19 NOVEMBER 1977, Page 18

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Sir: I am deeply distressed by your pb ishing the paragraph by my friend Peregrine Worsthorne (Notebook, 29 -October) in corn' which he stated that I have 'little sympathy for the cause of black power'. What I've always said, and written in nlY books and in my South African newspaper articles, is that I am opposed to power, to repression, restriction, cruelty, detention without trial whether operated bY Afrikaner, Chilean, Chinese, Russian, 'Ugandan governments, whatever plexions their leaders may possess. (Miss) Joni Jabavu P.O. box 41386, Nairobi, Kenya