in 1994, made me molify my views of this man somewhat. He fought for a cause, and though I certainly don't agree with how he did it, given the strife of 1981, he did it because he thought that the cause was right. Expatkiwi
