24 OCTOBER 1987, Page 25

Fiji principle

Sir: If Auberon Waugh (Another voice, 5 October) firmly believes that Melanesians in Fiji are entitled to usurp political power for all time just because they are the indigenous population, would he be pre- pared to extend the same principle to South Africa and demand that Botha surrenders to the native Africans who have become political outcasts in the land of their birth?

K. Hazareesingh

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