SABRA HOLD TALKS WITH

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SOUTHERN EDITION Thursday , Janu ary 29, 1959

P EMISEScans in recent weeks have alsomet Africanists.

That in itself is not unex­pected as the professors saythey want to hear the fullrange of African views and.though the Africanists are alunatic fringe. they do haveviews.

But what is staggering is theplace where the meeting be­tween Africanists and theSABRA men was held: ON'tHE PR.EMISES OF THEUNITED STATES INFOR­MATION SERVICE IN JO­HANNESBURGl

The United States Em bassy isthese days very conscious of thecriticism levelled at them-eriti­cism initia ted by New Age articles- tha t while the United Statespays lip-service to the principles ofrace equality, the Embassy in theUn ion operates a colour bar .

No Non-Europeans are invitedto Embassy funct ions and it isdoubtful if Ambassador Byroadeor his predecessors has ever meta Non-European leader-thouj!bsome U.S. In form ation Service 'and Consular 6fficlats numberamong their duties the job of

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u.s.A RICANISTS ON

From Ruth First

JOHANNESBURG.TI:IE SABRA professors who

have been holding unoffi­cial talks with leading Afri-

AFRICANWOMENFIGHTPASSES- pa g e 3

IN THE SPUTNIK AGE: A cardboard box in a bicycle carrier is the best transport that could bemanaged to get this little Indian girl to school last w~ek. She is one of the Indian tots i.n the !Uadeclasses who has to walk over a mile from her home IR Newdare to the school the Indian children

have been allocated to in Sophiatown.

SA"I C CondemnsRemoval of

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Canning workers (rom H. Jo nes & CI;). after their zelease from iail.

JOHANNESBURG.()NE THOUSAND FIVE

HUNDRED INDIANS C H 0 0 L CHILDREN,SOME ONLY SIX YEARSOLD, ARE BEING USEDBY THE AUTHORITIES ASHOSTAGES TO FORCE DURBAN.THE INDIAN PEOPLE TOACCEPT LENZ AS THEIR "THE. .announcement by !h.e

Minister of Bantu Adrnini-GROUP AREA. stration, M r. De Wet Nel, that

Where once there was only one legislation would be int roducedschool at L~nz, there are now during the fo rthcoming session ofth ree, one high school an~ two Parli ament to remove the existingprimary, an d ab (;mt 1,500 children African rep resentatives amplyare bem~ forced to travel ~s much justifies our prediction, made soonas 40 miles a day to their class- after the last elect ion, that thererooms. would be an annih ilation of exist-

NO WARNING ing parl iam entar y rights of theTh is school year the axe has Non-White peoples with th e re­

fallen on Indian children in Joh an- election of the Nationalists," saidnesburg's Western Areas. Sudden- Dr. G . M. Naicker, President ofly , without an y warning children the South African Indian Con­in standards two to five have been gress, in an exclusive interviewsent to Lenasia, and small grades with New Age .children from the Newclarc Co-lou red School have been trans- Condemning the move as con­ferred to a Sophiatown school , trary to all democratic concepts,for some a distance of two miles Dr. Naicker said th at even thoughfrom their homes. the nature- of the existing repre-

The moves have been carried sentation was limited to the com­out without the knowledge or con- munal roll, the denial of even thissent of the Indian parents. limited represen tati on would leave

One principal was telephoned the Af rican people completely(Continued on page 6) voiceless.

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them out to me."M y letter was dated De cem­

ber 5. 1958. When by the middleof Janua ry it ha d no t been pu b­lished in " Post," I ap proachedthe Cape Town office of " Post"for an explanation. I was toldit had been decided in the Jo­hannesburg office that my lettershould not be published. No ex­planation was given.

Is " Post" afraid of the truth?If not. why have they refusedto publish my letter? Or evento send a formal acknowledg­ment of its receipt? What ethicalstandards does "Post" use when,after printing a ga rbled versionof what I said, it accuses me ofinaccuracy and then refuses toprint my reply?

I challenge "Post" to publishmy letter, or an explanation ' ofwhy it refuse'! to publi sh my let­ter. If "Post" continues to keepsilent on this point, it ean betaken as proof that it has nodefence to the charges I oriRinal.Iy brought against it.

BRIAN BUN1:ING

Ca pe T ow n.

CITY POST"THE TRUTH?

hDITORIAL

that on ly newspapers wh ich (a)have to appeal fo r funds to kee pgoing; and (b) print whateverpolitical organisations tell themto print . . . are the true vo iceof the people." I

" Fina lly, you say : "I con lentmvself with gently admoni shinghim to keen his fact separatedfrom his fiction if he ha s towrite about us ."

"Allow me to reply:"-I. I have not started a one­

man war against the Non-Whitenrcss, In my articles in New AgeT me rely pointed out that thereis no Non-White press to speakof in South Africa, and thatthose papers like Post which callthemselves Non-White papersare really the organs of bigbusiness and are not run (i.e,financed and controlled) by Non­Whites at all .

"2. Your statement about theline I take in New Age is fiction.not fact. I never said anythingof the sort.

"3 . Could you please informme. and your read ers, 0 f thcficli(ln~ T perpetrated about P ost ?T would be glad to make anycorrections if you wo uld point

DEFE 0 THE AFRICTHE proposed abo lition of the Africans' representatives in

Parli ament and the Provincial Council means simply this :that the African people are to be deprived of any say what­soever in the Government of the country..

There are many critics of the prese nt form of African repre­sentation who say it was useless anyway, that it achievednothing for the African people. and that its abolition will. forall pra ctical purposes, make no difference.

These critics miss the point. The purpose of the Govern­ment's legislation is, not to take from the African peoplesomething which they prize and val ue. but to indicate to themthat from now on they have no rights or representatives inParliament. they have no right to vote for or sit in Parliament- in fact, that Parliament is elected by and for Europeans onlyand the Africans must not think any part of it is for them. InVerwoerd's view. the White man must rule, the African obey.

At this time all anti-Nationalists-from the Unity Movementto the United Party-should be able to agree that the Govem­ment's Bill must be opposed. All who stand for an integratedsociety in which White and Black must share.' somemeasure, the same rilZhts and opportunities, must join handsto oppose the apartheiders, who hold that the Bla~ have noplace in White society and must be completely segregated­politicaDy, economically, socially and territorially.

We can argue abou our different conceptions of democracylater; at present we must unite to fight for the very right todemocracy itself.

In defending the right of the Africans' representatives toremain in Parliament. one is not defend ing the present formof representation or even the rights or policies of the present.incumbents of the African seats; one is defending the principlethat Parliament should be representative of all the peoples ofthis country. and that Africans should enjoy, on the samebas is as anybody else, the right to vote for and to sit inParliament.

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Those who say. as some boycotters are already saying: "Letthem take this dummy representation away," are today playingthe Government's game. They are surrendering the principleof no taxat ion without representation ; they are surrenderingthe right to direct participation in Go vernm ent. For howeverinadequate the present form of representation is, it at leastembodies the principle tha t the African has the right to votefor and be represented in Parliament. The way to get moreis not to surrender the little we have. but rather to clingtenaciously to it and fight all the time for the reforms orextensions we want.

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Beno ni.

When I read the letter printedin "New Age" (January 15thissue) signed "Ex-Secretary Sonsof Yo ung Afric a Branch" Ithought a t first th at there mu sthave been a printer's error. ForS.O .Y.A. stan ds fo r th e "Soci etyof Young Africa ."

After having perused the con­tents of the lett er, however. Irealised that the printer mightnot be at fault. The "Ex-Secre­tary Sons of Young AfricaBranch" does not or cannot give:> true account of the discussionsthat took place at the A.A.C.conference.

It is also obvious that he i~

inl' :l"lable of discussing the ideasof the organisation to which heonce belonged and has to resortto swearing at it.

JAMES MABUYA.Orlando.

["Ex-Secretary" wrote: "Nota sinele word was uttered as adi reCITve to launch the AA Cinto mass acti vity in the fut ure."Is th at not true?- E d.]

IS "G olden City Post" scaredto let its reade rs know that

it is not financed and controlledby Non-Euroneam, anrl there­fore has no right to call itself aNon-Euronean newspaper?

Is "Golden City Post" scaredto tell its readers that it!> pro­prietor is Mr. J. R. A. Bailey,heir to the Abe Bailey fortuneand a mining magnate in his ownri~ht? That Post is an organ ofbig business and not the voiceof the people?

When I wrote my recent arti­cles in New Age on the Non­European press. the "GoldenCity Post" columnist "Mr. Low­down" criticised th em in hiscolumn under the . heading"Come off it. Brian." Mr. Low­down maintained that my re­marks on "Post" were inaccu­rate.

I sent the following letter to"Post" in reply:"Dear Si r.

" In "our i<; <;ur of Decem her 5,you allege tha t I have "started anne-man war against the Non­White press."

"Yoll allege (T Quote) : "Hetakes the line in "New Age"

Z. K. STOFILE.

Pa yneville, Springs.

had the same foolish idea askedme: "Waar werk jy, kaffer ?" Ianswere d : "Ek werk nie , me­neer."

Policem an : "Waar is jou pas,jong, kaffer?"

Me: "Hier is die pas , me­neer."

After careful checking an d re­checking he handed it back tome an d looked- fu rious.

"Jy het my nou kwaad ge­maak, kaffer."

Me: "Hoe nou, meneer?"Consta ble : " L yk ek aa n jou

soos meneer of baa s?"Me: "Sorry. my baas."Constable (giving me a good

sma ck) : "Weet jy dat jy swartis kaffer? Swa rt soos die du iwelself?"

Me : "Ja, meneer ." Anothersmack from th is fr iend of thepeople until I didn't forget tosay "baas." So because I thoughta whi te man bos s, I couldn'treport this young hooligan.

The police sergeant said , "Ohwell, you know how youngch ildren a re. They get angryover nothing and do foolishthings."

I ask yo u, can a young childbe given such a responsible job?A J!Qliceman is supposed to pro­tect the peo ple, both white andblack.

know ledge th is week. ourtroub les wou ld be over.

But many of our readers,who can give and who shouldknow better, are shirking theirresponsibil ities.

It is to tho se readers that wea ppea l: GIVE US THEMONEY WE NEED . GIVEIT N OW AND GIVE IT RE­GULARLY .

Last Week's Donations:Special thanks to th at grand

old fighter, Rebecca. for the£25 given on the occasion ofher birthday . Many happy re­turns, Rebecca , and may youlong be with us to set an ex­ample of faith and courage inthe strug gle.

Johannesburg:Friend £5, J . £15, Band M

£10. D. £2. R .R. £4, Monthly£5, Collections £4.5, Greenside£2, Spring C lea ning £1.2, Vic(monthly) £5, Issy £ 12.10, Cecil£60, Fr iend £100 . I.J . £4. Mand M £5, Optician £ I , Sally£5, Hopeful £3, Cake Sale £1,N. £1.10 , Rebecca £25.

Cape Town:A.Tr 19s., V.P. 3.6d., Jewel

£2.2, L.L. £1, Unity £5, RandM £5, A.B. £25, B.H . £5, I.C .£2, N.M. £ 1.

Durban:M and M £5 .Grand Total: £~23 11s. 6d.

DAVID NEEDS STONES FORHIS SLING

THE opening ceremoniesover, the Nationa lists in

Parliament will now settledown to serious business. Somust we.

Their business is to makelaws to oppress, insult and hu­miliate the people of SouthAf rica. Our business is to ex­pose the full implications ofsuch laws, and to arouse thema xim um op position to them.

They have the colossal finan­cial resources of the State todepend on . We have nothinghut the loyalty and understand­ing of our readers ; the know­ledge that history and truthar c on our side.

Goliath facing David!With this difference, that

David needs not one, but manystone, for his sling . And eachstone in hard cash! And withthis further difference, thatDavid cannot stand alone.

New Age needs your supportand needs it urgently. If thegap between our donations andexpenditure continues at thepresent rate WE SHALL BEOUT OF ACTION WITHINTWO MONTHS.

Think that statement overcarefully, because we mean itseriously. We are not tryingto frighten you unnecessa rilyWe a re stating a fact.

Some of our rea ders playthe ga me regula rly. If, eachweek, we could acknowledgewhat we are p leased to ac-

When we were arrested lastNovember for holding an illegalmeeting we had the pleasure ofhaving another meeting in thecells with a European po lice ser­geant.

He was trying to tell us aboutthe losing battle the ANC wasfighting, why our demand for £1a day was foolish since we werea ll paying lower rents tha n theWhites. buying vegetables inPayneville Market at cheaperpr ices, and th at ou r taxes wereonl y a lous y £1.15 per annumcompared to thei rs of anythingfrom £20 to £60 a year.

This government was the best,he th o ught. and we h ave theS.A.P. to look after us. The po­lice were our friends and not ourenemies as we th in k.

So we asked th e sergeantto explain why is it that if thegovernment wasn't afraid of th eANC there was no freedom ofspeech . The cheaper vegetablesat Payneville Market were rejectsfrom the European market andtherefore 4th grade. And if thegovernmen t allo wed us to havethe same jo bs, and the samepay as th e whites, they couldab ol ish the poll-tax and wewould pay the " h igh" incometax.

As for th e po lice bein g ourfriends I related to him an inci­dent in wh ich I was involvedwhen I was 17 years old, andha4 the foolish idea that thewhite man was supenor,

A young policeman who also

WHY DO THE "PEOPLE'SFRIENDS" ASSAULT US?

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Mricanists Are TooLate

I sincerely and honestl y agreewith M r. K . of Natalspruit whensaying (New Age , December 25)th at th ose Af rican s who want topu t the Congress down are toolate.

The ANC is not a party but anational organisatio n.

The aims of the A.N .C. arebroad enough to include everyAfrican, simp ly becau se theA.N .C. see ks to unite all th eAfricans of every tribe and ofall levels of education and de­grees of culture in the gigantictask of win ning their f reedom asa people.

Hence, the A.N.C. claims tospeak for every African whetherChrist ian or Ath eist . F ascist orCommunist, Nationalist or Li­heralist. Among its members. areincluded all these categoriesmentioned above.

We need the unity of all Afri­can s to dest roy the dragon ofoppress ion . It is. th erefore. aduty to ourselves and to po s­terity. to gird our loins, to standup like men and women ofAfrica and to oppose thi s uglythi ng that is happening in SouthAfrica.

In the name of Africa!LUCAS BOTOLO.

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and Bus Boycott NowIn 4th Week

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BASUTOLANDCONFERENCE:CORRECTION

single item, Llebestraum, waswunderbar. It ha d everybodylisten ing.

.AFRICAN national ism, saidBill Gordo n, was running

over this con tinent like a burstdam. T he mighty flood neededto be directed in to the righ tchannels.

should be careful to choose theright leaders.

He didn't m ention what theright channels or lea ders were.

H AVI NG expressed in thepress his due shock at the

Windermere slums, this gent le­man. who is the editor of an all­Negro daily paper, left for Pre­toria, where he promised hewoul d visit that greatest touris tattraction of all - the treasontrial.

Crack of the evenlng: Mr.Gordon was introduced by Dr.van der Ross (rhymes withbras s) as " the editor of the At­lanta Daily Worker."

Pleasant journey, tovarisch!

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A num ber of residents' protestmeetings arc being held and theSouth We st townships a re nowawa iting the report of their fiveman deputa tion elected to see theauthorities and carry to them thepeople's grievances a nd demands.A th ree-m an committee of theANC, South West region, ha sbeen elected to stand by the Com ­mittee of Five.

In our report of the recent con ­ference of the Basu tol and Afri canCongress (New Age, January 8).we sta ted that a resolution waspassed calling for the bo ycott ofthe paper "Lentsoe la Basotho."

We are advised that the confer­ence did not call for a boycott,but passed a resolution read ingas follows :

'This conference ser io usly o b­jects to th e £2,000 an nua l subsidymade by the Basutoland Govern­ment to a certain newspapercalled 'Lentsoe la Basotho.' Theprinciple of subs idising a non­Basotho private enter prise for theexploitation of the Basotho isabhorred an d detested by thisconference. The Government j<;therefore called upon to withdrawthe subsidy immediately and un­conditionally."

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THE ot her night 1 had occa-sion to find myself in the

company of several local cele­brities, in the lantern-lit loungeof a nearby nightery. All thiswas in aid of listening to Neg rojournalist, Bill Gordon. deliverh imself of h is impressions of theda rk continent.

F lan ked by an eagle-eyedhomb re from the State Depart­ment and a gent described as a" political officer of the U.S. Em­bassy" Billy boy sa iled verycarefully in the middle a nd re­fused to 2et his feet wet.

"I am not here to say whatis right and what is wrong,"quoth he.

T he evening went off witheverything hunky-dory as fa r asthe Westerners were concerned.The jazz played by combosheaded by Messrs Georae Cusseland Morris Goldberl: and as­sisted by trumpet-man BanziBangan i was supposed to havebeen jazz as played in S.A. In­stead it sounded just like jazz asit is played "back home" in theU.S,A.

Whi ch prob ably proved tu thehappy Americans that, apartfrom Coca Cola, they ha ve gotsome foothold here,

S EV ERAL numbers wer e ren­dered-render meaning to

tear apart.

*E VEN penny-whistler Fra nkSito le forgot th at h is in stru­

ment had beco me practicallyh undred-percent Afr icana, andgave with a strictly down Southblues num ber--:very beautifull yplayed .

'Contact' ResignationsC APE TOWN.

Four members of the boa rd of"Contact," the fortnightly maga ­zine which supports LIberal Pal typolicy, resigned th eir positions re­cently.

They are Mr. John Wilson whowas chairman of the board , Mr.Jordan Ngubane a nd Mr. Ala nPat on of Nat al. an d Mr. Walt erStanford M.P. of Ca pe T own. Allare members of the Liberal Party .

The magazine is at present con­trolled by Mr. and M rs. Pat rickDuncan, the two re ma ining di rec­to rs.

The reason given for the resig­nations was that the board wasunable to funct ion properly withso man y members living far awayfrom the head office of "Contact"in Ca pe Town.

3 MASS TRIALSON 1 DAY

JOHANNESBURG.Monday, February 2, is

Mass Trial Day With a ven­gea nce .

On that day 520 So uth Afri ­ca ns will appea r in co urt inVente rsbu rg in the Fr ee State,Joh annesburg and Pretori a inthree different mass trials.

TRIAL No.1: The resumedhearing of the T reason Trialin which 30 Congress lea dersare charged.

T RIA L No.2: 200 Africanminers from Virginia mine arecharged with public vio lencearising out of the disurb ancesthere on Janua ry 6. Of the 200miners, 29 were granted bail of£30 each bu t all the rest re­mai n in jail.

T RIA L No.3: 289 cann ingworkers. of whom 200 a rewom en , will appear in C court,Johannesburg charged withlaking part in an illegal strikeat H. Jones and Co.

grandmother had been to drawher old age pension and been toldto take a pass or fo rego her pen ­sion.

Finally conference elected Mrs.Marcelle Goldberg FederationPresident and as the committeeMesdames Bertha Mashaba, EdnaPolo, Ruth Moatsoeane, VirginiaMgom a, Hild a Walaza , Magde­line Resha, Katie Mxaka to , VioletWeinb erg , Helen Joseph. Ma ryMoodley, Rahima Moosa andMrs. Naidoo.

JOHANNESBURG. Some workers have to pay as

T HE protest by residents of much as . 16/2 d. increase a month• on com bined bus a nd tram travel.

the South West townships Others living nearer the sta tio nagainst paying increased bus are pa ying an extra 8s. a month.and train fares since the open- The ~mounts vary, dep ending o ning of the new rail lines to the dista nce to be travelled...

• • •• To save precrous shillingsNaledi IS now m Its fourth workers and washerwomen a reweek. walking between the townships o f

Worke rs are still slogging it out White Ci ty Ja bavu, Mofolo South,twice a day because the y cannot Dlarnini, Chiawalo and Senoane topay the higher fares. Nancefield Station. .

As the y walk representati ons arc Feede r buses running on newbeing mad e to PUTCO, the Mayo r ro utes to the new rai l line arcof J oh ann esburg, the Counci l's carryi ng on ly people who liveNo n-Europea n Affairs Depar t- close to the .a ilway and whosement, the Transportation Board fares are no t so high.an d the Chambers of Cornmer cea nd Industry,

South West residents are• Protesting against the higher

tra in and bus fares.• Demanding lowe r fa res.• Demanding tha t the feeder

bus service from their townshipsto Nancefield Station be put back .PU T CO 's licence to operate onth is ro ute was refused by theT ra nsportation Board thi s year.

COSTS TOO MUCHThe trouble has come abo ut as

a res ult of the opening of the newrail line to Naledi and the otherfar out townships.

Those people livina near thenew ra il have better transportthan before but th ey cannotafford to pay for it. Not only

are rail fares higher but peopleliving some distance from the newsta tions have also to pay higherfares on new feeder bus routes.

DenounceTactics

PASSEtee gave up: continuing to takecre dentials would have held up theconference for hours.

Special Br a n c h detectivessqueezed themselves into the halland when asked to leave produceda warrant entitling them to bethere. Their presence did notfrighten the women. Their resolu­tion o n the anti-pass cam paign,Issue Number One everywhere, de ­nounced the extension of pa ssesto women an d the G overnmenttr icks to make women take passes,but proclaimed there are stillmore than one million Africanwomen who have no t ta kenpasses and pledged ever y effort toget the las t bu lwark of the free­dom of African women to standfirm.

YEAR OF STRUGGLEThis year will be made a year

of struggle against passes, sa id theresolution , a nd work will go onamong tho se who have not takenpasses as well as tho se who have.

A call went out to Africa n mento jo in in the campaign,

Two dates fo r migh ty protestswere fixed in addition to generalorgani sing plan s. T hese are Ju ne26 an d Au gust 9. South Africa nWom en 's Day.

As always, Fathe r MartinJa rrett-Ke rr hi t several nai ls hardon the head with his ope ning ad ­d ress to conference.

The women were showing So uthAfrica they were no t afraid, hesaid . They did not fear what theGovernment was do ing to them.Soon the Bantu Affa irs Depart­ment would control everything inour lives.

" One da y yo u will have to J:Oto the pass office to get a permitto blow your nose."

On the threa tened ba n againstmixe d ga ther ings , he said noteven the Prime Minister was go ingto tell him who he was goi ng toshake han ds with .

STIRRING TALESThere were stirring peaks dur­

ing the afternoon session whenwomen spoke the ir hearts o ut onpasses.

A domestic servant: "We tookpasse s without knowing what wewere do ing. The Govern ment G Glo rries a re running through a ll thesubur bs to issue passes. Fi rst theyissue pap ers to our employers toforce us. Give us time. we arenot sitting, we are organising. Weknow We have a bad nam e."

A Lichtenhunr speaker : "InLichtenburg women were fri ght­ened Joh annesburg wom en wouldnot stand with them. But whenyou were arrested in tho usa nds wewere sa tisfied. Our messa ge is'stand firm and fight passes evenwhen we are locked in jail'."

A Standerton woman: " I woulddie rather than take a pass ."

A Roodepnort speaker: " Wo ­men who have taken passes a rethrowi ng the m on the streets."

A Springs woman: "We whoa re married are being forced nowto marry passes. At the end ofFebruary in Springs we will befo rced at Payneville to carrypasses. I told them to go to hell ."

A woman from Zeerust: "Wehave been murdered becau se ofpasses. Mach ine guns ha ve beenused against the people. I haveseen people being shot. Men havebeen handcuffed hands and fee t.I have escaped from hell at Zee­rust. But there are still those inthis hell who sta nd firm againstpasses."

Tears came to the eyes of somewomen in the hall when a smallschoolgirl stood up to say her

FIGH1,000 A t Rand Conference

GovernmentJOHANNESBURG.

GOVERNMENT orders tothe African women of

Johannesburg to register atLabour Bureaux and the at­tempt to stampede them intotaking out passes have gottheir blood up.

This stuck out a mile a t lastSunday's conference of the Tran s­vaal region of tbe Federation ofSouth African women, at whichover 1.000 gathered.

M en at tbe confere nce ba d firstto give up their seats to th e wo­me n an d then even the ir sta ndlngroom, and still cen tlngents of wo­me n kept coming from everyJobannesburg and most Reefto wnships and from Standert on ,Ermelo, MorgensOD. Betba l,Vo lksrust, Pretoria, Zeerust andLichtenburg, many carrylag Con­gress Bags and colours.

Roodepoort alone mustered 150delegates.

A van from Jabavu did fourtrips bac kwards and forwards toget their women to the co nfer­ence. Pretoria sent two bus-loads,th e Alexandra bus looked asthough it would burst at thesea ms.

GAVE UPBy 11 a.m. the crowd was so

vast that the credentials commit-

Library Apartheid inCity Store Under Fire

CAPE T OWN.A number of Ca pe Town o rga­

nisa tions, including the Congres­ses, a re contemplating making re­presentations to Garlick's. a bigdepartment store here, against ahuge "Europeans On ly" notice inthe store's libra ry.

Approached by New Age. M r.Ne il Garlick, a di rector, said hehad no comments to make, butadded th at the sign ha d beenthere "s ince before the war, andnobody has o bjected ."

What is new , howeve r, is afurther sign rea ding, "We reg retlib ra ry books may not be han dedto Non-European messengers."An attendant a t the lib ra ry toldNew Age that th is was in theinterest of the Europeans who be­Jonged to the library.

"You might send a bo y for abook," she said, "and he mightlose it. Or he might work for yo ufor many years and then leaveyour employ without our know­ing it; if he walks off with a bo ok,you will aga in be res ponsible.You see. it' s for your own pro­tection."

A number of readers have com­plained to New Age about theexistence of apa rtheid in the li­brary. " It is the on ly store in Ca peTown whe re such discriminationis pract ised." said one rea der.

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MRA Man Is Pirow'sAid

JOHANNESBURG.T he M 0 r a IRe-Armament

Movement held a South AfricanAssembly ea rlier th is month a tMoravian Hill. between Johannes­burg and Pretoria . One of thespeakers at the Assembly was Mr.John T rengove, described in theM RA litera tu re as "an Ad vocat eof Pretoria ."

Mr. Trengove is a senior mem­be r of the prosecu tion team in thetreason trial.

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CINEMA BANSpeakers also strongf con ­

demned the Government's ',an onAfricans attt:ndil),p .A1ntrIno1> .

Mr. A. lanyile, a mem ber ofthe Youth League, told the meet­ing that cetain individuals werespreading a rumour that the In ­dian cinema owners were respons­ib le for the ban imposed by theGovernment

" Th is is a base lie," he said."Why shoull the own ers want tobar African from attendinK the~inemas wren sucb ~ large pro­portion of heir income is derivedfrom the i fricao clnema-goer j ",he asked.

"Obviousk the people respons­ible for thi rumour want to di­vert the atention of the peopleaffected fron the real culprits whoare responsble for the ban. Whoelse is resjnnsible bu t the Na­tionalist Grvernment which hasimposed suh hardships on uu rpeople as Bantu Authorities,passes, Banu Education and Ilho st of other apa rtheid laws," besaid.

TAl DEFIANCEMany spakers suggested that

rather than pay the increase intaxes the }fricans would go toto jail. Seveal speakers also con­demned thee who had alreadypaid such iicreased taxes .

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school buildngs maintenance tax,a threatener tax to erect BantuAuthorities JOkes, and then theusual heavy fines for stock tres­pass on the pastu rage.

"Ten gats of mine wentthrough the fence there," said anold man poh ting, "and for tha t Igot back Ilf cha nge from £4.

HE~VY HANDPu blic metings are now un­

known excc jt those convened bythe Native :ommissioner or hispetty official. If anybodv shouldask a questim, the Native Com­mission er camps do wn on himwith a heavyhand and dem ands toknow if he is a headm an . Heorders him tl sit down and to puthis question through the head­man.

Then a surlless stooge rises tosing the pnises of the NativeCornm issione to has ten the clos­ing of the meting and the issuingof liquor pernits,

and what I have to say to }:IU maybe unbelievable," he saic "Thepeop le are starving. T he Govern­ment an d its police are atack ingour peo ple with a viciousnss thatthey have never experiened be­fore.

"Women arrested for trivialollences are shorn of aI theirbair and conditions are bcODlin2worse each day," he said.

Appealing to the Africn Na­tional C ongress to give urgentattention to organising the peoplein the reserves, he said :

"Unless something is do.e verysooo there can quite easit be abloodbath in some areas.

"Nobody wants this , Jut theGovernment Is forcing it on thepeople by their harsh actkas," heconcluded.

Mr. Moses Mabhida, the Chair­man of the meeti ng, said hat theA.N.C. was paying urgen atten­tion to the problems tha werera ised at the meeting and tlat spe­cial rural commi ttees hal beenset up to go fully into tb com­plaints of the people in :he re­serves.

of ComplaintsReserves

VolumeNatal

Growing

OTHER TAXESOf the smaller taxes there is the

2/9 tax levied to raise funds forthe erection of an orthopaedichospital near Urntata. There arein add ition to these and the polltax of £1 15s. Od., the hut tax10 /- , or qu itrent, minimum 15/-,stock rates averaging 2/- per herd,

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yield have to pay a price for tak­ing too long to "agree. " The BAD­insists on compulsory unpaid la­bour. Groups of men take turnsto go out to construct fences ,while widows and women whosehus bands are away from theirhomes are ordered to providefood for the labour squads.

Failure to turn out fo r work orto provide food is an offence forwhich a fine may be imposed bythe Native Commissioner. Wo menwho cannot find enough food forthe ir children owin2 to the pre­vailing famine conditions are re­fusinS!: to provide the food for thesquads.

"BWOD SUCKER" TAX

In order to know the amountof dissatisfaction among the pea­sants and the misery tha t accom­panies the cruel implementationof the Nationalist decrees one hasonly to ask: "how are you?"Then the tale begins:

"We are 20in2 th roup a dijli­cult time • . • we go to sleep with­out a meal . • • the people ared&1ng at an utrpreced.ented rate• • • the whites demand taxes • • •among the latest tbe heaviest isImpundulu (Blood Sucker) . • •the white man's Governmentt"

Impundulu is supposed to be awitch's big bird that kills its vic­tim by sucking its blood. The lossof weight and anaemic conditionof TB cases is usually attributedto the invisible activities of thisfearful bird.

So aptly have the people namedthe 10/ - Tax which is descr ibedin official docum ents as a Gene­ra l Levy. The people do not knowits purpose, bu t the officials useall sorts of meth ods to compelthe people to pay it, and, as withother taxes, failure to pay it ontime involves the payment of 216Messen ger's fees. Men ar e grantedpermits to buy liquor on condi­tion the Blood Sucker Tax hasbeen paid. Before a man can ~e

atten ded to at the Na tive Co m­missioner's Offices he must pro­duce a receipt. One ofl'lcial toldNew Age that the purpose of thetax was to raise funds for thepayment of the salar ies of thelarge army of Bantu Author itiesofficials.

Arrested Women Shorn OfAll Their Hair

DURBAN.THE's erings of the people in'

tbe reserves were intolerableand conditions were daily 2ettingworse, speakers told a mass meet­ing organised by the Nata l Afri­can National Congress YoutbLeague last week. About 600 peo­ple attended.

A ricksha puller brought tearsinto the eyes of many when hespoke of the hardships undergoneby his people.

UNBELIEVABLE"I have just returned from home

on the communal pasturage.In th e pa st these land less peo­

ple have always supplementedtheir meagre wages by ploughingthe lands of tho se who have nostock. In payment they have al­ways been allowed the use of aportion of the allotment for them­selves .

MIDDLE CLASSIn the Ciskei the land that is

taken away from the poorer pea­sants is given to the more well­to-do. Thus as in the case of thetraders whom they plan to com­promise with loans from theBantu Investment Corporation,the Nats are "hoping to create amiddle class that benefits from theinsulation of the Africans in thereserves.

At the same time they are ere­atin& a ruling aristocracy of cor­rupt appointed cbiefs to whom themiddle class of traders and p 0­fessional men on the one hand,and the do Wlll'i2bt poor peasan tsand the dispossessed on the other,are to be subjected.

To ensure that even tho se whohave arable land are not altoge­ther independent, about hal f ofthe arable allotmen t averaging 8acres is not to be used .

DISPOSSESSEDSETILEMENTS

In anticipation of the largenumbers who are to be renderedcompletely dependent on wagesthe BAD is establishing' settle­ments for the dispossessed onsome of the T rus t farms. On thesesettlement s none will be allowedto keep even a milk cow. Thefamilies will depend entirely onwages f rom their menfolk whoare to be the chief source of mineand farm labour. The land-hold­ing peasants are told th at thesesett lemen ts are going to be themarket for the disposal of theirsurplus produce.

One of these settlements is be­ing esta blished about ten milesout of Kingwilliamstown, whileothers are taking shape on Trustfar ms around Umtata, Also thefirst work colon y has been esta b­lished in the Kingwilliam stowndist rict. Here boys dr awn fro mthe urban locat ions · ar e beingtrained to take up work on thefarms.

Since a pre-requ isite fo r theexecutio n of this pla n is the im­plementation of the BettermentAreas Scheme, the agriculturalwing of the BAD is working over­time to blud geon the unwi llingpeasants in to approving theirfencing schemes. Locations that

THE THAW.Glan Wilhams In th e Sews Chronicle.

NEW AGE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1959

land, Stock Taken From Transkei Peasants

(Con tinuer fro m previous col.)and the most patient and kindlyattention. In the individual fami­ly the child gets an even mo repersonal bra nd of tender, lovingcare."

And in spite of the ardourwith which the press still talksof the prevalence of a juveniledelinquent problem in the USSR,the U.S. expert s were un able todetect it. Th e U.S. Co mmiss ionof Education repor ted " theredoes not seem to be much juve­nile delinquency," while prostitu­tion has been wiped out almostcompletely.

Th e development of Sovietcult ural activities is another fac­tor which has. been an eye­opener to the Americans.

COLD WARBut altho ugh the U.S. public

ha s now been given a new pic­ture of the Soviet Union and isready for fr iendship and co­opera tion, Amer ican leadershave no t yet changed their ap­proach . They still talk in theterms of the cold war.

Here lies the magnificent tim­ing of Mr. Mikoyan's visit. Itha s foc ussed attention "on th erift between the people ofAmerica and the people whorule America. And it may havedone so ear ly enough to makethose ruler s think twice beforethey take a stride over the brinkof sanity into war.

From Govan MbekiPORT ELIZABETH.

I N the Transkei today fr omsome the land is taken away;

from others it is their stock. Onall are imposed new, intolerableand unexplained taxes. There is acomplete denial of the righ t tomeet n to speak even at meet­ings convened by the G overn­ment officials. Power, brutal nakedpower, is being used by the oftr­cials of the BAD to compel pea­sant women and disabled men toimplement the Bantu AuthoritiesAct.

With fiendish thoroughness theNationalist Government is carry­ing out the process of disposses­sion and is compelling more andmore people to look to work onthe farms as the only means ofmaking a livelih ood. Recently anorde r has been issued in theTranskei that people who havea rable allotments but have nostock are to forfeit su ch allot­ments. On the other hand thosewho OWn stock and have noarable allo tment are to be den iedthe privilege jo graze such stock

'THE PEOPLE ARE DYING'

tri al growth of the Soviet Unionover the last 2:5 years shows itto have been about twice ourown rate over the same period."

EDUCATIONMrs. Agnes E. Meyer, testify­

ing before the House Educationand Labo ur Committee in April,stated that the " true reason" forthe sweep forwar d of the USSR,Was the Communists' "faith thatcultivation of the human mind isthe greatest single source ofpower."

She pointed out that while "tobe sure the Russians emphasisescience," they did so "againsta background of history. litera­ture, language and geography"that was quite as thorough. (Mrs.Meyer's quite remarkable testi­mon y is printed in The Congres-siona l Record. April 29.)

SCIENCEThe change in the U.S. picture

of Soviet Science since thelaunching of Sputnik is not ne­cessary to document. Here therehas been th e most drama tic re-volution in U.S. though t. Theswing is almost to the other ex­treme-e-tha people are willing tobelieve Soviet science capable ofalmost anythinl{.

MEDICINEThe U .S. people now know

from their press that in the mor­tality rate the USSR standssuperior to the United States; inlongevity it has caught up withthe United States; in the numberof doct ors in proportion to thepo pulation it is no w far aheadof the United Sta tes.

Similar revelations have beenmade about Soviet housing,cloth ing and food.

Aptheker thinks that Sovietpro wess in sport "hail probablyhad as much impact 00 Ameri­can public opinion as have therevelations concerning science,technique and education ." SportsIllustrated, owned by Timemagazine , devoted a lmost awhol e issue to Soviet sport,com ing to the conclusion thatthe reason for the great achieve­ments of Soviet sportsmen wasthat there is "a consi derableamount of leisure time resulti ngfrom the eight-hour day. (he ne­glects to mention that the seven­hour day is being introducedvery widely, and that even the l- ~ _

six-hou r day. as at the LeninSteel Mills in Uzb ekistan, hasbegun to appear), a passion formass activity. and excellent faci­lities available at no cost."

CHILDRENEven the Soviet children are

reported to be better than theirU.S. counterparts. Dr. MiltonJ. E. Senn , director of the ChildStud y Centre at Yale University,who went to the Soviet Union"expecting the worst" an d whoturned extremely sceptical eyeson everything he was shown,finally had to report that thechildren " seem to fear no one."They a re "good-hu moured, easy­going, car efree and fr iendly."They are "rernarkablv well be­haved," they play together verywell, "they never seem to whine;they cry only when they hurtthemselves, and then on ly br ief­ly.' '' 'They are warm, sponta­neous. polite and genero us."

He quotes with manifest ap­proval the remark made to hi mby a Soviet journalist: "I t is Dottrue that we are a classless so­ciety. We have a privileged class-the children."

Th e Yale pr ofessor in his ownwords sta tes: "There can be nodoubt th at the Russians cherishand pamper their children . . .In the State nursery schools, inth e or phan homes, the babies aresurrounded b~ warmth, affection,

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WORLD STAGEBy

Spectator

concentrated in time has occur­red before."

The Christian Science Monitorreminded its readers "that thirtyyears ago, when pre-World WarI levels had been essentially re­stored, the Soviet Republicranked among the backwardcountries of the world, ahead ofChina and India, but on a levellower than any other majorEuropean nation." Then, withthe era of the F ive-Yea r Plans,began a collecti ve effort "whichhas skyrocketed Russia from oneof the mos t backward of coun­tries to the number two industrialgiant of the world."

Rep resentati ves of the U.s.steel industry. then the alumi­nium industry came back sur­prised . So did a uranium expert.An official of th e U.S. Depart­ment of Forestry came back toreport that even in growingtrees the Soviet was ah ead .

Most astonishing, ChesterBowles rep or ted that:

"Since 1953 the Soviet Unionhas even provided more capitalthan we have to assist the econ o­mic development of Asia andAfrica, not including Soviet aidto China .

Soviet loans on generous termshave been flowing into Afghani­stan, India, Egypt, Syria , Burma,Indonesia, and elsewhe re andtra de is being rapidly expandedwith these and many other coun­tri es. Th e Soviet economic assist­ance programme to Syria , nego­t iated in 1957, was large r thanthe current American-aid pro­gramme for the whole Middl eEa st pu t together.

WELL AHEADEdward L. Allen . economic ad­

viser of the Central IntelligenceAgency, in a "confidential brief­ing session" of leading Americancapital ists (iater made public)told his worried audience th at incertain significant items-such asmachine tools and cement-So­viet production was alread y wellahead of American.

In an address delivered atWest Point last November, Wil­liam C. Foster, fo rmerly DeputySecretary of Defence, said: " Acom parison ef the rate of indus-

the Sputnik-inspired "new look"by the U.S. at Soviet reality'?Overall, it is one which repo rtsthe Soviet Union not as an "ex­periment," with all the connota­tions of wobbliness a nd imper­manence that word conveys. butas a firmly esta blished and clear­ly viable socia l order.

In addition, and this is a morerecen t development, there is re ­currmg use of the Soviet Union,by American observers. as astandard against which ma y bemeasured American accomplish­ment! As Mrs. Roosevelt ex­presses it, in terms of her ownenormous range of experience:

" It seems inevita ble in anymeeting nowadays that someonewill compare what is being donein the Soviet Union in any areaof discussion." (New York Post,Oct. 23, 1958.)

THE ECONOMYThe influentia l syndicated co­

lumnist Walter Lippman re­ported: "The growth of theSoviet economy has been amaz­ing." The New York Post colum­nist, Marquis Child wrote fromMoscow. "It could well be tha tnothing on such a scale and so

u.s. TAKE S A NEWLOOK AT RUSSIA

U.S. political commenta-tors, summing up the

effect of Mr. Mikoyan's tourof America, are almost una­nimous in agreeing that itdemonstrated an intense de­sire among the great majorityof the U.S. citizens-with theexception of the lunaticfringe of anti-commonistsand the U.S. Administration-for better relations with theSoviet Union.

Even 'Time' (Jan. 19) sadly re­ported the visit's "oroof thatRussia and the U~S. peop lecould come to terms, even if theAdmmistration could not ."

Not very lon g ago the U.S. re­ception would have been far lessfrien dly; the att empts of provo­ca teurs to bring out stree t mobswould have been more success­ful. What are the fac tors whichhave changed the pic ture so dra­matically?

NEW REPORTSIn two articles in recent issues

of the U ,S. Magazine "PoliticalAllairs," Dr. Herbert Apthekerhas listed some of the recent de­velopments which have broughtabout a complete alteration inthe American view of the SovietUnion. Here are some extractsf rom Aptheker 's stud y:

Recently an American profes­sor, addressing a gathering of hiscolleagues. said: " In just fortyyears of communist syst em they(the Soviet peoples) have literallyharnessed technology to a starand galloped clear off the globe!Tell th is to the starviDJ: masseswho are hungry fOT industrialisa­tion. Evidently communism doesnot stifle all that is creative. Weare caught with our propagandapants down preaching a storywbich the simple 'beep beep' ofSputnik so eloquently denies."(Urban Whitaker, of San F ran­cisco Stat e College, in The Wes­tern Political Quarterly, June,1958, p. 202.)

To what measure were these'propaganda pants' cut? Bv andlarge, they were cut in such amanner that most Americans firstvisiting the USSR expect tofind, wrote Profess or Harold J,Berman of the Harvard LawSchool, " barbed wire in , thestreets and people walkingaro und with their heads hangingand their bodies bent." (TheAmerican Scholar, Spring 1958.)

THEY CAN'T BEProfessor Berman went on to

tell of an American correspon­dent in Moscow in 1956 whodescribed in a dispatch to hispaper a May Da y parade withthe " people singing and dancingin the stre ets and enjoying them­selves thorou ghly." The edito r ofthis paper, on the other hand ,fro m his American officetold hisreaders of "an embittered Rus­sian people forced by their hatedgovernm ent to demonstrate infa vour of a revo lution whichthey did no t want."

When the correspondent re­mon strated. and told his editor,"I was there--I saw it-theywere not bitter, THEY WEREHAPPY, THEY WERE HAV­ING A GOOD TIME," tbeeditor replied in effect that theRussians may have appearedhappy, " but that actually the ycould not have been happy, inview of the evils of the systemunder which they live."

Adlai Stevenson , who mightha ve been expected to be wellinformed about conditions, re­ported that his visit to the So­viet Union had "shattered hispreconceptions of Soviet life ."

NEW LOOKWhat is the main substance of

Above: Some of the 30 treasonaccused arrive for the re-open­ing of the trial in Pretoria,From left to right: Mr, P, Se­Iepe, Mrs. Helen Joseph, MessrsE. Tshunungwa, L. Massina,G. Sibande, J . Molefi , M. Mool­la , D. Nokwe, E. P. Moretsele

and R. Resha,Below: The only two Europeanaccused in the trial of the thirty:Mrs. Helen Joseph and Mr.

Leon Levy.

• Galvani sed cups and plate sare used by the nu rses. T he me­morandum, point ing out that thes eutensils are not cond ucive to goodhealth , requests th at they be re­placed by china cups and platesalready in stock.

• Nu rses a re not told in ad­vance of any changes that are tobe introduced in the administra­ion of the hospita l.

• The visitor's lounge is closedfor the greater pa rt of the day anda request is made for it to beopened for the whole day so thatoff-duty nurses can meet theirfri ends.

The African National Co ngressand the Natal Indi an Congresshave set up a comm ittee whichis supplying food to the nurses.

UNITYIn an interview with New Age,

Mr. G. M. M bele, organiser ofthe African National Congress,said that he was very impress edwith the unity of the nurses. Onlyone nurse out of over 500 ha drefused to join in the boycott, headded.

500 Durbon NorsesBoycoll Meols

DURBAN.OVER 500 nurses employed at

the Kin2 Edward Hospitalhave boycotted the dlnin2 hallsince lunch time last Wednesday,in protest against the poor qualityof food supplied to them.

Nurses interviewed by New Agestated that for some time th eyhave been complaini ng to the au­tho rities ab out the quality of thefood supplied to them, bu t noheed was taken of these com­pla ints.

Last week a group formed them­selves into a campaign committeeand on T uesday hand-printedleaflets were found on all tab les,d ormitories and window sills, urg ­ing the nu rses to boycott thedining halls. The leaflets statedthat the food was "fit only forpigs."

MEMORANDUMIn a memorandum to the Hos­

pital autho rities the nurses set outthe fo llowing complaints , apartfrom the poor quality of the foodsupplied :

uosh Indictment,"elence Will Ask

HELP SELLNEW AGE

JOHANNESBURG.

W HEN the tr ial of the 30charged with High Trea­

son resumes in Pretoria onFebruary 2, the Defence willargue for the quashing of theindictm ent on the grounds thatparts of it disclose no offence.

Mr. A. I. Maisels Q.C., lea­der of the D efence team, gavenot ice of th is during the dayand a half proceed ings in. Pre­toria last week, after an un­successful application for thetrial to be shifted to Johannes­burg.

The judges' reasons for therefusal of the application fora change of venue are to begiven later.

WORLD TRADE UNIONSPROTEST

The International Confede­rat ion of Free T rade Unionshas wri tten to the Prime Mini­ster, Dr. Verwoerd , urging thatlllr----------------------------­he withdraw the cha rgesagainst those under arrest forTreason.

The ICFfU has two reasonsfor its appeal: its belief inharmonious race relations; andthe fact that several tradeunionists are among the de­fendants.

After the Crown had with ­drawn first agai nst 61 accusedand later its indictment agai nstall the remaining accused, th eICFfU hoped the case wasfinally closed, it wrote D r.Verwoerd, The re-opening ofthe case agai nst the 30 isdescribed as "very dep lorable."

The Fe deration writes thatit has no doubt that the casehas, over the last two years,embi ttered a large part ofpublic opinion outside an.dwithin South Africa and IScalculated to further aggravateexisting tension.

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modest men on the "financeside" who have been doing anenormous amo unt of sloggingbackground work, arranged thatthe Jazz Dazzlers sho uld bejoined by five others to formthe band.

Mos t people ha ve learnt some­thing from "K ing Kong. " Forinsta nce Sol Klaaste, the pian­ist, says he 's never had a chanceto do anything in the way ofscor ing before and he hopes todo more in the future.

A STEP FORWARDAnd Miriam Makeba, in spite

of her long stage experience hasnever don e anything like thisbefore. Miriam has been sing­ing all her life, but from enter­ta ining friends at home to be­coming leading lady in " KingKong" is a far stride that tookyears of hard work as well asa soaring golden voice. "I'mjust beginning to feel Joyce,"she said, " but I' ve not - becomea drinker because she's aShebeen Queen."

Som eone asked me "What doyou think? "

"It will be a success." "Yes,but what's the secret?"

"First, the music; second theproduction- you can 't pre sentsuch an enormously complicatedsho w without really tight pro­ducing; third, enthus iasm- lookat them."

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keeping some contact with Non­Whit e journa lists and picked indi ­viduals.

The U.S.A. cover up for itscolour bar operating in SouthAfrica is that unli ke the Russiansth y don't want to infringe thecou ntry's liquor laws and meetingNon-Whites wou ld embarrassthem in the light of the National­ist Government's clearly stated'policy.

That sounds like a point , may­be, this anxiety of the U.S. repre­sentatives not to get embroiled inlocal politics.

But then how explain this latestnews, that of all political 2I'OUplthe Africanists should be in theposition to get facilities for hold­in~ highly delkate political talkson the premises of the UnitedStates Infonnation Service?

Nothing could embroil theU.S.A. more in local poli tics andspread the suspicion that far frombeing disinterested observers, someUnited States officials are moredeeply involved and taking sidestha n they would like peopl e toknow,

ARID DISCUSSIONAs for the SA BRA meeting

with the Africanists, the six menpresent from that body and thegroup of professors hived off intoa rather a rid discussion of whowere rea lly indige nous people toSouth Africa and how the countrymight be partitioned, and then thediscussion seemed to get some­what bogged down.

Another meeting is said to be inthe offi ng, with th e possib ility thatnext time a leading NAD officialmight be drawn in.

VERWOERD ANGRYOn the other han d, it is

rumoured tha t Premier Verwoerdis highly displeased with the pub­licity these talks have been get­ting, and may take drastic stepsto curb the initiative of theSABR A pro fessors .

Verwoerd has openly snubbedProf. L. J . du Plessis. the Potchef­stroom professor who has advo­cated talks with ANC leaders.Now it is believed he may moveaga inst other SABRA men whoare more closely identi fied withNationalist policies.

Mrwebi , in the cast and band,and secretary of the Union ofSouthern African Art ists, JonasGwangwa, the u ornbonist, arida teacher. Gwigwi was pulledout of his car to show his pass.They were in no mood to enter­tam the Mayfair police withsna tches of "K ing Kong" for thethree hours they waited in thecop shop.

Penny whistles have beenpinched. Penn y whistlers ' litt lefeet cut, not in gang warfare,thi s, but on broken bot tles. Thesoun d of soft drink bottl es be­ing knock ed over on the con­cretc floor is an acco mpan imentto any rehearsal.

EXCITINGBut what happen s off-stage is

sometimes as exciting as thewords of the show:

" Honey, can you , really getme a specia l pair of white shoessize 7t?" in a passionate whis­per.

Someone is teleph on ing amidthirty shoulder pads, balls ofs tring and shre ds of an old fur :"The record company wants ananthology of the lyrics we haverecorded." Spike Glaser, themusical director gets up fromthe floor: "Nothing as big asthis before. We've built it all upround the music. Oh yes, ofcourse there were difficult ies, butif I loo k dead beat it still drivesme crazy with pleasure, th isshow. Yes, mental exhilaration ,that 's it."

Plaintively, across the silencetha t Leon G luckman, the pro­ducer, has managed to com­mand , comes the heart cry:"When are you going to tellme about the parasols ?"

" Now these blades are bloodylethal so be ca reful. We' re usingprops to-night . What's happenedto the bicycle? T aken away']Now, isn' t that charming?" Andwith barbed patience, Gluckmanstarts again.

Meanwhile First Night Com­mittees are meeting at rendez­vous in town; a ll so rts of peoplehave been persuading all sortsof factories to give all sor ts ofthings; costume crisis meetingshave been survive d-"No she's34." "She's down here as 36."" 34. Sure of it ,"

The Union, with tall efficient

smaller area which incl udes aColou red schoo l.

T his has cause d consternationamong the Moslem communitywho have been living in theMalay quarte r for generations.

Interviewed by New Age, ImamBake r. a leader of the communi ty,sa id that strong protests wouldbe made to the Governmentagarn t any changes in the a reas .

"The Malay people have livedrere to r many yea rs and it willbe a terrible thing if we find thatwe suddenly have to give up ourJOines. We Intend mak ing strongep resentatic ns to the Govern­II C·' t abo ut this matt er."

An Ind ian shopkeeper in St .George's Street said : "I have beentradin g here for years without ob ­jec .ions from European s. In factmost of my customers are Euro­peans. If I have to move to thetiny area being investigated forInd ians it will mean the finish ofmy business,"

The Group Areas Action Com­mitt ee which has been campaign­inJ: against the Act in the Penin­sula is making pre parations for anintensive campaign in Simonstownin order to muster strong opposi­tion against any plans to carve upthe town.

At Rehearsal With JENNY JOSEPHW E'VE heard a lot about

the story of King Kong.What about the story of thestory? Far fetched? Hardly,when you consider " hat goesinto a show like this.

Jt seems a long while ago nowsince a group or people nsicncdID a SUburban studio to ' I oddMatshikiza fiddling out tunes ona plano.

"You see, on one side youcould have a gym and while thr spiactismg was going on - "

"Y e<;, I sec It" Arthur Go ld­reich's head W.lS bur sung Withvision s; "yes, and a bicycle, likethis."

" It grew in those days, a bouta ycar ago, ya, just af ter Har ryhad left to r Cape Town," Toddtold me, " j u st by talkm g, andfeeling the story. We'd talk,piling up the ideas, discussingbackwards and fo rwards , andthat's how 1 wrote the music.Gee, it was great then,"

SHEBEEN VISITO ne of the urgent ex peditions

in those day s was to take Pa tWilharn s, the Iync writer, to ashe been. Even tho se who knewhe r talent were amazed the wayshe caught on to that side.

There were many organisa­tional vicissitudes. More thanone perso n threatened to walkout more than on ce.

But what's happeni ng to itnow ?

" I'm more enthusiastic now"Arthur said when I met him atrehearsal the other nigh t. "Wha tI didn't realise then, when wewere working out the ideas T oddand Harry Bloom had startedup abo ut six mon ths befo re, isthat you can create cha racte rsthat are not really real until youwork with people. 1 enjoy everysingle second of the people."

He had never done sets before" but," he emphasised, " I knowthe townships and the people. Iknow what a township house isand what it means to thepeople."

Var ious off-stage dramas oc­cur with this enormous cast andeven great er ar my of "executiveaids." Going home the othernight three were arrested forhaving no night pas ses-e-Gwigwi

Non- hiles Shocked by AreosPon For Simonslown

CAPE TOWN.pLANS for the division of

Simonstown under the Grou pAreas Act have caus ed widespreadconcern among residents there andthe Group Arens Action Commit­tee is pre paring for orga nised pro­tests aaainst any propo sa ls ofracia l separation.

The Gr oup Are as Board intendsmvestiga tmg two main areas foroccupa tion by Europeans only.

T he first is the entire sectionfrom Seaforth to beyond theSimonstown ra ilway station. in­clud ing all sho ps and businesseson the main road. The second i ~

mainly the existing white area atGlencairn.

But the Indian traders inSimonstown will sulfer most if theplans arc put into effect, for theBoard is investigating a proposalthat they should be confined to asmall area. now vacant land, inDido Valley. This area is undeve­loped and the Indian populationsees economic ruin if they areforc ed to move from their exi'ltinJ:premises mostl y in the main roadand St. George's Street.

Two areas are to be investi­gated for occu pation by Whit e orColoured people-what is kno wnas the Malay quar ter and a

• Con demned the threatenedban on mixed gatherings and theexclusion of Af ricans from No n­European cinem as.

• Ca lled fo r full support ofthe Congress campa ign to recruit20,000 trade unionists this year ,and to back the worker s' demandfor £1 a day.

• Condemned the racialism ofthe Africanists and pledged fullsuppo rt to the policy of the ANCund er the leadership of ChiefLutuli.

CHILD VICTIMS(Continued from page 1)

the evening before the removalwas due to come into effect andtold that all his grades and stan­dard one pupils were to move thefollowing mo rning fr om the schoolthey attended in Newcla re to onein Sophiatown.

These tots, some only five yearsold, have to walk past the Wes­tern Areas beerhall, over the dan­gerous main road and across thebusy tram line and then to school.Parents have tried to escort themto school since the move, buteven then three small children gotlost the first day and were foundwandering al0D2 the tram lines.Other parents are carryin~ theirchildren to school in bicycle car­riers.

BREACH OF FAITHThe parents ha ve told the West

Rand Scho ol Board that thisshuffling about of their children ISa breach of the undertaking giventhem that the beginners would bepermitted to remain at the New­cla re Coloured School.

They are press ing that theclasses transferred to the Sophia­town Coloured school be movedback to Newclare and a do ubleschool session started. Pre-fabri­cated buildings could be erectedand church and other premisesbuilt for overflow classes, says theparents' memorandum.

Parents have met several timesin the last week to discuss plan sfor action on this issue, and feel­ing against the School Board au­thorit ies for their callous handlingof the matter is running high.

ORDERS FROM ABOVEThe school authorities have let

slip tba t the orders to send Indi anschool children twenty miles outto Lenz-where there are threeschools but only ab out 75 Ind ianfamilies, apart fro m the barracks-come from high-up quarters inthe government in Pretoria.

The Indian people have neveraccepted Lenasia as a gro up are aso the Government is tryin!: to putpressu re on tbem to do so byusinK their young children.

Trade unionist Mr. John Gaetsiwe urges young people to jointrade unions.

JOHAN NESBURG.SPECIAL Branch men eused a

commotion at the ~wclare

ra lly of the African l'ationalCongress Youth League Il§t Sun­day when they seized the writtencopy of the speech by lb'. VicGoldberg.

The Transvaal You th Leaguepresident, Mr. S. Segale, nade astrong ap peal for calm.

Speakers at the rally warnedthe Minister of Justice aid hispolice to accede to the iopu lardemand for the dropping of thetreas on case.

Dr. D. Munga said 0 con­tinue with the case was 0 carrythe blundering .even .fnrth r. Notonl y shou k the case be dropped" but the gossly incompetent so­called Miniter of Justice shouldgo with it .. . not only the Mini­ster, but he whole NationalistParty must go with him."

Mr. Goldierg made a fiery at­tack on tb threatened ban onmixed gatbrings.

The rallypassed resolutions tha t• Congntulated the Afri can

women in their struggle againstpasses.

• Salutel the democratic gainsof the peojle of Basutolancl as astep fo rwad to the defea t of im­periali st rection.

• Condenned the brutal wayin which Congo Africans hadbeen trea tel by the police.

Work~rs Arrested(Con timed from page 1)

289 workes are so me husband swith their vives, and mothers withtheir dauglters.

Their firt night in custody theworkers sjenr singing Congressan d union longs.

EII'THUSIASMThe roac in front of the Fort

was the SC<Ile of high enthusiasmwhen the vorkers were eventuallybaile d out late on Fri day after­noon. Th e men were released firstbut mergel with the crowd ofwomen as they came out of thedoors of tb Women's Ja il and theworkers blocked the street as theygreeted ore another watched bynassers by and workers on thehospital rofto ps.

Many 0 the workers live inNewclare and the Newclarebranch of the Af rican NationalCongress h d a lorry wa iting out­side the Firt to take the workershome. The rest ma rched singingto the staton.

The wokers are being prose ­cuted unde the Native Sett lementof Dispute Act for taking part inan illegal strike. The case willbegin on Jebruary 2 in C Court.

POLICE SEIZE SPEECH AYO~TH RALLY

NEW AGE, THU RSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1959 7

onGuinea M<NesFrendl

UNWORKABLETie criticism comes not only

frorr the right-wingers, who wishto abotage any redistributionschene, but also from the left,whia claim s that in its presentforrr the plan is unworkable. theland allocated being too small tobe vorked economically.

Tie conflict which has arisen isan ilusfration of the shortcomingsof tie form of unity adopted bvEJmt and Syria which, instead ofbein: based on tru e federal prin­cipia, placed all power in E~ypt's

bqQo, (See New Age, Jan. 15.)

with,nt adequate consu lta tionwith Congress and h based on theEgyItian redistribution pro ­gramn e which was evolved undercondCions different from those inSyrh.

Faces from the former colonyof Grinea invaded a French mili­tary camp and the former gend­arrneie in the Guinea capital ofComkrv recently.

Thy compr ised gendarmes andpolie rnen ar med with sub­madine guns, and led by a repre­sentaive of the Minister of theInteror.

Thy fo rcibly evicted civilianstaff-all of them Africans andnearz all natives of Guinea-ina nire and a half hour operatio n.

T le camp and the former gend­armeie building housed Frenchtroojs who were liquidatingFrerrh affairs there, and civilianstaff of the French mission inCorukry. The civilians evictedwereregro uped in other accornmo ­dat ioi,

"EMERGEl'I'CY"

Frondizi ordered . state of na­tional emergency. "housands ofPeronists and Comnunists weretaken into custody all over thecountry. The days of poli ticalprisoners-which thePresident hadsworn were gone forever-areback again.

Str ikes are now ilegal, the jailsare once again filled with politicalprisoners and the comtry is in fer­ment. As his reward Frondizi haswon the full support of the armedforce s, the landiwners , theChurch, and the U.S Government.

But it is the peosle of A~en­

tina who will decile the issue­and all the indicatons are thatthey are preparlng n do battle.

at the expense of ne Argentinepeople.

As prices rose and living condi­tions fell , a wave )f discontentswept the country. Vorkers in in­dustry after industry came out onstrike .

Deeply committecl to guardingthe foreign investmests he had en·couraged, Frondizi ~Id out com­pletely.

He launched a fiece attack lastNovember on the Conmunists andthe Peronists who sill have con­siderable support n the tradeunions.

~ Syrian Min ister of Agra'rian Reform. Mustafa Ham­

donn. has Issued a decree for thedistr ibution among the landlesspeasantry of about 35,000 acresof land belongfng to 3!) big land­owners. Compensation will bepaid to the landowners.

This is the thir d decree of itskind. and brings the total of landconfiscated so far under the Sy­rian land reform programme toslightly over one million acres.affecting more tha n 80 landown ers.

The first distribution of confis­cated land is due to take place onFebruary 1, the anniversary of thedeclaration of Syrian-Egyptianunion .

The plan for redistribution how­ever has been much criticised byall sections of Syr ian opinion. Itwas drawn up by CllirQ ~xp~~

Syrian LandDistribution Muddle IllustratesDe eci in Egypt-Syria Federal

System

tion. Unlike the Brit ish constitu­tion for Kenya, the new CongoConstitution will give the Whitesno political privileges.

NO APARTHEIDAs the Manchester Guardian

(January 14) pointed out : "Apart­heid is ruled out; so is 'partner­ship' in the sense of two racialgroups co-operat ing only as dis­tinct groups. This is stiff med icinefor the settle rs to take; and itmay be largely for this reason' thatthe King, whose authority theyare less likely to dispute than theGovernment's, took his par t in thedeclaration of national policy."

GETS RESULTSThe Belgian Premier Was care­

ful to stress that for neighbouringRuanda-Urundi, also controlledby Belgium the reforms did notapply. There had been no revollthere.

The two most importan t planksof Frondizi's programme were thefullest possible exploitation of thenation's natural resources and thecollaboration of all sections of thepopulation, regardless of theirpast political affiliation.

The policy of full industrialisa·tion and the massive economic re­construction aroused the intenseopposition of the so-called GORI­LAS, the land- owners who findtheir ma in support among thearmed force. and the Roman Ca­tholic Church. They are tradi­tion ally opposed to the industriali­sation of the country which wouldseverely undermine their own so­cial and economic status, based onthe export of agricultural rawmaterials.

QUICKENCE

at s a-Will Argentina'sondizi Be Next?

ContinuedFor

habitan ts of the Congo. The powerof decision will progressively beleft to them in ever wider fields,"he said ."BONDS OF ASSOCIATION"

Mr. Eysken s said that afte r theCongo had developed politicallyit would be desirable that "bondsof Association" shou ld be main­tained between the Congo andBelgium. "Our two countries willdecide its form freely at that mo­ment." he said.

The new communal and rura lcouncillo rs will be elected by uni ­versal suffrage, and the inhabitantsof the Co ngo will have equalityof rights and duties. These coun­cillors, together with the existingcity councillors will elect the ma­jority of the provincial councillorsand , later. general councillors.

The Prime Minister said that a"General Council of the Congo,"a "skeleton" Ch:.mbcr of Repr e­sentatives, would take the place ofthe present government coun cil.Pal aile! to the General Council aLegislative Council or "skeleton"Sena te, would be created.

This body will be composedpartly of members elected by pro ­vincial councils and partly byappointees, as in the present colo­nial council whose place it willtake .

From March, 1959. each of theprovincial councils will nominatetwo councillors to sit on the Legis­lative Council. The General andLegislative Councils will havejoint powers of legislation anddecision that the law will pro­gressively grant them.

Limited though the y are, thesereforms are of considerable im­portance, and show that the Bel­gian imperialists have learnt agreat deal from the disastrous po­licy followed by the ir Dutchneighboun in Indonesia, where,by trying ~reedily to hold every­thin~. they lost everythinl::.

T he Belgians have even beenastute enough to make no attemptto includ e in the reforms the en­ter tainment of racial discrimina -

AfterTHE spotlight in South America

is shiftin~ from Cuba, wherethe new ~overnment is making theIasci tt torturers of the Batista reogime pay for their bestiality, toArgentina. where the governmentof Arturo Frondizi faces growingpopu lar opposition as it sells thecountry once more to U.S. impe­rialism.

The big businessmen of the U.S.and Western Europe have fai th inthe Frondizi government, and the yare pouring mone y into the coun­try in the confident hope of draw­ing out huge profits -a-but thenthey had the same confidence inthe stabrl tty of Batista .

Fron drzi was elected last year,with the support of the Peronistsand of progressives, on a plat­form which promised the defenceof democracy and independencefrom U.S. imperialism.

-

NEW PLANPrime Minister Gaston Eyskens,

a right-winger of the Social ­Christian (Catholic) party, an­nounced that the Congo wouldbecome "a democracy capable ofdeciding its independence," by in­stituting elections and a "skeleton"Parliament .

Local elect ions will be held forAfrican councillors in towns andmost rural areas by the end of1959. T hese will elect in 1960 pro­vincial councils to fo rm the "skele­ton" of a Chamber of Represen­tatives.

"Belgium intends to organise inthe Congo a democracy capableof exercising the prerogatives ofsovereignty and of deciding itsindependence. The reali sation ofthis final objective will be pur­sued without stopping and withthe collaboration of all the in-

Constitution Is DesignedImperialist Control

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CONGO REVOPROMISE FIND

New

•• Bongo, Bongo, Bongo,I don 't wan na leave th e Congo."

With acknowledgments to Eccles.

But

Buganda Elections

lIFRICli

Mr. Michael Kintu was re­elected Prime Mini ster of Bugan­da by the Assembly. He received60 votes agai nst 30 cast for Mr .Y. K . Lule, the Uganda Minis terof Social Develop ment . his onlyopponent.

There had been an intensivecampaign, and large crowdscheered the announcement of th eresult of voting. Mos t of the po li­tical parties and the RomanCatholic interests supported Mr.Lule, but the strong position of theBuganda traditionalists ensuredMr. Kintu 's re-election for fiveyears.

Mr. Kintu became Prime Mini ­ster in 1955, when the Kabaka re­turned from exile .

EFFECT OF ACCRAAccra was of more than indirect

import ance : Th e Congo was re-

Until now the Belgian policy ofcomplete and rigid suppression ofpoli tical activity has been effec­tive in spite of several carefull yhushed-up revolts . Colonial powershave looked with envy on thi s"oas is of stability in an otherwisedisorderly continent" (LondonTimes 7/ 1/59). But now in thenew era of the liberation move ­ment symbolised by the AccraPan-African Conference. the sup­pression of African political ac­tivity is no longer possible.

BELGIUM has announcedIpresented there by Mr. Diomi , ~mea programme for the of the leaders of the Abako libe­• • • ratory orgamsation, and mayor of

granting of limited democracy the Ngi ri-Ngiri qua rter of Leo­in the Belgian Congo follow- poldvill e, and he placed befo reiug the recent popular revolt the Conference the demand for in­there which brought Belman d~pendence In the Congo. He,

• • ~. with most of the other Abakocolomal shares crashing by leaders, is now in prison.between 8 per cent and 10 per The Africans in the Congo arecent on the stock markets. fort unate in that they face an. op­

ponent far weaker than Bntainand France.

Belgium is a small country with­out the military resources to fighta prolonged colonial war in theBelgian Congo. For her , warfareon the scale of that in Algeria oreven in Cyprus, is out of thequestion.

Very swiftly af ter the Congorevolt - which was temporarilycrushed with typical imperialistbrutality. paratroopers going intoaction and taking 400 lives-theBelgian government publi shedplans which it had prepared wellin advance. These aimed at reta in­ing Belgian economic power andthe huge profits drawn from heCongo. by granting political con-cessions.

8 NEW AG E, THU RSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1959

TOIVO EXILED TOOVAMBOLAND

Soon a fte r I announced in thiscolumn that Hanif Mohammed,Pakistan's great batting prodigy,holds the worl d title for thelongest innings-973 minutes (seeNew Age 8.1.59), be turned inanother meritorious achievement.break ing Don Bradman's 29-year­old record by scoring 499 run out(not 'not-out' as erroneouslv re­por ted in some papers) .

This world record was achievedin a provincial match between Ka­rachi and Bahawalpur, which israted as a first class gam e, just likethe county matches in England orthe inter-provincial Currie Cupgames of this country.

Prior to this, Sir Donald Brad­man had held the record with 452not out in an Inter-State game in1929.

It was pleasing to note that thisself-same player was one of thefirst to send his congratulat ions toyoung 23-year-old Hanif

Witb many more years ofcricket ahead of him, it is morethan Ii ely that we may see BaBifin action against our own players,either here or in PalMstan, for itis mooted that a team from thiscountry will definitel y be touringIndia and Pakistan either in 1961or 1962.

By the end of the year we sha l1be seeing in acti on the other Non­White wo rld test rec ord hold er,Garfield Sobers, when he toursSouth Africa with Wo rrel l's WestIndian team . It was against Pa ki­stan that he scored 365 not out,to break Sir Leon ard Hutton's re­cord of 364.

With this jubila tion at Han if'srecord, there is also a sad an dtragic note. Abdul Aziz, who part­n red h im in his record·breakinginnings, was struck over the heartby a ball when facing Dildar Ah­med in a match against a ServicesXI a week later. He collapsed anddied befo re reacbing hospital.

Only 17 years of age , Az iz wasa promising prospect, capable ofperhaps emulating his team-mateHanif, whom he looked up on as a" guru" in cricket.

HANIF MOHAMMED'SFEAT·

WE HEAR IT SAID . . .• That Joe Ngidi, the South

African Welter and Middleweightchampion, is back again in Austra­lia in an effort to challengeGeorge Barnes for ' the EmpireWelterweight title.

• That th e S.A . Bantu Cric ketTournament held recently in Jo­hannesburg was like every otherracial national tournament, a fi­nancial "flop." Cut out these ra­cial affairs, and repl ace them withprovincial tourname nts, and thensee the result.

• That the return clash be ­tween the Durban African XI andJohannesburg XI which takesplace in Durban this week hasaroused great enthusiasm, with theformer determined to avenge theirearlier defeat. The chances a rethat Jo'burg will still come outtops, for since Dhlomo left Sou thAfrica, leade rshi p and tactics hav ebeen lacking in the Durban team.

• That followin g widespreadprotest (repor ted by me in thiscolumn last week). the G olden CityPo st has stated that the trophyfor the Sportsman of the Year wasannounced 'by them in error to bethe Coca Cola Trophy, an d is infact the Golden City Post FloatingTrophy for the Sportsman of theYear.

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~ South African Sports As-sociation's epoch-making con­

ference which took place in D ur­ban recently was a huge success,except that most of the nation albodies were not directly repre­sented. The reason for this may bethat many national tournamentswere taking place in various partsof the country at the time.

First of all the steering com mit­tee, under the chairmanship ofMr. E. I. Haffejee, did an excellentjob in making all the preliminaryarrangements, in additio n to sub­mitting a draft constitution and at­tending to many other duties re ­quired of such an undertaking.

Now the Sports Association ha sbecome a reality with headquartersin Port Elizabeth for a period oftwo years. Most gra tifying is thefact that Mr. Dennis Brutus is itsSecretary, from whom much is ex­pected, for onl y now does thework beg in in the struggle forinternational recognition and theelimination of race discrim inat ionin sports. And no one knows thistask better than Mr. Brutus, whohas built up a very big contactoverseas with leading personali­ties, who have thrown in their lotwith us in this fight.

RESOLUTIONSMany resolutions were taken ,

chief of which were (1 ) seeking in­ternational recognition with fullstatus; (2) deploring tbe S.A. BantuAthletic Association's affiliation tothe ,White National body, thus ac­cept ing subservient status andharming the cause ; (3) condemningtours to and from South Africa onthe bas is of racial discrimination,such as Worrell's West Indies teamwhich is due here in November,and calling on the S.A. CricketBoard and Mr. Worrell to cancelthe tour; (4) noting with satisfac­tion the refusal of the 1.1'.1'. Fe­deration's refusal to recognise anybarriers of race. colour or creed,and congratulating this body forrecognising the S.A. Table TennisBoa rd (non-racial) as truly repre­sentative of this country; ('5) thatS.A .S.A. submits a comprehensivememorandum to the InternationalOlympic Committee, who haveasked for a full report on theSouth African situation. All na­tion al bodies were asked to supplyrelevant da ta fo r inclusion in thememorandum;(6) "that this con­ference believes that it is the in­herent right of every South Afri­can to compete on merit for theright to represent S.A. in interna­tional sport and calls on all orga­nisa tions controUing internationalsports to affor d representationonl y to bodies truly representativeof all South Africans."

Mr. Brutus fur ther informs methat his body will take active stepsto implement the resolutionspassed, and already he has con­tacted the Boa rd of Control andMr . Worrell to can off the tour ofthe all-black West Indies team.

This issue has caused an uproaroverseas as well , with men likeDr. Cheddi Jagan and MacDonaldBailey campaigning bitterly againstthe tour.

As "World Sports" in a reportfrom the West Indies states, theteam will be expected to acknow­ledge South Africa's apartheidlaws , play "Co loured-only teams"and stay in "Coloured-onl y"hotels.

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ANC Plans Anti-PassCampaign

JOHANNESBURG .The African National Congress

announced here last week that ithas set uo an Anti-Pass LawsPlanning Council to direct thestruggle against the pass laws andta x increases; and also an Econo­mic Boycott Plann ing Comm itteeto recommend ways of furtheringthe eco nomic boycott campaign.

CAPE TOWN.FOLLOWING Golding's pe-

tition to the Group AreasBoard a~ing for th e exclusionof Indians and Chinese froman Indian-owned cinema inAthlone, the Board has nowapplied the ban to all cinemasin that area.

The oetit ion was submi ttedostensibly to protect the inte­rests of the owner of the Re­gent Cinema, but thi s cinemawill also no w bave to refuseadmission to Non-Colouredpatrons.

A sign outside this cinemasays: " We regret that owing toa Government proclamation wewill no t be able to issue ticketsto ou r Indian , Ch inese andAf rican patrons who have sup­po rted us in the past."

Africans have been bannedfrom Coloured cinemas undera previous Group Areas pro­clamation.

Other members of the execu tiveare Messrs. B. Huna , and J . Moro­long.

Windhoek because it was not inorder.

TOLD TO RECORD"He added th at I should ta pe­

record every thin g, the treatment Igot in Tsumeb, conditions in jail,that there was DO justice in Tsu­meb and that the people aresometimes sent to jail withouttrial; and send all tbis to theUnited N ati ons. I was then sentback to pmon until January 5when I was brought to Ovambo­land."

Mr. T oivo , acting throughfriends, has also taIc.en legalopinion on his treatment in SouthWest Africa.

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cused me of attempting to breakjail. The man in charge of theprison supported him, saying thatI had spent the night banging thedoors of the cell. The magistratethen sa id I was supposed to be inprison for hav ing left fo r CapeTown without authority and thathe would send me to Grootfon­tein jail if I did not obey hisorders. I said I only wanted mypass bac k and refused to sign therece ipt unless it was re turn ed tome with the rest of my property.

"The magistrate then told methat the pass had been in his pos­session and he had sent it to theChief Native Co mmissioner in

CAPE TOWN.

THE' ina-ease in taxes for Afri­cans and th eir extension to

women would mean an increase inmalnutrition and infant mortality,said a resolution adopted at theannual conference of tbe CapeWestern ANC held la st Sunday.

The conference was a ttended bya large number of delegates fromall over the western Cape, includ­ing Paarl, Worcester and George.

47 observers also attended.

UNITED FRONT

"Let us make 1959 a specialanti-apartheid year," said thereport by the Exec utive. "Le t 115forge a great united front of allenemies of apartheid which willdeliver the final knockout blow toopnresslon,"

Resolutions discussed at theconference called on the Africanpeople in the Ca pe to intensifytbe struggle against the pass laws,condemned the increase in Africantaxation and the deportaion ofAfrican leaders, and demanded thedropping of the treason trial.

BOYCOTf

The resolution on the economicboycott reiterated the decision ofthe national conference in Durbancallins;: for the implementation ofthe bovcott of all Nationalistcontrolled products and said that" the decision of the Pan-AfricanConfere nce held in Accra to boy­cott all South African products in­dicated that many countries, de­pendent and independent. theworld over a re on our side."

The conference was opened byMr. J. A. La Gurna, president ofthe S.A. Coloured People's Orga ­nisation, and messages of supportwere received from the C.O.D., theBlack Sash , S.A.C.T.U. and theCivil Rights League.

Mr. Zoll y Malindi was re­elected president of the WesternCape, Mr. S. Makheta , secretar y;and Mr. A. Sibeko, treasurer.

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WINDHOEI.MR. Herman Toivo Ja

Toivo, who was arretedin Tsumeb, S.W.A., wierthis month, has been sem toOvamboland under police es­cort and told that he will notbe able to leave there agail.

A lett er written by Mr. Tlivofrom the Tsumeb jail (New o\geJanu ar y 8) said that he bad eenarrested for trespassing on nineproperty and lat er had been toldby the magistrate that be wiuldbe removed to Ovamboland uderescort.

New Age now learns f ro i acorrespondent in Soutb VestAfrica t-ha t Mr. Toivo was hutledon to a bus and taken to Oam­boland by the police. In Ovanbo ­land he was told by the NtiveCommissioner that he would notbe allowed to leave the area a ain.

TRIED BY CHIEFThe Native Com missioner then

sent for tbe chief to whom Mr.Toivo was banded over for trialas a "troublesome man , a eOOIagainst them who was aimm attaking over the leadership of thetribe."

" At the chief's kraal I wastried," Mr. Toivo told our ceres­pe ndent , " but it seemed thai theChief found me not guilty. Nver­theless, perhaps to please th: au­thorities, I am not allowed tJ goto my own kraal an d have reenplaced under the supervisioi ofone Karnbuta."

He was supposed to ap pea be­fore the Native Commissiont" onJanuary 15.

APPEAL T O M .PoSMr. Toivo has asked the \fri­

can representatives, Mrs. Bllin­gcr and Mr. L. B. Lee-Warde, toraise the matter in the Hom: ofAssemb ly.

Before beinj deported to Ovam­boland, Mr. "oivo spen t severaldays in jail arTsumeb. When thetime came fr his removal toOvamboland b was asked to signa receip t for te return of his pro­perty taken w.en be was arrested.but he refusee to sign because hispass was not among the articleshanded back ) him.

CIEEK Y"They thentold me tha t I was

cheeky," Mr. I'o ivo said, an d thenext day he Nas brought beforethe ma gistrate

"This time tbe magistrate ac-