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Council , we are about to seeanother all-out attack on themeagre rights of the Af ricanpeople.

"All democrats should see inthis threa t an assa ult no t onlyon the voters a nd representa-tives concerned , but on every-one fia:hting Nationalist dicta-to rship. "

Mr. T ur ok said that altho ugha machine of oppression, Par-lia ment was an important in-stitution. What happened thereshould be of the greatest in-terest to all and nobody couldtake it lightly.

"The whole pro posal re pre -sents the greatest retrogressionin political rights that the Afri-Can people have sulfered since1936," Mr. Turok co nt inu ed."The African people must p ro -test at th is fu ture of serf domwhich is being hatched forthem."

fessors, some of them officialsof SABRA, have been holdinghush-hush meetings with cer-,tain Africans on the Rand.

They ha ve been careful to st ressthat they are meeting Africans notin their official capacities or asmembers of SABRA but on anindividual basis.

In -all about ten SA BRA men,most of them professors f romSte llenbosch, Potchefst roorn, Pre-tori a and Bloemfontein Universi-ties, and among them ProfessorsOl ivier, C illiers, Coetzee, Ro ss,Kruger, T omlinson and the Re v.Brink, Moderat or of the DutchReformed Church, have beenmeeting Africans for private talks .

Their questions seem aimed attesting the attitude of the Africansto apartheid and the NationalistGovernment , th e influ ence ofCommunists within the AfricanNational /C ongress, the workingsof the Congress and its relationswith .zhe other Congresses, particu-larly the Congress of Democrats,African discontent and grievancesan d the shape of events to come.

A tfumbcr of the meetings took.place in the offices of Johann es-burg's Non-European Affairs De-partment , and the D epar tmen t'sMan ager ac ted as go-between.

Those interviewed do not seemto have minced words on theiratti tud e to the Nationalists andthei r res ponsibili ty for the strainedrace rela tions in th e coun try.

AND THEY MADE IT PLAIN(Continued on page 3)

SOUTHERN E DI TI ON T hursday, J anua ry 22. 1959

Vol. 5. N o. 14 Registered at the G.P.O. a~ a New~paper

BEN TUROK

Mr. Ben Turok, Afri cans' re-presentative for the WesternCa pe in the Provincial Council,in a statement to New Age,said:

"I n the rem oval of the Afri-can representat ives from theSenate. Parliament and un-doubtedly the Cape Provincial

have been able to focus atten-tion on all the gross injusticesthat have taken place in ourcountry."

In ma ny instances where theUnited Party has been afraidto disclos e any co rrup t prac-tices by G overnment officials,the African representatives hadbrought th e glare of publicityupon these malpractices, Mr.Lee -Warden said.

"The government doesn'twant its dirty linen washed inpubl ic."

S B PH FS.H 0B-BUS T L ST • NS

JOH..

2 NEW AGE, THURSDAY . JAN UAR Y 22, 1959

Afro-Asian UnionsAkira Awai, ' secretary-general

of the Council of Ja panese TradeUnions, which claims a member-shi p of 3,500,000 wor kers, flies toPek ing on Janua ry 27 for a ten-day visit, during which he will dis-cuss pla ns for an Afro-Asianlab our conference in Tokio inSeptember. If it is held tradeunion leaders from India, Ce ylon.and Indonesia will be among thoseinvited.

Large Crowds 01Drop The Trial

MeetingsCAPE TOWN.

La rge crowds gathered at m eet-ings in var ious spot s in the Penin-sula last Sunday to pass res olu-tions calling for the dropping oftJ.."" trp~qn" t "'~ Q l n .1J..: L .... - - ~ ,\.u~ ......-'\.I. ..h ..... 1 "\.1-1 1.11 . .. .tl J( 4.l IS now Inprogress in Pretoria .

300 people met in Kensingtonto hear speak ers from the Con-gresses and the Liberal Party. InLa nga 500 people a tt ended, andin Nyanga 900. The Nyanga meet-ing was also addressed by Mr.L. B. Lee-Warden, M.P. fo r theWes tern Cape.

The meet ings were or gani sed byth e Drop th e Treason Trial Com-mittee.

The immediate dropping of thetreason charge and the release ofthe people's leaders was demandedin a resolution pa ssed at a publicmeeting held by the Langa Branchof t he ANC last week.

The meeting condemned thepass system for men and womenand demanded the re peal of theUrban A reas Act. A resolutionwas also passed demanding higherwages for all and equal pay forequal' work irrespective of colour,race or creed.

Next Sunday. Januarv 25. theNyanga N o. 2 bra nch of the ANCWill be holding a mass prayermeeting call ing for the droppingof tho treason trial. The mee tingwill take place at th e Kraaifon-tein terminus at 2 p.m,

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spective view an d see if theycannot resume fro m what tookplace in 1848. Thousand s ofAfrican people were systemati-cally killed by the boers atBlood River as they tried in vainto defend their country frombeing stole n by th ese wes ternmonsters. I wonder if it is nothigh tr eason for a so-calledleade r of the people to stand forviolence and bloodshed.

ShaH we Afrir:ln D ~ ~~ ; ~~ or_ 'f ~ .. ...- ....... J.\.. U ll1 .... 't.1

I!' ,"·h~ our people to rememberwhat took place in 1838? No.the leaders of the A.N.C. areadvocating non -violence which isthe pol icy of the A.N.C. knownto every volunteer in the lib e-ratory struggle.

ANC Conference thisWeek

CAPE TOWN .The annual conference of the

Ca pe Western ANC will be heldIl1 2nd Avenue, K ensington. thisSunday morning, January 25, at9.30 a .m.

Mr. Zolly Malindi, president ofthe Region , sa id th at am ong themost important items to be dis-cussed was the intensification ofthe struggle against pa sses forboth women an d men in the Wes-tern Cape. Delegates were ex-pected from all over as far asGeorge.

Other matters include the econo-mic boycott and inc reased taxa-tion .

The membership of the Regionhad increased considerably sincelast confe'rence, M r. Malindi sai d.A good turn-out was expected.

:'rHANKS to New Age, one boy who was recruited in theTranskei for work on a farm in the Kinross area, Trans-

vaal, has been set free, sent home and thus enabled to continuehis school career.

This boy was only 13 years old. We do not know all thedetails of his recruitment, but he can consider himself luckythat he is not slaving his guts out on the farm for a beggarly£4 a month.

But what about the other boys? The boys who wererecruited at the same time "as this boy? The boys who areIrecruited week in and week out to satisfy the labour-hungerof the mines and the farms?

The scandal of child labour must be brought to an end.The Government must take steps to see that illegal recmitingpractices in the Reserves are stamped out, and that anybodywho entices children away from home or school to work onmine or farm is heavily punished.

But the scandal of child labour is not purely the fault ofunscrupulous recruiting agents. I t is also the fault of our wholeeconomic system, which condemns the mass of the populationto life-long slavery below the breadline. Many parents areforced to consent to their children leaving school and takingon work because they desperately need the money, or becausethey simply can't afford to provide for their ohildren at homeany longer.

The reserve system itself, reinforced by the pass laws, ismerely a device to keep on hand a supply of labour for themines and the farms, and is the main factor responsible forthe fact that the wages of African mineworkers are todayscarcely higher than they were 50 years ago,

Only the ending of the capitalist system can finally end theoppression and exploitation of the working people of thiscountry. But in the meantime, if every wage earner were to gethis £1 a day, the scandal of child labour would quickly befinished off.

MAYIBU YE!!B. NAIDOO

Secretary, NIC Youth Con-gress , Clairwood Branch, cloNatal Indian Congress, 3rdFloor, Lakhani Chambers,Savil1e Street, Durban.

Who PreachesViolence?

Dr. Verwoerd, so-called PrimeMinister . of Soutb Africa , isbusy canvassing and organisi nga militan t body of Nationaliststhat will be so ar med as to over-flow the South Afr ican riverswith blood from the he arts ofthe oppressed people of thecountry who are clamouring forfreedom . equality. racial ha r-mon y and a peaceful democraticSouth Africa.

He is appealing to the Na-tionalist puppets to take a PF -

ber as early as 1918 there wereonly simple headmen who weredemo cratically elected. But nowI understand th at K aiser Matan-zima. a chief of Cofimvaba, adistrict separate and apart fromCala, is being forced by thegovernment on the people ofX al an ga as the ir chief.

1 can see no adva ntage forM atanzima exce pt bein~ Iuadea tool because ~~ hIS lust fo rpowe r. I ~ 0ften wonder whetherM at a nzirna, who holds a Un iver-sity deg ree, thinks it's sensible tohe made a tool against his ownblo od - a Government stooge.

If it is a fac t that M atanzimais do ing this, I am sure thereare many who are as surprisedas I am .

I wish to warn Chief KaiserMatanzima the t he must not tryto shove himself in matters out-side his jurisdiction, and if theGov ern ment has appointed h imChief of Cala as well , he mustnot enforce an y law or re gula-tion on the people of Cala espe-cially those resident at Em nxe.This has a danger of cu lminat-ing in the deportation of thosewho re iect Government Acts Ifit therefore does en d in s~meneople being deported that willbring serious repercussions.

TOTSIENS KUBUKELT.Cala (Xalanga), Transkei.. ... ...

"An Eye-witness," Cala:Please send your name a nd ad-dres s, not necessarily for publ i-cation but as a sign of goodfaith .

A Challenge toYouth

I wou ld like to issue afriend ly chal lena e to allSouth African Youth Con-gres ses: either ANC or NIC.

My challenge is, that theC larrwood branch of theNatal Indian Youth Con-gress will enrol more mem-bers and sell mo re copies ofNew Age during 1959 thanany other branch .

If other branches wish toaccept our challenge, we willgladly com pare resul ts . withthem in December. But be-fo re accepting our challenge,we wish to issue this warning:we are determined to workday and night, and not tostop, unt il ever y street andfactory in Clairwood is orga-n ised,

Our talget for the new yea ris 3.000 paid up members anda sale of an equ al number ofNew Age.

New Brighton ANC YouthCongress, wat ch outl!

We intend not only catch-ing up with you, but surpass-ing you.

AF R IK A! !

LS. AFRICA

CALA CAN DO WITHOUTA CHIEF

In various newspapers it hasbeen stated that Governmentagents inclu ding the Magist rateat Ca la have visited the reservesad joining the village an d variousothers in their endeavour to en-force the Bantu Authorities Act.

The peace-lovi ng and Christianpeople res ident at Emnxe havebeen the victims of these mea-sures. All their lives they havenever had a chief. I can remem-

And by wholehearted sup -port we mean you should sellthe paper, find new agents forus . talk about the contents tofr iends and, above all , send uswhat we cannot do without-MONEY. We manage to sur -vive only through the su ppo rtof tbe pe ople and each indi-vidual must do what he or shecan.

ENSURE T HAT NEWAGE CONTI NU ES TO D OITS JOB FOR PROGRES-SIVE SOUTH AFRICA ! !

SEND US YOUR DONA-TION TO-DAY! ! !LAST WEEK'S DONATIONSCane Town:

Literature 4s., B. S. lOs.,H. T . l Os., Bliz lOs.• Mica £1,T. S. £10, I. K. £1. Naomi andJack £25. R. M . £1 9s., M. G.4s. 6d., F . W . H . 9s.• Dora £5,B. C. £3, Rex £1, S. K . £30,Miss W. 6s., Mr. G. £1.Johannesburg :

B. H . lOs., F. £5, Collections£2 5s., Debora 15s.Durban:

Durban J. N. £6. A. N. £ 1.T. C. lOs. 6d.. Nad. £2. Alan(jumble) £4 15.,.GRAN D TOTAL: £103 18s,

same utterances when made bythe ANC are not. In fact, fromthe tone in which the latter isreported , the converse seems tobe the case.

This inconsistency lay s itselfopen to the interpretation thatMr. Duncan either does not likethe COD. or tha t he is enviousof the fraternal bonds whichex ist be tween the C OD an d theANC and wishes to see themdissol ved; or both.

11 is strange tha t th e sameissue of 'Con tact' as that Inwhich Mr. Duncan's comments .appear conta ins (Page 8) a sub-leader, which J applaud, in whichthe policy of a Johannesburgnewspaper, "The World," is cas-tigated. It states:

"The paper has for some timespecialised in attacks on theAfrican National Congress. Noneof the attacks have been under-standabl e. Yes, We mean this .N one of th e att acks have meantanything. One is left with theimpression that 'The World' doesnot like the ANC. But why, andwhat the ANC bas do ne wrong,has never been clear."

Could this not be sa id to betrue of 'Contact's' attitude to-wards the COD?

ALF WANNENBERGCa pe To wn .

FOR AT DE PEOP FSPARLIAMENT

THIS week ou r Parliament.o pens, It is probabl y one of

the most unrepresentative pa r-liaments of any count ry. N otonly a re the Non-White peo-ple s enti rel y with out di rect re-presentat ion , but the Govern-ment even represent s a minorityof the White secti on.

It may be the last session inwhich the African representa-tives take their scats and, whoknows? their Coloured counte r-parts may shor tly follow intheir footstep s. .

This is the sort of Parliamentwe have at the moment. Whatwe want is the sort of Parlia-ment which is truly democratic-truly representative of allsections of the people. A

.Parliament where everyone isable to vote for any candidatethat is nomi nated.

This is the aim of the Con-gress movement. New Age isthe only newspaper which givesits wholehearted support to theCongress movement. T hereforesurely, as democratic SouthAfricans (and thi s appeal isdirected onl y to them). ourreader, must give their wh ole -hearted support to New Age.

For some time pa st it has beenMr. Pa trick D uncan's policy toattack the COD in the columnsof 'Contact.' Contained in thismagazine of .Qecember 27, 1958,is a featurette in which he seesfit to make al1egedly "fair com-ment" concer ning th e memoran-dum sent by the COD to theAccr a co nfere nce -- commentwhich consists In little mot c thanpetty sc olding at the me of aword.

Tn the light of att acks madeby Dr. Julius Kiano and Mr.Tom Mboya, upon certain preva-lent the ories regarding the futureof Aft ica, he maintains th at theCOD slipped up badly when itcal1ed upon the conference todeclare that " the future ofliberated Af rica lies in multi-racial societies, in which everyminor ity people will be entitledas of right to all the hbertiesand privileges of the citizens ofa dem ocratic state."

Now the use of the expression"multi-racial" (which Mr. Dun-can criticises) by the COD is, inits context, by J)O means ambi-guo us: it is used with the samemean ing as when emp loyed byChief Albert Lutuli at the ANCannual conference, at which,under the subheading of "Multi-racial South Africa is the aim,"the same issue of 'Contact' re -ports him as saying:

"We work for the creation ofa corporate multi-racial (myemphasis) society in whic h thecrit er ion of recognition as acitizen will not rest on class orracial considerat ions but on aloyalt y to a multi-racial SouthAfrica on the basis of democraticun iversal suffrage."

The underlying motives whichhave caused Mr. D uncan to com-ment as he does do not emergeclearly from what he writes .Wh at does emerge, however, isth at whereas certain utteranceson the part of the COD arecau se for adv erse comment, the

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COURT ACn ONM ca nwhile one of the 13 Jo-

hanncshu rg per sons mentioned bythe M mister o f Bant u Adrninstra-tion and Development as havingheld mixed pal ties a t which liquorflowed and "excesses' were com -nutted in his home has served onthe M "li ste r a letter of demandfor £5,000 for defa mation.

Mr. Norman Levy has alsoserved a lerer o f demand fo r£5,000 on " D agb ieek ," th e Afri-kaans Sunday newspape r whic hpublished a story under a scream-ing headl ine "Red BreedingGrounds: H appenings at MixedParties" on its front page Sun daya week ago.

The "Dagbreek " report sa id theauthorities believe both theLiquor Aet and the ImrnoralitvAct are violated at some of thesegatherings where Whites and Non-Wh ites are present.

.So un der cover of stoppingmixed socials the Min ister is hack-ing away a t the rights to pol it icalassociation of a prepared list ofJohannesburg citizens. this list tobe extended when the first initialopposition to the ban has beenworn down .

Like his predecessor, D r. Ve r-woerd, Minister De Wet Nel i5tcyinJ: to be the arbiter of whomay say and do what in Johannes-burg. The case of the 13 willprove to be a vital te st issue.

read y paving the way for su rre n-der to the Nats, The C oun cil mustco-operat e. their line goes, becausethe United Pa rt y a lso sta nds fo rsocial segr egation.

There is also the group in theCouncil th at sees the ban as thethin edge of the wedge. Maybethe re. will be only 13 names on thefirst list , says thi s gro up, bu t theMinister Will add to it till the pur-poses of the original wide banhave been achieved. This is thebegi nning of the end.

But bo th arou ps in the Councila re overlooking one vita l thing.The Minister has let slip tha t theGovernmen t is taking actionagainst mixed gatherings be ca usethe Spe cial Branch of the Policesay th ey are a screen fo r "sub-versive acti vit y."

REVISED BANThe deputation that saw the

Min iste r agreed to co ns ider h is re-vised ba n o n mixe d part ies at cer-tain specified homes. The new bani'i now awaited.

One group in the Council is al-

Then the h umming and hawingstarted and finally came the newstha t SAB RA had found a "publicrelations officer" with " influencewith educated Bantu" to do theinitia l lia ison WOI k fo r them. H ISnam e was not disclosed.

Mea nwhile the sp lit betweenthe 'Ca pe a nd Transvaal wings ofSA BRA deepened.

The North has on the who letagged along beh ind Minister Ver-woe rd a nd his policy and the Na-tive Affairs Department edict isperfectly clear: mixed gatheringsare against G overnment policyand ap ar theid principles , a nd con-sultuuon with Africans io; the rno -nopolv sol el y o f the Native(Bantu) Aftai rs Depa itruen t (whichof course listens to those fewtrrbal snoke...men who have beentaught to SdY only what the G ov-ern men t wants to hear).

Meanwhile, beh ind the scenes.the auiz of African leaders of allshades of opinion goes on apace.

Some SABRA official s hereseem not to know ab out thesetalk-s. Faced with a decisionagainst a conference with Non-Whites. have the professors founda back -door method of consulta-tion'! For it is clear they have re-al ised they mu st try to find outwhat Africans are thinking.

Mr. Dennis Bru tus and Mr. G. K. Rungasamy, secretary a nd presidentrespect ively of the newly fo nned multi-racial South African Spor tsAss ocia tion, wh ich was formed at a conference held in Durbanre cently of representatives from organised units of soccer, weight lif t-ing, athlet ics, boxing, table tennis and softba ll. T he objects of the newasso ciation are toco-ordinate the work of various sporting bodies and

to oppose "a ny and all form , of ra ce discrimination in sport."

Minister, Johannesburg has hadthe ball neatly under con trol. Th eMin ister even admitted to theCouncil's deputation last weekthat his first no tice of prohibitionwould have outlawed ALL mixedgatherings of a political, social orot her nature. A t th is stage, theMinister seems to have assured theCouncil deputation , he wants toban only certain mixed gat herings .

questions on apartheid, the BantuAutho rities sys tem, the chiefs, re-presentat ion of Africans in Parlia -ment, and his opinion of ChiefLuruli .

" Is C ongress Communist?", wasa not he r qu est ion. Mr. Moses sa idIt was not. " I am a member ofCo ngress myself. What we a refigh tmg for a rc OUI righ ts in theland of our b ir th. "

It IS nOW eight months since theAfrikaner professors. domineesand others at SABRA'S 1958Stellenbosch conference hit on theidea of a conference WIth Non-Whites "to seek racia l harmony:'T he SABRA decision was takenthe month after th e general elec-tion and the April 14 an ti-Na tion-a list demonstrations in the coun-try.

Jt was not long bef ore a deep splitdeveloped within SABRA on thisissue. SABRA da re meet on ly "re-sponsible Bantu." said some. NoCongress leaders. no "agitato rs,"no one in the Treason Trial, noteven Chief Lutu li, no anti-Govern-ment leader " .. (and which Afri-can lea der worth his salt is nota nti-Govcrnment?)

Other voices said if SAB RAhoped to achieve anything itwould have to leave the choice oftheir leaders to the African peo-ple and not handpick them.

Jo'bu g CouncilMeetings Ban

. Citizens Must Make Their Voice HeardJOHANNESBURG.

GIVEN half a chance theCity Council here will

cave in on the issue of mixedgatherings which Minister DeWet Nel wants banned.

Lee -Warden's letter and the presspublicity had already promptedhim to put Veldtman on the trainhome two days earlier.

FARMER'S CASEIn a reply to Mr. Lee-Warden,

the farmer sa id:" It is evident that th is boy was

legally attested unde r contract .." I must place on record tha t I

refute a ll the allega ions mad e tothe press. We do not possess, neverhave possessed and never will pos-sess a sjambok on my fa rm. I haveem ployed la bo urers fo r manyyears and have never had anycompla ints a bou t their treatment.

"This bo y never complained tome or m y manger that he was notsa tisfied with conditions."

But on Saturday last week,a beaming Mrs. Mtekeli toldNew Age in Cape Town: "Myson is only 13 years old . I amoverjoyed he has been setfree."

ABRA PROFS. HOLD HUSH·U H TALKS WITH AFR C N

Mines BallenonAfricanMiseryJOHANNESBURG.

T he number of Africans em-ployed on the go ld minestota lled 329,000 in Decem ber- the h ighest yea r-end figureever reco rded.

R easons given for th e in-crea se in the labour force a re:

1. The grea t inc rease inpopulat ion f ollowing tbe intro-ducti on of Western medicalpractices.

2. Growing un employment.3. The present low level of

bas ic commodity p rices whichhas led to reduced export in-comes in African terr itor ies.

4. The desire of the Africanfo r the benefits of the Westernway of life.

5. The drought in Africanareas, and the faU in woolprices, lo whiclt 'na3 led .to..moreBasuto com ing to the mines:"

6. The spread and greaterefficienc y of influ x control.

first ne ws his relatives had hadsince h is disappearance.

The leiter was sent on to Mrs.Mtekeli Veldtrnan 's mother, wholives in Wi ndermere, Cape T own.

Veldtrnan's mother took thele tter to Mr. Lee-Wa rden , NativeRepresen tative for Cape Western.who wrote to th e farmer, tbeNat ive Commissioner and theDist rict Commandant of Pol ice atKinross.

(Co ntinued from page I)TO THE PROFESSORS THATT HEY WILL NOT PLAY BA LLWITH THE NATS.

A t o ne of the se series of talksth e pro fessors were asked wh ythcv did not go direc t to theleader s o f the Afri can Nati on alCongress. T hey repl ied that Con-g tess lead ers were on the list ofAt ricans to be co nsul ted . Theymen tioned the names of ChiefLutul i, Messrs Oliver Tambo,Duma Nokwe, Nelson Mandelaa nd others.

One of the Africans quizzed bythe SABRA men 1110st frequentlyseems to have been Mr. T. Moses,member of the Eastern NativeTownship Advisory Board andmember of th e ANC.

On one occasion he faced fiveprofesso rs and the DRC Modera-tor. the Rev. Brmk.

H e talked fre ely on the miseriescaused Af: icans by apartheid.But what of apartheid when pro-pcrly applied. he was asked? Whatof to tal apartheid?

"Well." said Mr. Moses, "totala pa l the -d would be impossible toestablish because it would meana state within a state, and nei therthe Europeans nor the Africanswould agree to th at sta te ofaffai rs."

Mr. Moses faced and dealt with

H UE AND CRYNew Age published the story,

fo llowed by the Sunday T imes .T he polic e and the Nativ e A f-

fa irs D epartmen t seem to havetaken no acti on a t all. But thefarmer, obviously disturbed by thehue and cry, bought Veldtman arail warrant and put him on thetram back to his grandmother in,the Transkei.

A letter from an attorney de-manding that Veldtman be pro-duced in Johannesbura by 5 p.m,on Friday, January 16 was servedon the fanner last week, but Mr.

TREASON FUNDNEEDS £75,000

JOHANNESBURG.'THE Treason Trial Defence

Fund bas set itself a newfund-raising target of £75,000.

",We really cannot tell how The Minister "is thinking up amuch more money will be new formula for banning mixedneeded ," a spokesman of the parties an d the City Council isFund to ld New Age. T hat de- trying to decide whether it willpends on how long the trial of co-operate or not..h .., .,r , 'l."'l'l the second trial Deputations and protests from~Tthe-il~lasCSincc the arrests I citizens du ring the corning periodof the 156 South Afric ans of will he organ ised to try to get theai l ra ces in December 1956 the I Council to stand its ground,Fund has paid out £80,000 In Up to now in the battl e of thelegal costs and welfare for the @:========::=:::::::::::=::::::::::===:===:=::jllil Joha nnesburg Council versus theacc used persons an d their farni- • --------------lies and dependa nts. i

Canon Collins' Defence a ndAid Fund in Britain h as alsojust launched a new appeal andset a new ta rget fo r fund rars-ing, The Fund's public. appealappearing In many Ica~lDg"Bntish papers calls the tri al cat-and-mouse misery ."

" For two yea rs the agony ofthe accused, and of all thosedependen t on them. draggedon' the n the prosecu tion foundth~t if the present ind ictmentwer~ persisted in , acquittalwould be inevit able. So whatdid the prosec,ution do? It with-drew the indictment- and let Itbe known that a new indict-ment would be d rafted and th ewhole torment started all o ver...agam . .

An en la rged list of distin-guis hed sponsors of the. Britishappeal is most [rnpressive andincl udes such names as DameEdith Sit well. P rofessor ArnoldToynbee, Laurens van del'Post. Lord Altrincham, JohnnvDankworth, Sir Jacob Epstem ,Sir Julian Huxley. HenryMoore William Plomer andthe B'ishops of Birminghaman d Manches ter .

A recent editorial 10 theLondon "Star" says "elementsof vendetta entered the case."It a dds "This strange and slo wmeandering of th e process o fjustice in South Africa wo uldbe a matter for scarifyinglau ghter except for two thi ngs :the acc us ed need money fo rtheir defence and their familiesneed support."

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JOHANNESBURG.THIRTEEN-year-old Veldt-

man Mtekeli, the school-boy taken from near Umtatain the Transkei to work on apotato farm in the Kinrossarea, should be back homewith his grandmother by now.

Seven days after NEW AGEbroke the story of the di sappea r-ance of this yo ungster, the farmerhad put Veldtman on the t ra inback to the Transkei, H e had beenissued with a fr ee rail warranthome, given money for food , andplaced in the care of th e con duc-tor. With Veldtman were 18other labourers whose labour con-t racts had expired.

DISAPPEAREDVeldtrnan's disappearance from

his home near Umta ta took placeon November 17.

On that da y he set out as usualfor sch ool at Tabasa , outsideUrntata. He never got to school.He an d other bo ys fell into thehand s of recruiting agents and nextthing they knew they were on theirway to the Kinross farm.

On December 29 Veldtmanmanaged to wri te a leiter home tohis grandmother, WIth whom hewas livin g in the T ranskei, Theletter , writte n on pap er torn fr oma school exer cise bo ok, was the

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His comment that he woulcbe spending some time underthe wing ot the Native AlbinDepartm ent was greeted at thepress conference by a grea troar of laughter.

them jf he ha d yet been askedfor his pass he pro duced hi!American passport and sa id:" I think there IS none finerthan thi s."

Up to now Mr. Gordon hasbeen very cautious in his optmons on South Africa andapartheid. He hasn't seereno ugh to judge, he was say-mg last week. He had foundpeople friendlier than he hadexpected and has been givenV.J.P. treatment.

Mr. Gordon's tour is beingmanaged by Amencan Embassyand United Sta tes Info rmationService officials in whosehomes he has been living dur-ing his stay here.

Part of the programme ar-ranged for him by the N.A.D.has included a visit to ho usingprojects in various townships.He will probably be takenround some Reserves.

These are )amon's selec-

tions for the Tvet.:

Wyn berg Handcao B: DEEPFR EEZE. Dinner, Garrett' sselected.

Wyn berg Stak e! KNI GHTED .Dan ger, Studci t Prince.

The magistra t. upheld the de-fence argument bat the three hadincited no one a break: laws oroverthrow the Government buthad been demaruing a wage of £ Ia day. not fron employers, butfrom the Goverrment in the formof minimum wa.e legislat ion

JOHANNESBURG.

MR. William Gordon, theU.S. Negro editor who IS

visiting the Union fo r a, fort-rught as part of his Af rica tour,has a brimful, crowded pro-gramme but managed to sand-wich in two brief visits to theJohannesburg offices of NewAge last week.

Mr. Gordon is City Editorof the Negro-owned "AtlantaDaily World" in Georgia inthe Deep South ' and rose inthe newspa per wor ld fromcopy boy to edito r. He is tra-velling in Africa on an OgdenReid fellowship and has al-ready visited a dozen countrie son the continent.

He was "Exhibit A" forAmerican freedom , he told ameetin g of the Pre toria Politi-cal Study Group (It was at ameeti ng of the Polit ical StudyGroup last year that ChiefLutuli was assa ulted.)

M r. Gordon gave a pressconfer ence soon after his ar-rival in this city and it wasattended largely by Non- Whi tejournalists. Asked by one of

u.s. NEGRO EDITOR VISITSNEW AGE OFFICE

G·QVT. APPEALS I OFSINCITE'MENT CASE

BLOEMFONTEIN.FIVE weeks after three Bloem-

fontein Congress leaders werefound not guilty and dischargedin the incitement case here arisingout of the April stay-at-home, theSpecial Branch served on themGovernment notice of appeal toa highe r court again st their acquit-ta l.

T he th ree are Mr. Cale b Mo t-sha bi, Mr s. Jan e Motshabi andMrs. Ma rth a Mohla koana .

After a four-day tri al in De-cember in the Regional . Courtthey were iound not guilty of in-citing 'Free State Africans againstthe pass laws , mast ers and ser-van ts' laws and the G roup AreasAct.

On Janua ry 13 Special Branchdetectives ca lled at the homes ofthe three at 11.30 at night to servethem with copies of th e Govern-ment not ice of appeal.

During th e Regional Court tria la string of police witnes ses gaveevidence against the accused. AnAf rican constable in the SpecialBranch who had taken not es ofthe speech by Mr. Motsabi at ameet ing on April 9 sa id undercross -examination that he hadtaken notes only of what he con - Ju ven ile Handcap : F RENCHsidered important. He said he had DRAMA. Darter , G rabbo.unde rstood very little because" the accused could not expresshimself well. " Tested in court thiswitness did not manage to writeout his own notes when they weredict ated to him.

A second constable said he had Owners' Handrap B:writte n down only what his inter- ROCKET. Daiger , Wavy.pret er had said to him. He pro-duced a copy of New A2e dated 3-Year-0Id Staes:April 2 which he sa id was the Danger, Tauru,"poison" which led the accused toconnnit the crime.

All three accused gave evidence.Nothing was said a t the ir meet-

ing about pass laws and theG roup Areas Act , th ey told the Ke nilwor th Stales: T ROPICALcourt , because the location autho- PARK. Dan ge, Jeni na.rities had warned them not tospea k on any subject not men- . . .tioned in th e permit to hold the Juvenile Mal den Pla~e . NORTHme eting. \ WIND. Dange, Sir ~al1ace.

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FREE TO DREAM

Mayor's Meetings WillBe Combined

CAPE TOWN

The City Council's General Pur-poses Committee has decided tocombine the two public meetingsrequested by voters and ratepayersto protest against the threatenedremoval of the Municipal Fran-chise and against job rese rvation.

Th e Mayor of Cape Town wasasked to call the meeting againstjob reservation by 131 citizens, andla ter a deputation representingmunicipal voters asked the Mayorto call a similar meeting on theproposed removal of the Co loure dvoters from the common munici-pal roll.

The meeting will take pl ace inthe City H all on Tuesday, January27, at 8 p.m,

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waitini: for and began forming the con.iu unes ha ve announcedpeople's communes like mad, "free b read " and many of them

have gone on to list from sevenNOT BIG ENOUGH to 14 items of "free supply."

WHAT seems to have hap - One commune two hours outpened, as nearly as I can see from Shanghai listed: Free meals,

it, is that the farming cooperatives fully cooked and supplied aroundwere doing pretty well , and had got the clock in pubhc canteens andthe peasants used to working to- out in the fields; free clothing, together and sharing the profits. But the limit of the ration of cottonWith last winter's big drive to goods, all tailored to demand mtake Kea at -hun willi tears

in her eyes. 'At each step childrenalso trotted around her holdin gon to her gown.

'·1 want you to so to Mazeka ,our chairman, if they have nottaken him. If they have, try tosee Mthimkhulu the treasurer orany of our men who is not in.It's difficult to say who's beenspared. Tell them about whathas happened. I am not certainwhat they will do with me. Theyshould try to enquire after methis mo rning. Tell tho se remain-ing to keep up their courage.Convey my greetings to all thecomrades. Have I forgotten any-thing? Anyway, you know wha tto do . . ."

" F inish up now Mazolo," avoice boomed from the crowd.

"A minute."They were silent. They em-

braced and kissed each other. Hepicked up the children and kissedthem in turn. He picked UD hisbattered suitcase with twineround it. "Till we meet, Doris."He put his thumb up. Doris andthe two older children re turnedthe salute. Vera added. "Mavi-buye" while her mother was tooovercome to speak. Doris stoodlike a lone tree on a barren hillwith birds settling on it. She sawthe red tail-light disappear roundthe bend. David kept saying,'ji-i-i-m-o-o-o woto.'

It was after some time thatDoris. returned to the house. Ithaunted her. It stood like abuilding hastily evacuated in aretreat. She did not tidy thehouse until midday. She went tothe, ruffled bed s, pondered overthem , then slowly made them up.She gath ered the littered papers,picking th em up one by one.Among them was a torn piece.Sh turned it over: " The (lreaterisis Ahead" by Mo ses M. Ko-tane. She read the remainin g bit.

Awarded 4th Place

in the NC1V Age

Short Story

CompetitWn

NEW AGE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1959

KNOCKBy T. H. GWALAhouse outside the borough, onhis own piece of ground , out ofhis own savings. He was nowbeing charged with occupying ahouse without a permit. Law-rence' s boss had thrown thequestion at him as he was aboutto leave the office, "Can a manbe charged with occupying hisown house?" Lawrence had notrepl ied, He had just laughed andwalked out of the office.

By degrees drowsiness came.Images now came to him in dis-jointed hazy forms. This went onuntil he was in a deep slee p. Hewas now in a nice early morningsleep. His mouth opened by de-grees until it was agape. Hesnored softly and at regu lar in-tervals. One arm was hangingloosely on the bed and the otherone was supporting his head.

In a state of half conscious-ness he heard a knock. It grew inintensity, rapping at the door.T here was an an noyance unifiedwith a sou r chill in his stomach .He stretched his arm tow ardsDoris who was fast asleep andshook her by the shoulder.

"Lawrence, 'You are not going

to work so early?" Doris asked,yawning and rubbing her eyes,

"There's a knock at the door,"Lawrence growled, slipping hispyjamas on.

"But who's disturbing otherpeople at this hour?"

"It may be the son of the devilhimself. Put on tho light:'

She felt for tho box of matcheson the table.

" Good heavens!" he ex-c I aim e d. Three-thirty." Hereached fo r the door and openedit slightly, just enough for hishead to peer out. He shut hiseyes instantly in the glaringtorch-light. He felt his heartpounding violently. A cold chillwent down from his spine to hisfeet. His stomach went ice-cold.The torch shone on his faceagain. All the eyes were gluedon hi m.

"Are you Lawrence MfanefileMazolo?," the tallest of the sixmen asked .

" Yes." His voice was dry andbeads of perspiration were form-ing on the fringe of hair on hisforehead.

Doris heard. She jumped downfrom the bed. She was next toLawrence, he r hands tremblingon the gown.

" Can you read ?""A littl e.""Do you want li~ht?""Yes." Lawrence now stood

like a prey amidst the hounds."Here you are."One of the men started whist-

ling an unintelligible tune andflashed his light all over thehouse.

Lawrence's hands trembled asbe held the paper. He foughtwith himself trying to master bisnerves, but the tremor went on.H is knees went cold and buckled.

The light moved from line toline, wor d to wor d. stopping andmo ving with Law rence's face.All was a jumble of words. Heonly made out " H igh Treason. . . Search Warrant . , C hiefMagistrate.' His mind had goneblank. Not tha t it had ceased to

rtTHAT December mo nth was a

particularly ho t month.Despite its intense heat and con-stant ra ins Lawrence liked it. Italways brought h im int o con tac twith many friends at picnic s onthe seaside. The smell of the sea !T he continuo us stretches ofwhite sand on th e beaches andthe breaking of the waves on theshore left that longing for un -known far away places.

The heat had 110t ab ated onelate afternoon wh en Lawrence,with a coat on h is arm and aloosened neck-tie, dragged hisfeet home. The powdery earthwent up with each footstep leav -ing a hazy. trace in its wake.Lawrence was a very tired man.Clients ha d been streaming intothe office the wh ole day, assist -ance for bail; bee r classified"s hi meyana" and other diversecomplaints. It had been writing ,writing all the time ; turning un-intelligible stor ies into sequenceand sens e and putting everythinginto shipshape fo rm for his boss.

Doris stood at the door lulla-bying the baby in her ar ms.Lawrence love d Doris and herfour children. He was regardedby neighbours as an ideal familyman. Doris was not a complain -ing type of wife . She understoodtheir difficulties and always as-sured Lawrence that thingswould take a turn for the better .one day.

Lawrence placed the smallparcel he was carrying on thetable. He threw himself on thesofa after relieving Doris of thebaby .

" Oh Lawrence, dear," thedimples showed on her cheeks,"we shall have a splendidChristmas this year." Lawrencereturned the compliment with atired smile. She opened the par-cel in excitement. A pair ofPanther shoes, a blouse, a pairof stockings, chil dren's toys allcame out. "Lawrence!" She flungherself on the sofa with out-spread arms and embraced himkissing his cheeks. Her tenderfingers caressed his chin. Shecalled the children playin2 onthe verandah. "Come and havea look at what daddy broughtfo r you ." The children jumpedabout, each fondling a toy. "Say' tha nk vou' to daddy. " Therewas a spo ra dic 'thank youfather.' David, the little boy oftwo, stamped on the floor withone foot.

After supper Doris talkedabout a few other things child-ren should have for Christmas,the painting to be done on thewalls. Her sister-in-law with herfami ly was paying them a visiton Christmas D ay. They wouldhave to take her to Durba n onBoxing Day to show th e child-ren the sea.

"I know, I will be tax ing youunduly Lawrence." Lawrencegave her an offende d look.

" But you know I can't affordth ose things."

Dor is fel t ashamed tha t shehad asked him for all tha t. Sheknew how hard Lawrence wastrying .

" Don' t take it to heart, dear.You know how I am at times."

Lawrence looked at the arti-cles scattered on the table. Therewas a long silence.

Sleep was difficult on such anight. The baby kept crying andkicking at the blankets. Law-rence lay on th e blankets with-ou t his pyj am as on. He gazed atthe dark ro of , images chasingOne another in h is head.

Legal wo rk was interestingand complex. The court was astrange mill an d it was theirduty to save people's nec ks fromthis mill. Many unusual storieswere heard there.

To morrow they were loin2 todefend in a very interesting case.A man who had been orderedout of town built himself a,

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Pas5es And Protests In Evaton TREASO TRIAL OFF TOBAD START

NOT AFRAID

By ALEX LA GUMA

*T HERE'S something I seem tomiss thh week. Strike m e,

it 's that seat in P retoria!

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blame them for wanting to linetheir sigh ts on games against all-black te ams only.

But instead of telliD2 Frankieboy to stay away, wouldn't it bemore effective if he did comeand was made to kick u p a fussof his own right here un der thenoses of the officials of a part -heid sport?

*I F sick ly lib era lism triumphs inSouth Africa it will mea nself-destruct ion for Europeans,suicide for the Coloured peopleand enslavement for the Nativesunder a chaotic policy of terror.- Dr. Otto du Pl essis.

Come, come, OUo. T hat's notsickly liberalism you're tlllkin2about, it's apartheid.

*P EOPLE arc now belly-achingabout the Cuba n Cas tro oilpurge.

Referring to police affidavits onthe danger of demonstrations nearthe court, Mr. Jumce Rumpffsaid: "I'm not afraid of the safetyof the court-not for a moment,"

The Attorney-General . Mr. W.J. Mackenzie , who made a specialappearance in tbis tr ial to dealwith the change of venue applica-tion. argued that the court had nopower to change the venue. Thepo wers of fixing the venue of thespecial court had deliberatelv bee ntake n out of Its hands a nd veste din the Governor-General.

If trouble broke out. he said. it~~'~~J~ t'~ !~:: !!:~ ~~J~~, vru;t;ClJ-tion and judges were to blame .

APPLICATION RE FUSEDOn Tuesday morning the appli-

ca tion fo r the change of venue toJoh annesburg was rejected. Rea-sons WIll be given later .

Mr. 0, Pirow intervened to say :"T he big cities are nothing shortof dynamite. The public sa fety ismore important than the conve-nience of the accused."

hours travelling time daily. Therewould be extr eme d ifficulties inthe way of the accuse d and co-conspirators con sulting with de-fe nce counsel.

There were at least two courtsin the Johannesburg SupremeCour t su itable fo r the tr ial anda ble to acco mmodate the 30 ac-cused without the Governmenthavmg to spend a sing le shillingon aIterations.

T he physical and mental strainof the acc used during the long-drawn-ou t pr oceedings would beintensi fied by lo ng hours of traveleach day.

Mr. Maisels then dea lt with thepolic e reasons against J oha nnes-burg ali a ven ue an d Mr. JusticeRumpff interj ected: " Isn' t that thereal point?"

Mr. Rumpff added there neednot be demonstrations near thecourtroom but the mere presenceof hundreds of people who hadcome to see their leaders wo uldcreat e a strain. For trouble tooccur there need be on ly on edrunk in th e crowd or o ne police-man losing h is temper.

M r. Maisels rep lied that ap artfrom the opening day's troublethe preparatory examination hadgone on for ove r a year withoutthe re being any incidents . Therewas great public interest in manycrirrunal cases and this was naturaland the reason why the co urtsheld open doors.

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saw skulking around tbe MichailKahnm in the Table Bay har-bour? Was he looking for trea-son or for caviar? Will he findanv? Don't miss the next episodeof Th e Kreepy Kraw ler KaroundT he Ka linin.

*IN the U .S.A. a judge sent twolittle Negro boys to the re -

formato ry because they kisseda little white girl during a gameth ey were an playing together.

Pretty Grimm, huh?

l *I NUrntali. cadd ies at the H ill-side Golf C lub dem anded an

inc rease in thei r fees after twolions were seen near the club-house and a lioness padded dow nthe fairway.

I'm sure they're entitled todanger pay of at least £1 a da y.

*THE anti-racial spo rtsmenhave their guns drawn over

th e proposed visit of FrankWorrell and his West Indiantounng team, and we cannot

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reserves. We hope that the day iJnot far "'hen we shall rid our-selves of the passes."

PROPAGANDAin the townships the propagan-

da by the Municipal police is "Itis no use refusing to take refer-ence books: your leaders. !l.1;;.Viola Hash~ ;;ha Mrs. Mabel Bal-fO~lI:; have already taken out"'ooks."

When I interviewed Mrs. V.Hashe, she said: "Mrs. Balfourand I still stand by our resolutionnot to take reference books. Verysoon tbe lies of the Govem mentagen ts will be exposed and thosewho have been bluffed will knowthe truth. The fight against passesis continuin2 in Roodepoort."

(Continued from page I)and were bringing the accuse d toPretoria. The court adjourned tillafter tea only to bear then thatthe poltc e transport had developedengine trouble and broken downen route.

Th e cou rt adjo urne d once moreand this was just a" well becau sethe lo uds peaker ar ra ngementswere a lso faulty on th is first day.

RECORD TIMEJu st before lunch a grey " ny-

lon " pick-up va n roare d to a stopoursi de the co nver ted synagogueand. smging Congress son gs, the21 missing accused clambered out.The police van had done the tripin record time-25 minutes.

" We roll ed a bout in th ere likesacks of mealies," said one.

T he po lice veh icle, broughtalong to rescue the accused stand-109 on a street cornet ncar thestation fro m 7.30 a. rn. to 10.45a .m. and introduced by the p olic e'driver with an apologet ic "Sorrythis is the best transport we havefor yo u," had twice developed ig-nition trouble. but a ga rage onthe Pretoria road had finallyrighted it.

By 2. 15 p.m, the court proceed -ings could at las t set moving.

CHANGE OF VENUEAll er the formal constitution of

the special court, Mr. MaiselsQ.c.. leader of the defence team.at once launched into an applica-tion for a change of the trial ve-nue to Johannesburg.

Not one of the accused was re-sident in Pretor ia , he said. On anave rage the accused spent six

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U P M:Y A L L·\E .y .. . .~ . . '

IF any of yo u Northerners atethinking of coming to bask

in the sun on the Pcrunsulabeach es you'd better make itsnappy. It looks as If this willbe the last summer before th eyring down the aparthe id cur tainon what's left of our openbeaches.

Anybody Who is lookillJ!: for-ward to mi xed bathing will haveto do it beyond the three-milelimiL

*AND speakine about the sun,the Yanks are tryiq to sell

Mr. Mikoyan some super sun -tanlotion for use by Russian _pace-men.

*OVERHEARD in the WhiteHouse: Wby the heck

should we bother how far intospace those Ruskies aet? We stillgot Brick Bradford.

*W AS that one of our localcloak-and-dagger boys I

"Many of us," said ene ~!oeriywoman, "are fOl'ce~ :u. lake thesepasses much 3';-ainst our will. Weknow the evil the passes havebrought to our homes, But whatcan we do? If we lose Our jobswe will have no places to stay andwe will be compelled to 20 to the

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who went last week to draw theirallowances found themselvespushed by NAn policen.eu f romthe pension queue right into thereference book queue. Some, re-alising they were being tr ick edinto ! ' lk ll ' l,; out reference books.forfeited the ir allowances andwent home.

The th rea t to pensioners isqui~ b~~nt: " No pan book. nol -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~--~~~~~~~~~~~-pensio n! '

Couples wanting to ~et marriedmust produce passes first .

Loudspeakers are bein~ used totell the women to take out passbooks before January 20. andpressure is being put on employers10 send thei r worke rs for thebooks.

Policemen in flying squad ca rsare stopping women 10 the streetsand demanding passes from the m.

SECOND ATTEMPl'T his is the second attempt to

for ce the women of Roodepoortto carry passes. The first wasdu ring December when over fourda ys the NAD pas s-issumg unitman aged to issue only about 90pass books and then left the area.At that time the unit concen-trated on the ho usewives in thetownships.

When the unit returned ea rlierthis month notices were sen t toem ployers in com merce and ofdomestic workers telling them " thelaw requires every Native overthe age of 16 years to be in pos -session of a reference book . ....- which ot course is not yet truefor women. I

Housewives have been orderingtheir domestics rc take out refer- Ience books and those who lIaverefus ed han Dean te ld tb y willbe paid off.

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"The Fight Goes On," Say Leaders

Roo e~oort omen Bullied-TD Take Passes

From Ilebert ResbaIOODEPOORT.

THE Go~rnmeDt is tryingevcrythiJg short of brute

force to coeee African womenin this little West Rand townto take out sasses,

Women od age pensioners

Six women were arrested fO' anti-pass demonstrations in Evaton last November. They were first bailedout at £3 each. Later when they appeared in court they were found guilty and fined £30 each. An appealhas been noted. \

Some of the demonstraors who protested when the pass-issuing teams arrived in Evaton, are seenin this picture sent to New Age by a reader. The Woman In front was one of those arrested.

The women who took )asses in Evaton had to stand fo r hours in the hot sun and yoUJll: and old,rich and poor, the crippled :od tile blind were Issued with passes, said an eye-witness. Many women faintedin the queues. Y

I "No Pas, NoHouse"Threat to Women

JOIANNESBURG.Officials eny it . but men

bein g eject cr fr om Sophiatown.now proclirned a ",Whitearea." are bina told they willnot get houss 10 Meadowlandstill their wves take out passbooks.

Last weekthere was the caseof Mr. S- - . a carpenter.ordered to ciit his house with-in a few das . He wen t to theResettlement Board to applyfor a housi in Meadowlandsand was toll nothing could bedone for h in until his wife hadpresented hrself to be issuedwith a pass look.

Mr. S-- wasn ' t havinganyth ing of hat. Wh en tackled.the Reset tlenen t Board qu icklycl imbed dowi and denied thatany such cndition had beenmade. Back to the Board Mr.S we r, to be politelytold he shotd notify the o ffi-cia ls immeditely he was readyto move to lleadowlan ds .

In Newclre , it is reported.many worne: have been forcedto take out ,a l iei in th is way.

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Arfb Common MarketlID Arab League Economic

Coureil has decided to establishan uab financial developmentbank It is to work towards anArab cofnmon market spu rred onby fa rs th at the Eu rop ea n Co m-mon Market will discrim inateagairst Arab States.

that I'agy himself had been work-ing h bring about a rising an dinstall a new regime. with himselfat the hea d of it, and had beenrestorng many 'Horthy' fasciststo offce for that purpose.

"It then became clear that hehad ben guilty of something verydiffereit from weakness and vacil-lation the evidence consistedlargel -e-as already mentioned-of dceuments bearing his hand-writrre, and fo r th e rest of testi-mony from eyewitnesses -as towhat he was saying and doing atth e vial period. His own explana-tions and den ials in the witness-box, and his attempts to throwthe barn e on others, seem in re-trospet only to make the matterworse

"Tlere it is. It was a sad a fter-math of a cruel and bru tal at -tempt to set back the march ofh.sto r/ in Hu ngary. an attemptwhicr fai led only by a narrowmargo .

"Aiyone who sees Hungary atwork today rejoices th at the at -tempt did fail , and that the coun-try is now building up its strengthagain But any careful study ofthe a ce of Nagy should bringconvi·tion that his prosecutionand ececution were a necessity, re-grettrble onl y in the sense that itis alvays regr ettable to have torake over the past and mete outpunisirnent to those whose guiltis char and whose crimes verygreat'

Orbiting the SlIn

'ie cou ld face...And I feel pretty sur a tha t I

should still hold the same opinionif I had started with the idea. sojea lously cultivated by manywri ters in the West. th at theevents of 1956 were no more thana spontaneous rising of the demo-cratic masses in Hungary againsttyranny, instead of-as I am fullyconvinced after long study- acarefully organised attempt to re-store a Fascist regime in H un-gary."

He points ou t th at Nagy wastried by the rCllUlar courts underthe rl!2ula r procedure--not by aspecial court or under emergencyJaws.

DEATH SENTENCESOf the sentence Pritt says : " I

do not like death sentences; few1eople do, and those few are tobe found almost wholly in thecircles who ar e protesting soloudly against the execution ofNagy.

"But the Courts of almost everycountry would have sentenced himto death . as T have said above, forthe crimes of which he was con-victe d, in the circumstances inwhich he committed them ."

Discussing evidence of orga-nised mas sacres which took placeafter Nagy had come to power,Pr tt says:

"Throughout that time, Nagythe Prime Minister. who shouldhave been working actively tosuppress the massacres, remainedsilent and inactive, doing nothingto prevent them; and at the trial

I he professed to have known no-thing of wha t was happening.These

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dies tour, Mr. Markat Ali, ofVrededorp, Johannesburg, has aninteresting angle on why the WestIndies tour should not be iUP-ported. Here are his points: -

1. It conveys submission andacceptance of apartheid conditionsby the S.A.C.RC.

2. The tourists are open to in-sult and abuse under the variousracial laws of the Union.

3. The tour cannot be a finan-cial success, with only three tests,apart from the total cost of£15,000 for the entire tour, muchexpense will also be ' incurredwhile the tourists are here.. 4. The S.A. Board cannot, as inthe Kenya tour, expect financialsupport f rom No n-European busi-ness-men.

5. The West Indians too shouldrealise th at, by their acceptanceof the tour, they are giving con-sent to racial discrimination.

6. If the West Indians, Whiteand Black, believe in fellow team-spirit, then they should totallyoppose this insult by the Uniongovernment which is not preparedto grant visas to a mixed touringteam.

In summing up, Mr. Ali feelsthat South Africa is now facedwith a grave deci sion--either toaccept the Non-White West Indiestour and suffer racial discrimina-tion, or sacrifice the tour and up-hold and vindicate our honour.

Sound reasoning, Mr. Ali , butthe minds of the cricket adminis-trators have been made up, accord-ing to latest reports, and Worrellwith his twelve Non-Whites willbe here in November, happenwhat may.

• That Mr. Matt October.famed physica l culturist and pro-min ent compere of musical shows,has bee n appointed Superin tendentof the newly built swimmi ng bathsat Athlone, Cape. This has been a

.wi~c and a goo d choice, for Matt'.r .. , -41., 'L cot ....

, .1 ....ell KnOW'll llJffll!gr:C::t ·...(l!!!uAfrica,. in wrestling, cycl ing andsw immmg, and with his versatilitywill no doubt prove a orea t suc-cess in his new post. He is thefirst Coloured man to receive suchan appointment.

That Mr. H. Hendricks.manager of the W.P. cycling andathlet ic team, lodged his objectionsat. the S.A. Athletic Champion-ships in Durban ove r the appoint-ment of White officials to admini-ster the events. T he Board Presi-dent, Mr. E. 1. Haffejee, informedthose concerned that Natal didnot have sufficiently qualified men.thus be ing fo rced into acceptingWh ite help.

• That Mr. Hendricks did notmind having White officials bu tsince they belong to a 'bodywhich does not agre e with ourAssociation, how can we employsuch people? This may jeopardiseour claims for Olympic recogni-tion, he said.

• That Simon Cox Nlapo, inretaining the S.A. Open golf titlefor a score of 272 over 72 holes(16 under par), with the followingscores : - 67. 70, 68, 67, can claimhim self as the wonder golfer ofSouth Afr ica. But for the colourof his skin, he would have gainedworld recognition, for to retu rnsuch brilliant figures on th e in-ferior type of courses Non-Euro -peans play on, is indeed fantasticand worthy of being lauded to thero ofto ps.

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The Professor added that so farno one had flown in a spacerocket and that such a flightwould take place only when therewould be "an assurance that theman would return."

The denial was splashed in theSouth African press even beforethe Landstem was officially on thestreets that week. The paper'sscoop had been killed stone dead.

Asked by New Age for an ex-plan ation, the acting editor ofLand stern said: "We received thestory from our London correspon-dent and printed it in good faith.We have cabled for an explana-tion which we will publish in th enext issue."

Far from apolo gising for ta kingthe public for a ride, however, theLandstem's next issue tried toclaim credit for its slander byclaiming in equally huge headlineson the front page: "Landstem An-ticipates the - Russians with theirown News." The paper tried tomake out th at Pravda had con-firmed the Land stern 's story byannouncing the following weekthat the next step in Russia 's spaceprogramme was to send a mannedrocket to the other planets!

The Landstem boasted of itscanard: "This W:4S tbe first time imthe history of Afrikaans journal-ism that the name of an Afrikaansnewspaper was on thousands oflips in the foremost cities of thecivilised world,"

Pla stic cover - lavishly illustratedThe most useful volume yetavailable on the U.S.S.R.

The Sportsman of the Yearcompetition inaugurated by ourcontemporary, the Golden CityPost has met with a setback. Itann~unced the name of BasilD'Oliviera as the winner of theaward , with Muleya second in thegeneral poll. .

D 'Oliviera was the obVIOUSchoice on merit to receive thissignal honour, and Capetoniansare proud of him, but it is theaward of the Coca-Cola Trophyth at has created an uproar. Thisworld-wide mineral wa ter com-pany has presen ted th e trophytogether with an inscribed wristletwatch, the G old en City Post re-ports.

Cape Town's sporting Council-lor H. E. Parker immediately madecontact with the leading sportsadrninjstrators, deprecating the in-troduction of commercialism intoamateur sports. Full support wasgiven to his views and in no timea telegram was despatched to thePost's headquarters in Johannes-burg, expressing thei r displeasurethat a business house should pre-sent a trophy of this nature. Thecontext of the telegram reflectedthat an award of this natureshould come from newspaper orsports writers as is the practicethroughout the world when mak-ing sporting awards.

The average sports fan, althoughdelighted with the news thatD'Oliviera had won the award,frowned at the prize of a Coca-

Even if the lips were curled with Cola Cup. Could it not have beencontempt. just simply the Sportsman of the

Year Trophy? If the trophv was 1--- - --- - - - --- -presented in sincerity, with no

There remained the little matter business interest whatsoever. thenof the alleged telephone inte rview why the insistence on its beingwith Professor Blagonravov which known as publicised ? Oh no sir.the Landstern couldn 't laugh off, we like our sportsmen to behowever. But still the paper tr ied honoured. but not in this way .to make the best of a bad sit ua- D'Oliviera himself signified . aftertion. . th-e annoupcs> _.....:,a.. hem...:":

" . no.~ WAnt ' th is award to be com -The Landstem ":'Ishe~ to ex- . mercialised. and would definitelv

oress Its regret to him (p] Jf~ssor not accept any of the awards ifBlagonravov) that our London they were to be merely a publicitycorrespoli~~nt attributed all the stunt,news to him The idea of a spor tsman of the

"This was a misunderstanding. vear. mooted by the Post. is aOur representative made use of h ighly commendable one, forth e services of the Russian Embas- some form of recoc nit ion must besy in London and also of persons given to our leading spo rts men ,in West Germany who are in but wh~ not. emulate the systemtouch with the Russians by under- as practised to other parts of thegro und channels and from whom world whe n making this ~hoice?he obtained the facts about Rus- The ballot system as practised bvsia's plans for the future." the Post was fa rcical. I overheard

a remark that one reader filledWhen the !Tuth . go.es u~der; in over ten fo rms with hie; eros"

groun.d. who will brI~ It !o light. next to his "pal." Similarly man vCertainly the L.andstem missed !he readers submitted not one votemark. They printed a story w.hlc~ but many, for a coupon wac; inwa.. proved to be false and didn t every issue from December. T hehave the c~urage to make a pro- aggregate figures in th is poll didper c0!Te.'tion. On ~he con trary, not reflect a high percentage ofthey tried to brazen It out. voting. so that the actual voting

But even though they p ut a wac; unrepresentatiye. .brave face on it. we ho pe th ey To overcome this difficultv onehave learnt their lesso n and won't has to form a Snorts Writers'do it again. A repetition of such Associat ion comprising all sports-incidents might ruin their credit writers throughout the country.for good. who shall be the "ole judges in

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D. Starck. ow ner of the RegentCinema 10 A thlone,

"In terms of the GroupAreas Act , Athlone has beenproclaimed as a Co louredGroup area. especially chosenby the Government as an areawhich will serve as a testingground fo r the applica tion ofthe positive aspec ts of a part-heid . Since it has been ear-marked as the area where theColoureds will be g i v e never y assistance and every en-couragement to develop busi-ness and commercial enter-pr ises amongst their own peo-ple, Athlone sho uld a t thisstage not becom e the gra ve ofCol oured business, as will bethe case if the Kismet isallowed to open under non -Coloured occupation.

"We object to the admissionof Chinese and Indians to thesaid K ismet Cinema which ad-mission is contrary to the pro-visions of the Group AreasAct.

Th e Russians planned to landmen on Venus and Mars in Sep-tember, he added.

From the outset the interviewstruck a phoney note. The profes-sor sounded chauvinistic andaggressive. "Within a year wesha ll be in a position to destroyany city in the world .. Wewant peace but at the same timewe must be in a position to de-monstrate the might of Russia . .The capitalist world will have tobow the knee to Russia before theend of the year because Russia istoday the master of the world."

The professor claimed to speakon behalf of Nikita Khruschov.

ASTONISHED

The press world was astonishedby the Landstem's " 5COOP" andimmediately bombarded Moscowfor confirmation. But the story wasat once shown up as a sordidfraud.

"Highly developed fantasy,"Professor Blagonravov exclaimedwhen told of the interview he wassupposed to have given.

"Clearly the London correspon -dent of Landstern used a hitherto 'unknown achievement of techno-logy enabling him to receive mythought'S by telepathy. I have beenout of Moscow during the last fewdays and gave no interviews toanyone in London over the tele-phone.

"And, as so often happens, thenew 'invention' was imperfect, andthere were obvious distortions inthe deciphering of my thoughts."

Norman a

Res. 69-3337

andstem's Space StoryShot Down Flames

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CAPE TOWN.

T H IS jetition aga inst an In-diancinema-owner in Ath-lone, sulmitted to the GroupAr eas Biard by Mr. G. J.Golding, is an example of theracialist ic outlook engenderedby the Croup Areas Act.

"Sir, ve the undersigned re-sidents md ratepayers andoccupiers in the proclaimedarea of Athlone herewith re -cord our strong protest at theerection of an Tndian-ownedcinema-o wit-by either anIndian 0 European individualor corn pny or both.

"Our eason s for protest ingaga inst nis occu pa tion ar c asfollows:

"The mening of the KismetCmema-built by an Indian.Jeram 1-; name-and to beoccupied either by the Indianhimself rr by African Consoli-dated Tlsatrcs (Pty.) Ltd . willmean th( financial ru in of twoof the resen t cinema ownersin Athloie, one of whom is aColoured man, viz. Mr. John

GOLDI G'S PETITION BASEDT RACI LI5M

An Anti-Soviet Cfnard Exposed ,

For Correrts, Par ties. Peres,

Sports. G eier al G atherings, etc.

CAPE TOWN"'T HE Landstem Phones

Russia and We leceivethe Big News-THE RUS-SIANS HAVE A MANREADY FOR ~PACETRAVEL."

So read the main headline,in huge letters. on th~ frontr age of the Cape TownweeklyDie Landstem last weer.

The Landstem claimed that itsLondon correspondent lad ap-proached the Soviet Embasy withthe request for a telephote inter-vew with either Premier K hrus-dhov or Prof. Anatoly Bagonra-vov, head of the Soviet lcademyof Sciences and an expert en spacetra vel.

"T he Russians there .at theLondon Embassy) quicky hadhim put through to Moscov wherehe conversed with the gnat Rus-sian expert (Blagonravov) 0 bringthis exclusive interview drect toyou," said the Landstem.

A cco rding to the intervsw Rus-via had a lready select.d andsta rted training th e first n an tobe rocketed into space- a 10-yea r-old bachelor named Ivan 'gorsky,6ft. 2ins. tall and weighng ISOlin.

GUINEA PIG"The man will be a guhea pig.

He has already been chos.n fromamong more than 1,00 whonlaced themselves at our lisposalfor the test ," Professor Bagonra-vov is reported to have s.id,

Phone 69·J)28

BIRTHST o PhilpP1. and

daught er . loth well.

SOUND ~STEM FOR HIRE

" Fo r these reasons we pro-test most vehemently aga inst

1lli:=:::::z:::::::=:::::z:::::::~:::::==:::::~:::::::9}the gra nting of a permit foroccupation of th e KismetCinema by a non -Colouredgro up . and we earnestly re-quest the Gro up Areas Boardto refuse to grant such a per-nut or exemption for suchoccupation.

"Sgd. Geo. J . G old in g

find othe rs."

A simila r petition was sub-mitt ed by a body called theCo loured Business an d Profes-siona l Associa tion .

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