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f ig h t . .Salisbury, Friday.

W HA w o u 1 d happen should the White man, by

some remote chance, step out f . , the Picture in Centra] Africa? The influential Native newspaper, the “ African Daily ISews, poses and answers the question in a leading article.

There can be 110 doubt what­ever,” it says, "that (Black) lationalism would fall apart and ive way to the stronger forces t traditional tribalism, from which

.he present generation of Africans , /s by no means free.

I DISINTEGRATION/ , In tliat event each tribe would

try to assert itself over all others and one of two things might hap-

r comPlete disintegration of the present united front, with each tribe going its own way (as they were found to be by the Europeans in 1890), or the strong­est tribe reducing all others to subjection, as the Ndebeles did before the Europeans came into this country.a ' '™ baIif among Africans is as rife as the colour bar. The onlv reason it has not exercised the mmds of thinking people is that ic has been overshadowed bv theWh!ttrproblemf * * ^ "erSUa

“ Although we hear a great deal of the unity of the Black man ^gainst the overlordship of the Vhite man, we know only too well hat underneath the surface the

jfncans are far from being

CONGO VENGEANCE“ The only reason why there Is

sc ne semblance of community of,er?„S,Ls among them is because tii; White man treats all Black

Pf }ple the same.’’The way in which the Congo

rl ts were put down illustrates the ex ,ent of tribalism.

’he Bakongo tribe were the m in offenders In the riots. Apart fn m a minority of European tr ops it was the Native police ar|d soldiers — mostly Bangala

Ibesmen—who put the uprising iwn with a vengeance (and, as is been whispered since in the >ngo, taking advantage of the

sjtuation to settle old scores).Should the Congo be handed rer lock, stock and barrel think- ig Natives believe it would be wcelled up into tribal “ states

nobody’s benefit.

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1 ALEXANDEi^SUEERISE- 61,(ffi0FEWER PEOPLE

m A X -S p A fT m )IrkVERCROW DED A L I ^ ^ S l i T • rT)'S 7 ^ ,, p ,

j l a s t n i f r l u .

li The cen su s sh o w s th a t o n ly one- | f i f t h o f th e w o rk in g p o p u la tio n is j e m p lo yed in th e n o r th e rn a r e a o f j J o h a n n e sb u rg — a total o f 5 ,2 16 . •

The tnt.aj 0f Native men, women

8L QQI). a a a a a re u w itn tn e e stim a te o f 148,Ouu. T h e r e a re h.1«A U'rww*

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Of the 87,000 Natives, 25 len workers, of whom 5,653 are ingle.Their places of work are:

ohannesburg, jiaafl; northern ohannesburg (Peri-Urban area),

IJJ&n' Germiston, 2,314: Edenvale., empton Park, Modderfontein

I f ei on? ’ Boksburg, Benoni and sedford View. 500,Mr. C. W. Prinsloo, of the

'epartment of Native Affairs, who gave these figures to The Star said another surprising fact which emerges from the census is that there are about 20,0.00 ._wnrkf r« jn the area of the Peri-Uvban Board Co the north of Johannesburg of whom mflOf), are domestic ser-,1 vants living where they work 1kersf t^ ,| .a0(il -non.-taildent wor- Kers, o,21b live in Alexandra, leaving nearly 5,000 who must squatters in the area.

TjjfSg Jilfiflftje, said Mr. Prinsli would have to be accounted for a/d moved to Alexandra Towns

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THE STAR JOHANNESBURG

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From Our CorrespondentCape Town, Friday.

r p o KEEP W HITE SCHOOLS W HITE Cape school principals are h °ld," « 1,1 ll»e,J off^ 1 “ Star Chamber ” examinations of children suspected of having Coloured b o .

■ - !m. It is unpleasant and humiliating hut it has

difficult to assess j too much—too much of the tragicIt is

i ' _ _ ----------* inquisition is part of the Cape school systemI ibeen going on for years.

X found out that most principals view with distaste their duty of < tearing all admissions for colour s,nd are hoping that the Popula- ion Register will provide them

’ vith an unambiguous criterion for Admission.' But they are puzzled by i official Education Department

policy, which appears to be that possession of White identity cards by both parents is not necessarily proof that a child is of White parentage or extrac­tion.

ITragic picture

Most of my inquiries gave me a picture of tragedy. One 13-year- r old bov was called out from hij class to the headmaster’s studyl

\ .there to be examined covertly V )teshamedly—his eyes, his hair, his \skin.

\ Then the boy and his mother.' jected by the school nearest t h p f

me. went from Camps Bays to i Sjjzenberg seeking admissitjjr to a

accurately the full extent of the tragedy. Nobody appears to know how many children are excluded from White Peninsula schools on the grounds of colour every year. Some principals say they have

one or two cases a year, others have half-a-dozen a year and one headmaster said he had turned away more than 20 “suspects” this year.

Mr. C. de Kock Fowler (secre­tary of the Cape School Board) is not talkative on colour.

"I am like an oyster,” he ad­mitted theother day. “I have seen

side."No, I cannot tell you how many

cases we deal with a year. We do not keep records. But I can tell you that 1 have dealt with hun­dreds of cases in the past 25 years."

And only a small proportion of cases attended to by a school principal or school committee go as far as the School Board.The school principal is required

to scrutinize his pupils by the regulations of the Superintendent- General of Education, framed under the Education Ordinance.

"It sliall be the duty of the principal teacher ancl committee | o) any school set apart tor pupils ' ot European parentage or extrac­tion to satisjy themselves that the school is being attended by such pupils, and the committee shall exclude from the school any pupils which it considers not to be o) European parentage or extraction."A school principal ip the south­

ern suburbs, whose approach appears to be general said: "This is how I go about this most ticklish and unpleasant subject.

-I have to satisfy myself that al my pupils are of European extrac tion. I judge more or less oi appearance. If a child and th parent who accompanies the chili to school appear to be White accept the child. I haven't th time to interview grandparent and aunts and uncles.When in doubt. . .

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“If a child is obviously of mixe< parentage I refuse admission. Bu when I am in doubt I refer th' case to my school committee an< the committee will interview th ihild and both parents.

"The school committee has th] •ight to demand proof of Eure jean extraction. Birth certificate need to be supported by state| ments by people of standing the community that the child a parents are normally accepted as Europeans."

If a school committee refuses a child the parents may appeal to the School Board, from thento the Superintendent-Generaof Education and from him tc the Supreme Court.But in most cases the parents

do not fight the issue beyond the principal and school committeestages. .

Only three cases involving ad­mission of a “suspect” child to a European school have come befoi e i the courts in this country.

Most children are refused ad­mission when going to school for the first time.

But many, after cheating the White man’s law through the primary standards, find the White way closed at a high school. Per­haps the principal is a fierce "pure-whiU^t” or perhaps he is more mindful of the susceptibili­ties of his committee a n c l parents than the primary schooJ boss.

perhaps he is vterely more, alert. Or perhaps he has re­ceived a poison-pen letter saying. ••Johnny Smith has colour in hisiamily ■ ■ ■"Most school heads agree that if the parents of a child can each produce White identity cards that should be the end of the matter.But it has happened that prin­

cipals and committees have been faced bv parents threatening Co remove ” their children unless certain child is removed from tsch o o l. , . 7

Anri <?r> often, the child

LU SA K A . F riday __d ,> four, the Lusaka ^ Slx vote

p^reed vcster,a v fha^ h (C0Uncifor Natives ib l.M * Passesfrom May 1 Thi n. abo,lshec warv suspension nf Se,nt te «P I

fwm continue until then"'® PaSSef

said heUhad °nevwr aerP ? u!sf01'd [Suspension of nieht « to th< i the first s L S passps- Sinceconditions had •■00k p,ace Northern Rhoripcio j 0rated in

,b« n an increase in the6**" .had ' wave. in the crime-

K- Mitc^U , 'very w ill gej,

Possible to enforrePaaSS*S Were im' 1! unnecessary “ itanl Were a4

“ The Pxnpri0„ „

FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1959.

THIS ONE IS EASYnO U TH AFRICA has manyO problems which, in thep x u u i c i l i o ---

j peculiar circumstances of hur present situation, must iiecessarily be shelved; they /must wait for some measure

If of agreement on fundamentals.P But there is no excuse what- i ever for not getting to grips

with the p r o b l e m s created by periodic visits to South Africa of distinguished non- Europeans.

Not only are some important visitors offended, but all those who have to do with them are embarrassed; and there is good reason to believe that many government officials and even party supporters are unhappy about it all.

Is there to be no answer to this problem except through a process of veductio oxi 1 absurdum ? Must people make prize asses of themselves on countless occasions before the Government wakes up to the necessity of deciding some­thing and doing something .

Or does the Government fear that the edifice of apartheid is so frail that it might be upset even by the few small concessions and allowances that would be required to make a Coloured visitor feel

(that he is not shunned and despised ?

Mr. Eric Louw, the Minister " of External Affairs, has to

deal with large numbers of non-European diplomats and o f f i c i a l s when he travels abroad. What does he think about all this ? Is he perfectly I satisfied? He would be hard put to it to find among his j

sheaves of newspaper cuttings f any report of a speech inf which he dealt at all ad e-J quately with the subject. I

Another Minister, Mr. P. M K. le Roux, has said neithe “yea” or “nay” to reports ths I he objected to the presence c f an American negro joumalii t at an American diplomat c party. It is safe to assuir e that he did, in fact objec : and that he was given th ; only possible reply: that th$ Coloured person concerned was^ an American citizen.

If this is not already the reductio ad absurdum, heaven help us if worse is still to come!

No-one expects Mr. Le Roux or his colleagues in the Cabinet to shed what they conceive to be their principles, but they are expected, even among theiri own supporters, to behave in qf civil way in civil surrounding/

aid^ s S ocaPROBE WILL START SOON

Plan will be built on fact-finders’ report

From Our United States RepresentativeNew York, Friday.

4 MERICA IS SENDING A MISSION to parts of Africa A lying south of the Sahara to begin gathering facts on which to base long-term aid to countries there that,seek help. This became known this week as Mr. D o u g l a s Dillon, Unde - Secretan of State for Economic Affairs, t a l k e d about Russia * •‘ resourceful drive to penetrate, and eventually capture, the newlv developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America through trade and aid techniques.

Headed by Dr. J. G. Harrar, food g expert o£ the Rockefeller Founda­tion. the mission will spend five weeks visiting territories, reports the “New York Times."

The id e a is that A m e r i c a n science and technology may bi able to render services to thesj countries, the newspaper says.

The United States has no terr: torial and only limited economi interests in these countries, but it has an enormous stake in then future political orientation. It does not want them to fall under Com­munist domination.

Dr Harrar will be accompanied by Dr John Weir, a public health expert of the Rockefeller founda­tion, and Dr. John McKelvy of the Rockefeller grant-dispensing office. They are working with the National Academy of Science and are under contract to the State Department foreign aid branch.

RESENTED INTERFERENCE The newspaper says that Ameri­

can aid for African territories south of the Sahara has been limited hitherto by European Countries, which resented intei-

i ference in their domains.\ B r i t i s h - r u l e d territories have,1 however, generally been an excep-

' I tion, and some port development I and educational projects were earned out between 1950 and 1952 with Marshall Flan funds.

Aid to Liberia began m 1941 when the United States began building air bases there and aid to Abyssinia and Libya began in1942. .,

At present most A m e r i c a n aid to Africa is concentrated in Tunisia, Morocco and Libya. Coun- I tries to the south r e c e iv e d only \teehnical assistance mostly

riculture and education

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Negro is head of T n ^ t

NEW YORK, Friday. — The appointment of a Negro, Mr. O m et^J^rter^as chairman of Be New York State Commission

igainst Discrimination has been [announced here.

He Is the first Negro to be appointed head of the Anti- Discrimination Agency of which he has been a member since 1945.

The agency was set up to com- Dat on a state-wide basis discrim­ination in housing, employment and other social fields.

Mr. Carter, who is 68, is a former college professor and a city administrative official.

His appointment was announced by the state governor, Mr. Nelson Rockefeller.—Sapa.

Native studies in America

A Native assistant of the National Institute for Personnel Research, regarded as an authority n the field of Native personnel nanagement, is at present in the Jnited States, at a university in Illinois, doing specialized study mder the direction of Prof. M. Herskowitz.

He is Mr. Albert Masileala, and le holds an honours degree in psychology. He is a graduate of ?ort Hare and the University of 3outh Africa.

He is also a qualified teachei md has undertaken a number o: iurveys for industry on the Nativi Worker’s approach to his job.

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quttiiuiy surveyo|6* lor schools^BbAjU^ej

v v,ali-girisi Regarding the “ call - girl „racket for the improvem ent^I

VaderUnd'” repots t h a t j .P a u l

r ^ - ^ s t r M r sS . ™ ™ " < » » - « « * • »” >™

r : , i . » - • “ ■ H°f such *"™ encalvin.s theology How does C a lv in j t ib leWhich exemplifies tr^ Igrace, among oth i sucb an Imgs, s are< y ^ V S f l kinference? i f * J t lk a iitX or 1

Mr Min« f v J 5 some h^rsh'dominee will h chairman|things to say to tne «- ,0{ the SRkekamei R ^ »

The inference a P ^ ^ squite unwarranted^^Echton’

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T O 1 RE:UN4 BLE :s i s t -COURT-GOVERNOR

r Correspondent

Washington, Friday. OUTHERN RESISTANCE to the deseirega- tion of Airieriean schools is beginning to

crumble.For nearly five years the State Govern-

m en to f Virginia has been foremost in seeking ways of circumventing the Supreme Court’s order that all schools must be multi-racial.On Monday, however, six schools in the city o

Norfolk will reopen on an integrated basis. The decisioi came yesterday, only 24 hours after the Governor o Virginia, \lr. J. Lindsay Almond, had lold the Statt legislature that he and they were powerless to dela further the opening of racially mixed schools.

But after a ruling by a fede- nesday night was replete with tileral judge in Baltimore two tT J 'J Ule Slltpre,me. B . . has become a staple of Souther ip untie schools at Charlottes- j oratory. There are still those inville, Virginia, will r e o p e n j Virginia who would want to see jnext week for white pupils the s,ate — literally, i|, .... , . • necessary—to keep Negroes out ofonly. thus the issue is still white schools.confused. i in his extremity, Mr. Almonl

Governor Almond promised. ^as returned to a scheme propose}however, ,o all 1,1, ■■ ,o | S £ J S > i ° f i S V t " "keep the peace and good order ” 1 resistance." when the first Negro children j enter White schools next week. Subsidy plan

He plainly does not intend to lead his state into the defiance explored by his colleague, Mr. Faubus of Arkansas, and he asked only that the Federal Government should "now keep out of our local problems, which it has created.”

Court abused

It was in Virginia that the slogan and strategy of " massive resistance ” were first devised. Even the states of the Deep South have looked to the old dominion for leadership in their struggle for racial segregation, as part of the “ Southern way of life.”

The Governor’s speech on Wed-

He has submitted legislatioi under which parents could obta: tuition grants of up to 250 dollars' (about £91) a year from the state government to pay for alternative schooling if they could satisfy local authorities that they had good grounds for refusing to allow their children to attend a dese­gregated school.

Meanwhile, in a move to engage the power of Congress in support of the federal courts, a bipartisan group in the Senate has intro­duced a new Civil Rights Bill. Its emphasis, unlike that of the last one. lies on facilitating the dese­gregation of the schools, rather than on safeguarding the Negro’d right to vote.

As such, it will encounter unj- shakable Southern opposition, -j- "The Times” News Service.

★ The schools in Charlottesvilli and Norfolk were closed defiance of Supreme Court ordei s to intec/rate last September. A have since been ordered to reope

tThc S t a rFRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1959

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Authoritarian pattern

MR. H. G. LAWRENCE re­called in the Assembly

yesterday that Dr. Hertzog, tht Minister of Posts and Tele­graphs, had once described democracy as the lowest fornr of barbarism. While it would be unfair even to the Cabinet to describe Dr. Hertzog as true interpreter of their collec tive views, there is precious little sign In the pattern of the Government’? actions to suggest any greater devotion to democracy than is implied by the use of some of its outward forms to retain power.

With the session only a few days old we have already had two outstanding examples of the authoritarian attitud : which has become even m or; characteristic of the regime c f Dr. Verwoerd than it was ( f his predecessors.

Even Mr. Strijdom, ardent republican though he was, affirmed categorically that h : would not bring about a re • public in South Africa unlesi he were assured of a sufficien t majority to ensure its stability,He refused to say what h< meant by a “ sufficierf I majority,” but the implication was clearly that he had ii mind something more than handful of votes in a millio i tend a half.\ Dr. Verwoerd does not evejn

bstain this degree of respec >r his political opponents or him, we are now told,

t are majority will be enough- rovided he believes the re

1 ublic will be stable.This is the mark of the auto­

crat—this assumption of thd /right to decide what is good for / others, whatever the views of / those others may be.

The same arrogance lies be­hind the abolition of the |

\ Natives’ Representatives. The \ Government have decided tha< I I the Native people will be bettei [ t

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- unese dialects claims still more__about 2Qff °-11-* '6n a t i v e s n e a k e r s R u t . a . d l , o l l t - 9 0 - m i l J i o n

whose mother tongue i' F* I* |°n, t0 ^ 230-million peopleo ' W l e ill r e r lhe A w h H " ^ ° for less fluency for tile sake o f it aCf|" Ire. If wltJl more value. ' ke o f lts commercial or cultural

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r Erse, 1S one of the still living ! sider™ Hil0” apPoilUed to con Celtic languages. In the eighteenth I j national language pro-century it was the vernacular of is U ie^nii ^ P°rted that hD the lural population in Ireland L f th educational mediurrand was spoken by the men of thn 1 country. Hindi, however i<Insh Brigade in the American I r fn tfT «gn t0 the Maratha and War of Independence in 1 7 7 5 . Dur- 1 Jalatl as is English.War of t j tJle America!

th Intdependence in 1775. Dur-Irfsh f o r h U g g ° f the Southernw e r e m a d P ° t g r e a t e f f o r t sw e ie m a d e t o r e t a in a n d e x t e n dt h e u s e o f E r s e . Daniel o w

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fin?1]11? EngUsh is still the of­ficial language of India and is used m the legislature andT h o , ^ r rnment Publications. Though many Indians wouldf rfai ? 6 Hindi as the of­ficial language, the medium ofcommunication between edu-

,I“ d,ians is English and seems likely to remain so

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& U '" ^ u b “ ™ ^ V d f i l N ,AfnCa- English has become££:arc i -aSr rif th lT n UJ h todav « a *ze £ ! ^ tei Sit both in Amharic and nit ^ Kare t0 have m v opportu- EngJlsh and the ' Official Journal“ ities beyond a very small circle pnnted in both languages After

1 : s faet of :?ine ™of the oldest livins State schools are taus-ht inI S m ? U1 1Eur,)pe ™d has a English- because although theEmtimes tha tfaC lg back t0 remoter 1 per“ '’ Haile Selassie, has a natura'extent a ry modem tongue f°ndness for Amharic. he know

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are still demands for home ml S S S L - 1 - • noted that .or Wales, but if it were granted :ven the most fanatical Welsh lationahsts would hardly try to

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l* h century, Gaelic was used solely or partially in the pubhc services of about 180 out of aisanrf ----------- a. ux d

Northern Nigeria he v shed “feTon i r ° , 0l,and Ustened alesson in English •• and the nrn-l” st1Cpfrnrnh T S perfect- the smal­lest eiroi being corrected."

\ ND “Onze Jan” Hofmevr tho v,-.ti )U?vd5 the Afrikaner Bond“.

w ro te th a t h e w o u ld e x c h a n g e

th b lou o u t ° f a “ t e l i e c t f i a T t r e L u m t o w h ic h m y

f c o f S r W ™ in th e k e y f ° ‘ E? glish g iv e s th e t J i a v r a f h v ” S c o tla n d 1 ' T a m a b e tte r m an — I g0aid t h f ^ V s c o n fln ed to S k v e h • 1 am a b e tte r A fr ik a n e r —

f m t h O u te r Is le s: a n d h e re b e ca u se a s w ell a s D u tc h I a lso * h o m e ru le fo r S c o tla n d [ k n o w E n g lis h .” a lso

n o t re s u lt in a n o tto .,,.,* I T h e B rit is h)uld not result in an attempt Tlle British Empire mav

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and L Pn? P 6S may be cherished, ana kept alive, though to thp in dividual they canno offer the'S S L f r x * «SS £

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PANADA has two officialL a f th f !a S ngliSh and French

Cens,us ab°ut 67per cent nf thV . , a ao°ut 67 01 one of the major lanf e » r H , « ? s a s s - A a - s f s « g £

En^iuh ,understandable that the reason b,e disliked by

a Cbaa'ctv l?U?h 0f Ule literature of France- et the more ambitious French’ Canadians make a point of on

Vq Theg , a knowledge of EnglishL a n t FherehhEmpire ‘s vanish-I ana there have hrm u Jtruggles between the British 5 g^e peoples demanding self-rule % t the patriots who f i n a l ly ^ ' c^ d ed jn freeing their people dki

rM; n„ ue aisiiKed byleason of past political domina­tion or social arrogance. But, to dis- ^urage the ,earning of the Eng.cu ting nfUfa g 6 -°n that groi,nd is cutting off one’s nose to spite one s

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Natives^B R I T S . f'riaayl—Two Natives,

Pios Goabane and Joseph Koloi were yesterday fined £25 lor two months) when they were found guilty in ihe Brits Magistrate’s Court of being in control of a school not registered with the Bantu Education authorities.

The sentence was suspended I pending an appeal.\ Johannes Kriel. inspector of I Bantu Education at Warmbad.

said that on August 18 last year he visited the farm Klipgat and found two people before two groups of pupils under some trees.

NO REGISTERSNeither of them could produce

. egisters of the school. There wereno registers. .

j Mr. W S. van der Merwe Giani, /administrative officer of Bantu, /Education in Pretoria, said that I he dealt with all applications for I the registration of Bantu schools |i In the region. No application for I! registration had been rece ive^ ,

from the two accused.—Sapa.

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'»• 8cl. an hour. ' ^ar™ S «« m uch a8 2 ». 6d. ft

i „ J ,h ,:y w e re p r e s e n t, w ith r e m e - » e n ta tiv es o f o th e r t ra d e u n fo n s

f iv p 0 i P y e r o r g a n is a t io n s to I f L a b o n ,e>nCf ^ ef01'e th e M in is te r

pohannesburgndUStl'ial TribUna] in

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p o ts ar»d p a n s R p n r *e s a n d c u p b o a rd s . ’R e p r e s e n ta t iv e s o f th e Y s t e r

th e e n g in e e r in g S t r y . h ° m e “ h e y a sk e d t h a t a w h o le lis t o f

be re s e rv e d fo r W h ite s .

J R D A Y , JA N U A R Y 31, 1959.

Tribal rulesystem will be complete soon

OWN CORRESPONDENT

AB(,LI 13(1 F.rillaJ- Ithe BaiUu aiiilm ritv eyctrill *"'" Q,,

^■).ahll ^ e(l aiK1 sh o » ^ ~ ^ — T |S|lt!«

»J tion and Development. Adnumstra-

, I thrhe„ P?H°Vef nment now Cresset V ne, need for a fully-workint \ system of Bantu authorities to bl

H e n r ^ r f When the Nativesf f f i S “ Pi,lla" " m •«

S B m j g" ii , w irtU»The establishment of Bantu

authorities had been virtuallvCismkelet^ in, the Transkei ^ Ciskei. Great progress had been

the North^WFree Sta^e " ° ape and the

Speed upAlthough Natal and Western

Tiansvaal did not make such rapidfrom eSt h « P tltle beginninS. reportstha? S T i 3reas indicated that the tempo has increasedtremendously during the pastthree months. past

— , >.a ^ u c u m a t a b ack lo g

,e wiPed-out jn Natal “in a latter of months.”

. P??.e , the basic authorities were' £ ™ n t? 6 ^ W£lS 110t difficUlt tO, g oup them into regional and ulti-J Storttles ” «•-“a\^horities.

Ule o u w Reuter.

M Q E K

tCAPE TOWN, Friday.—A Bill ould be ready soon to provide jjr the further development of

tative areas where the inhabi- ants would be gradually given a reater measure of self-govem- lent. the Minister of Bantu administration and Development, Ir. De Wet Nel, informed the

south African Assembly to-day.The Minister, who was taking

jart in the debate on the motion >f no confidence in the Govern- nent, introduced by the Leader

F O BA

ot the Opposition, said the Afri­cans would be divided into ethnic units.

There would be five to Degin with and each of these units would get more and more self-govern­ment,' which was the only thing :hat would satisfy them

In each of these units the Gov-

ernment would have a represen­tative with more or less the status which the British High Commis­sioner had in the Protectorates.

The main task of these repre­sentatives would be to develop the areas where they were stationed as rapidly as possible.

Attention would be paid to the training of the youth to serve their own people. Racial animosity was created if members oi one

[race had to work for members of I another. — SAPA.

)

66 ,0 0 0 toomany in

AlexandraStaff Reporter

A PO/ULATION survey of AlPv

te ^ kI to reduce1 The ° { the p la n i to w n sh ip to 3noon ° ” ° f th e capacity ° '000 P e o p le - its

|in°the Township are W°''king men

mu b f L ™ hlt''

lesshthanProuehn iSHnear)y 50-0°0h a v e been m ad e in

I MOST in JOHANNESBURG

9-000 Coloured oV a^i f friCans and n u m b e r 19 ssg 5' P a m il>es

= ¥ » o f Z ^ 25'559sin g le . g ' '®53 o f th e m

J o h a n n e s b u rg 5 fn J 01* ed in a n d 2-314 in G e rm fs to n R a n d

i n i

Lt

M

,-JOUR ‘EXPLOITED’

I workers o f to-day were at th - ... *

^ Pretoria yesterday.The document, read by Mr 7

C. van Niekerk, Q.c. c h ie f rim fessional assistant to the Attorney! ° e" erf 1' spo^e about the exploita- , j°n of the workers and described the class struggle between workersanT h p m r fl0 y e r s ’ S A P A r e P o r t s . n J I document said that only the working class could build a happy South Africa free from unemployment, insecurity, poverty ancl racial hatred.

Earlier, Detective-Sergeant A. jifnriSer’ ° f the fe c ia l Branch under cross-examination by Mr’A fr £ n h o ’ Q C > said the South manv Peace Council sent outwars Thi r ending colonial wars. Their circulars were sent to newspapers throughout the coun-

pe a c e c a l lMr. Fischer: That was one

?Lpes of conduct under 3 the Peace Council; to

Perpetuate the call for the end­ing of wars?—Yes.it Trf6re was nothing private aboutrnihu«hV S ,S t0 newspapers and published in speeches?—Yes, that *s so.

Kruger agreed thatm /n f . period of the indict-195B thB°m r 952 10 the end Of 1956, thg police had carried outEnumerable'’ searches on m

dividuals and organisations.SMALL PROPORTION

Mr. Fischer: It would be fa; to say that of the great numb

Hof documents taken in poll trches, only a very small nr

i n r t « W lu ® t o t a l h a d b e s Plav fh J r court?—I cannit mm hi , many cases large rere taken ^ ° f d°CUme

ri-

Apart from the number of copies ■ very large number of doci-

fents were taken in searches End ot used?—A large number.

was adJ°umed un,►-morrow.

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DURBAN, Wednesday .— The first aim o f the P ro! gressive Group would be to extend to the non-W hites i

growing measure o f participation in Western civilisation This ideal sprang from a frank recognition that Westei civilisation in South Africa ■wj

This was the theme of a speec by Mr. Leo Boyd, former Uni Party M.E.C., at the first publ : meeting of the Progressives i i Natal.

The meeting was organised t. > allow the group to present thei1 thoughts publicly and to registe members before a party wi formed.

Mr. Boyd said that the funda­mentally Democratic character of Western civilisation had become the very foundation of “our exis­tence in South Africa.”

It was regarded as the best and only acceptable way of life and the deep concern of the group of Progressives would be to see it retained.

RACE DIRECTION

This could not be done by con­tinuing in the direction of racial exclusiveness that to a large

was to-day the policy of the National and United Parties.

He continued: “If we do not extend to our non-European fellow-countrymen the benefits, the privileges and the responsibili­ties of our way of life then as surely as night follows day these things will be lost to us.”

This would not mean the end of White leadership — if would in ’act amount to the beginning of ■eal White leadership. What had nded in Africa was the era of Vhite domination.The day when Whites could

overn the non-Whites without egard to their own views (those f the non-Whites) and wishes,?as almost at an end.This did not imply that the

luthority and power hitherto xercised had to be handed over ,o the non-White.

The task ahead in Africa was mmense and a solution would lemand from the Whites their

umulated experience of Africa, iir civilisation and their skills

in various fields, said Mr. Boyd.—SAPA.

(News by C. J. Uys, 12 Devonshire Place, Durban.)

as the peoplemgyp

S tall Reporter/'T'HE population of

Africa’s most congested slum 1.— Alexandra Township — is \Steadily being thinned out.

According to an official of the peri-urban Areas Health Board in Pretoria, gang warfare and serious crime—once a permanent feature of township life—has been dras- Itically reduced In the past six months.

Sr) fgr- 11 ,ftOn P^lClP have mewed voluntarily from the township to fiSeadowlands ana JJiepffloof.

HEALTHIER

Within five years it Is hoped that the population, which at ona t i ip e .ja t a i le c u p b p ^ . p q m _ w iit have been reduced to a target figure of 35,000.

W ffllth sftpn/larri.<; in th p t o w n ­ship have also noticeably nSen since the Peri-urban Board took over control of the township in February this year.

Sinnr innrp t h a n 7 40,000ons of ash and trash have been

1 emoved from the once squalid 1 ad filthy streets.

Rlpnt.rifji lipht.intr------b a a ------b e e ni istaUed in most streets, and this1 as been a powerful factor in cjrime prevention.

p.fl.nals have been

The Board is also busy the first complete census ol f

.bitants of the township ,so made.

TIGHTE LOCATI

MUN|

r P H E Government has taken fuitherfstejls rt> prevei/t W hites from entering[j African townships and locations to address or attend political meetings.

-----■ " i . — Municipal Non-European AffairsDepartment managers have been told that no White person should , be allowed to enter an African | area except on " legitimate bus: ness.”

A circular from the Departmer of Bantu Administration anfl Development to managers municipal Non-European Affaii|Departments says:

“Even where send grounds

iBOuld be exercised, and at ~the | least suspicion that propaganda of a racial or political nature may be spread, such applications should be refused.”

MUST STOPThe circular says that local

I authorities have recen |j permission, in ieTrri'ToTlhe Urban (Areas Act, to Whites to hold or laddress township meetings at twhich speeches of a “ seditious and Subversive nature ” were made. This must stop, the circular ■dvises.Other points made in the cir­

cular are:P-ersons making.

lad permission to be m the loca- ions, and were also given per- nission to hold or address meet- ngs;

Thefrighly undesirahlp that ijTtiUai.

‘e aJlUWri should be given the op­portunity of carrying activities in locations.

on theireir/

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