This weekend the Springboks play the All Blacks on Eden park which was where that infamous flour bomb test took place in 1981.

Sorry folks, just a quick insert from GBS… I do not want to spoil McLook’s Article but I thought it wise to insert some video footage here, before McLook’s actual Article… as an appetiser.

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I was then and still find myself today extremely irritated by the self-rightous arrogance of the man and the incredible inability of the New Zealand forces to sort him out. 

 Police car being turned upside down by protestors during the 1981 tour.

The man’s name is Marx Jones, for those who have wondered, and he got only 6 months jail for his stunt that endangered 40 000 people for something that he clearly did not fully understood.

Here is firstly a newspaper article about the flour bomber in which he now critize the ANC goverment and calling Nelson Mandela an asshole.

Clicking on this link will take you to an televison interview with the idiot in which he stated that the Springbok team were all members of the broederbond.

Marx Jones is the man who flew the plane that flour-bombed Eden Park during the third and final test match of the 1981 Springbok rugby tour.

But 29 years on from that powdery yet indelible protest against South Africa’s racist political policies, Jones plays down his part in history. “It’s still taken way out of context because there were thousands of people protesting and doing all sorts of things.”

He blames the romance of flying. But the events of September 12, 1981 are pure thriller mixed with baking products – specifically self-uprising flour.

Jones, 32 at the time, says he took the little Cessna lower than the top of the goalposts during some fly-overs, but usually was just above them. His “bombadier” Grant Cole was dropping one-pound (450g) paper flour bombs. “We used paper instead of plastic because we wanted them to burst on impact so no one would get hurt,” says Jones.

Some people were hurt but none seriously. Flour bombs hit at least eight people in the crowd before the bombers got their eye in and the pitch was peppered.

Famously, All Black prop Gary Knight was felled by a direct hit to the head.

Apart from a fleeting moment outside court in 1981, Jones has never come face to face with Knight – but has thought about it. When Jones saw Knight’s Manawatu dairy farm had been ravaged by flood in 2004, his first reaction was to help.

“I nearly rang him up to offer to come down and help him rebuild. I must have been drinking.”

He also passed up the opportunity to meet Nelson Mandela, who said those Springbok tour protests gave him hope while he was in jail in South Africa. Jones is chuffed the protesters helped Mandela and other black South Africans but clearly he hasn’t been too impressed with the work of Mandela and his ANC party since his release in 1990.

“When Mandela came to New Zealand, the asshole spent most of his time with [prime minister Jim] Bolger who was totally pro-tour. He’d allotted an hour to see us at a church which didn’t appeal to me much anyway. I actually wrote a note saying that I really would like to meet him, but I wasn’t going to meet him under those circumstances and that I had some disagreements with his policies. I gave it to [protest leader] Johnny Minto to hand to him but I never heard from him.”

“He was actually a bit of a stooge for the West. All the hard-line guys over there who wanted more of a revolution and change, they were all killed – Steve Biko and all them, they just got dispatched. They left Mandela alive because they realised when it got too tough for them to hang on to their regime they bailed out and said ‘you take it’. They knew he was the soft option. He’s developed into the world statesman. But in terms of poverty and the slums, nothing’s changed… except you’ve got a small elite set of black people who’ve made themselves very wealthy.”

Note the extremely pompous arrogance in the second last paragraph where he states: “I actually wrote a note saying that I really would like to meet him, but I wasn’t going to meet him under those circumstances and that I had some disagreements with his policies.”

Just because he flew a plane dropping flour bombs on his own people he has the RIGHT to decide under which and what circuimstances HE IS GOING TO MEET WITH ANOTHER COUNTRIES PRESIDENT.

Also that act now make him a political expert to such an extend that he could tell the president of a country he have never visited how he should run his own country.

Note the last paragraph in which Marx Jones states between the lines that he wanted MORE OF REVOLUTION in South Africa.

What exactly would satisfy him? More killing of farmers and white people; more of Zimbabwe?

In the last sentence he states: ” But in terms of poverty and the slums, nothing’s changed… except you’ve got a small elite set of black people who’ve made themselves very wealthy.”

Clearly an attempt to critize the ANC goverment but I would like to hear how he wants so change the poverty in the “slumps”.

South Africa has a complicated history and there are a lot of serious minded people (black and white) who were and still are working very hard to create stability and a peaceful living environment. Unfortunately, dropping random verbal abuses like flour bombs from higher ground -a position of self-imposed moral supremacy- does not mean that you actually understand the issues in South Africa.

Ray Mordt also scored three tries in that match. Here is a clip of Mordts three tries:

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