Brighton• Telephone wires were cut along

some trunk lines.• The workshop of Memory

Maneli, Kaiser Matanzirna's re­presentative, was completelyburnt down. The damage is es­timated at more than R I,OOO.

Mr. Maneli has been besiegedby his customers who want theirshoes which were burnt in thefire. He also lost all his ma­chines and tools as well asmoney belonging to a man whowas sleeping at the workshopas a watchman.

• Officesat a quarry in the P.E.district were broken into anddvnamite was stolen.

• A'n incendiary bomb wasthrown into the house of Det.­Sgt. G azo causing slight dam­age.

• A petrol bomb exploded in theLocation Administration Officesat East London, burning therecords and counters.

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Some of the sabotage incidentsoccurred while the police wereconducting their raids. Here aresome of the targets :• An attempt to set alight two

wool stores resulted in damageto a number of bales. The woolat the stores was saved fromcomplete destruction by the op­eration of the automatic fireextinguishers.

• Damage was done in a chemi­cal factory.

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Matanzima's Delegation Chased Away

CAPE TOWN SAYS "NO"TO BANTUSTAN

CAPE TOWN.LAST week the people of

Langa and Nyanga showedin unmistakable fashion theiropposition to Bantustan by re­jecting in toto the overtures ofa delegation from Chief Kai­ser Matanzima, led by theChief's brother George Matan­zima,

From the moment that the dele­gation, which included ex-treasontrialist Mr. T. ka Tshunungwa, ar­rived in Cape Town, Langa andNyanga were simmering with ten­sion.

On Tuesday night last week apetrol bomb was thrown into thehouse in Langa in which Matanzi­rna's delegation was staying. Thedelegation were out at the time,but the bomb did considerabledamage in the house and destroyeda number of personal possessions

of various members of the dele­gation.

The previous night bricks hadbeen thrown through the windowof the East Nyanga house of Mr.S. Magwa, a well-known supporterof Chief Matanzima and reportedto be a candidate for the post ofthe Chiefs local ambassador.

On the bricks were written "Sup­porter of Matanzima" and "Youmust part with Matanzima."

Shortly thereafter, Mr. Magwaannounced his resignation fromMatanzima's local committee. Hesaid he had decided to throw inhis lot with the people.

PROTECTIONFollowing these incidents the

delegation was placed under 24­hour police protection. Leadingopponents of Matanzima werewarned by the location authoritiesthat if there was any furthertrouble they would be held re­sponsible.

The threatenlng atmosphere inthe location was intensified whenon Wednesday ni~ht an Africanpolice constable Nathaniel Mag.waca was found backed to deathwith a home-made panga,

Constable Magwaca had wonfame for his brutal treatment ofthe people during the 1960 riots.Recently he had headed a specialpolice unit whose job was to ferretout illegal immigrants in thePeninsula and round them up fordeportation.

REPUGNAN TThe Vigilance Associations of

both Nyanga East and NyangaWest called on the Matanzimadelegation to abandon their mis­sion and go home.

The Nyanga West statement said:'Th e delegation's mission is re­pugnant to all Africans in thisarea, particularly this township.

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On-September 26 the Algerian National Assembly called on MohammedBen Bella to fonn the first regular government of independent Algeria.Ben Bella received 141 votes out of the 189 cast. There were 31 blankballots and 13 no votes. Our picture, taken during the Assemblysession, shows Ben Bella, seated, right, listening to the speech of the

Bone deputy, Mr. Boumaza (standing),

NEW AGE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4. 1962

Johannesburg.

trv in recent years.The Nat tactic is: Call the

fighters for justice and liberation"Communists" or "agitators" andthen proscribe them, refuse themthe rights of citizens, and, if con­victions cannot be obtained, ban­ish them to remote corners of theland. This is the hal1mark of apolice state.

Jew and Catholic, Liberal andProgressive, any who dare tospeak out are called "traito rs" andas such a danger to the state.

If we do not check the marchof Fascism at this stage we willbecome accomplices in its finaltriumph. The concentration campwill be firmly embedded in ourcountry and it will be too late tosay then tha t we ought to havefought for and defended our rightsand not allowed this situat ion todevelop.

Let us intensify the struggle forliberation to ensure that our coun­try shal1 not become a fascist dic­tator ship, but a truly free andnon-racial democracy. Let us say:"FA SCISM SHALL NOT PASS."

M. MOOLLA

CLEAN UP THE JAILS

ON THE ARREST OFNELSON MANDELA

WE heartily agree with the Judge President, Mr. JusticeBeyers, that the horrifying evidence in the case in which

a prison warder was sentenced to 10 years and 10 lashes for.killing a prisoner in his charge calls for a full-scale judicialinquiry.

New Age has been foremost amongst those exposing abusesof this sort in our prison system. On innumerable occasions wehave carried heartbreaking stories about treatment meted outto prisoners in jails. Both at the hands of the warders and atthe hands of their fellow-prisoners, the inmates of our jails haveoften suffered terribly without any redress. Deaths have fre­quently been reported. If the Judge President's outburst lastweek does anything to lessen the incidence of these abuses thewhole 'country will stand in his debt.

However, it should be stressed that the inhumanities whichare practised behind the high walls of our jails are not isolatedevents due to the ill-will of an eccentric warder here or there.They flow directly from the attitudes of White domination andWhite supremacy which permeate every department of official­dom.

It is because Africans are regarded as less than human thatthey are so often treated in this brutal and sadistic fashion bypolicemen and warders, the front-line defenders of White supre­macv. Not until White domination has been destroyed and­White Supremacy attitudes rooted out of our national life willit be possible to guarantee just and humane treatment ofprisoners by poli~e and warders.

The fact that the accused in this case was a Coloured mandoes not invalidate this argument. White Supremacy attitudesinfect all sections of the population and are not a monopoly ofWhites only. Furthermore, the Government has not been entirelyunsuccessful in its attempts to create an army of Non-Whitestooges to do its bidding, despite the fact that the majority ofthe population is against th~~.

Nor should it be overlooked that in this case' the killingoccurred in a farm prison-one of those' institutions which Mr.C. R. Swart proudly claimed as "his baby" when he was stillMinister of Justice. One wonders what sort of supervision canbe exercised in an institution where this sort of assault, as theevidence revealed, is customary when escaped prisoners arerecaptured.

Are all farm jails like this? Only some of them? Must wewait for further deaths before we know?

It is to be hoped that Mr. Justice Beyers' criticisms wiu lead '­to immediate action and that something will be done to put anend to these continual scandals from our jails.

EDITORIAL

When Nelson Mandela wasarrested near Howick in Natal, thenewspapers screamed in bannerheadlines that the " most wantedman in S.A." was in the clutchesof the police at last.

Indignation, sadness, shock andsympathy were the ways in whichthe news was received by oppres­sed South Africans and all thosewho believe in the dignity andworth of man. Indignant that hewas arrested, sad because a friendand comrade was torn away;shocking that a ma n with suchpowers of organisational ability,an analytical mind and a magnetic

~~~~~al}%~ho~~d ~~1~i~~r ~~e~~:and sympathy for one who gaveup a lucrative lawyer' s practice inorder to devote all his time andenergy to the service of his people.

Besides Mandela scores ofpeople have been arrested. Someof them have been convicted andare serving sentences for variouspolitical offences. These deten­tions. arrests and convictions onpolitical grounds have become acommon occurrence in our coun-

HONEST

ARNOL D SELBY

LIFE IN EASTBERLIN

U.P. Ate As Bad'As The Nats,

New Brighton.

Last month, while Mandela anda thousand others were rotting inVor ster's dungeons, Dr. Verwoerdwas busy celebrating what hecalled his 61st birthday-yes, he isnearly It years younger than ourgreatest African Leader! (ChiefA. J. Lutul i),

On the same day Mr. M. Steynwas stelling his U.P. listeners atKloof nol to expect a civilisedpeople to accept decisions of gov­ernments taken for them by tribalheads who rely on the advice ofwitch-doctors.

We, the o ppressed people ofSouth Africa and a thousandwhiles who have their senses inthe right places, say to Mr. M.Steyn•."You and your RacialFederation had better go and joinDr. Verwoerd, and you may havewhat may look like a FederalBantustan or what you will."

To Mr. V. R. Noel, chairman

~~otr~~t ~~~~;e~heL~t~,n'a~e th~r;promi ses. Come and join handswith us in our demand for a com­plete democratic South Africa."

We say to Vorster and Ver­woerd , "No amount of jailingsWIll stop us from demanding R2 aday. No amount of bannings willsto p us from demanding a Na­tional Convention. No amount ofhangi~gs will stop us from de­man di ng one man one vote.

We are neither anti-Nat noranti-Whlte but anti-oppression. Wethe people shall win-not in thenever-never, but here and now!

Berlin.

We are now experiencing thefirst good weather. Because of theram the farmers fell behind withthe harvest and volunteers were~h~le~a:~:stin~elp the farmers get

Jeanette and I both joined thetho usands of volunteers who wentout every week-end to help. It washard work but at the same timegreat fun. It is wonderful to seehow everyone gets stuck in with­out any thought of reward. Every­one had one thought-to get theharvest in. Well, we did and the 1 ----- ----- - - _ _~hole nation seems to be de-lighted.

You should see some of thetypes who make trouble from the

~:s~u~~rJ:kes i~he o[o~~~ ~h~' ~~k~trouble at meetings and demon-

~~h~i~~:s~~ r~~ e ~~t H:~~lj~e~~· i~Fea;~d~i~h~o~Jugb~~~~~r~nd vi~len~~comics and women wrestlers.

The task of these people to dis­rupt the normal life of East Berlinhas been made more difficultthanks to the "Wall."

fuNe~~u~~c~;t:~r~ ~~~ St~~psW~~~can no longer buy up all thegoods leaving nothing for theworkers of East Berlin. Goodswere bought up for two reaso ns:one. to sell them in the West at ~profit and two, to disrupt theeconomy and cause dissension inDemocratic Berlin.

My family and I are keepingw,?1I and send regards to allfriends rn South Africa.

to the masses and hey presto! avictorious revolution is here, Thereis no need or worry as to how tofight for the day-to-day needs ofthe masses.

These views indicate how farsome of LIS are isolated and cannotexp ress the needs of the masses.We forget what White conquesthas meant to Ihe African. Thecore of the African revolutionwhich includes even multi-racialSouth Africa is to emancipate theAfrican people. Dear comrades,study the Freedom Charter!

Last Week's Dona tions:

Durban:Kay 25c, Jonah R I. Gra­

ham R l, Anon R I, Emy SOc,Geo. N. ni, Z.S. R U O, Oddsand Ends R5.74.

Port Elizabeth:Get-together RlO, Sister

R2, Chips R2, Doc R4.

Cape Town:Blanket SOc, Jazz concert

R51.0l , Lonely 66c, HarryRIO" Sticks R6.30. Ur. R IO.

Joha nnesburg:Donation R41. Chinese din­

ner R40, V. & E. R4.

Gra nd Total: R193.66.

of letting a birthday go pastwithout a present. Well,WE'RE YOUR BABY TOO,so just dig into your pocketsand give us a special birthdaytreat for next week.

Let's make next week's do­nations column an extra­special birthday all-time re­cord. SEND YOUR DONA­TIO N TODAY.

I N TWO WEEKS TIMENEW AGE WILL BE

EIGHT YEARS OLD.In these days of press cen­

sorship, threats and intimida­tion, bans, arrests, deporta­tions and the Sabotage Act.that is a record to be proudof.

Any newspaper that sur­vives for eight years underNat police rule is either pro­Nat. harmless or fighting fit.

We claim to fall in the lastcategory. We are figbting fit,fit and ready to defend ourlives against all attacks-butonly so long as you keepsupplying us with the sinewsof war.

We can do the job we haveundertaken to do, and thatyou expect us to do, only solong as you do the job youhave undertaken to do, andthat is keep us well stockedwith funds.

Our birthday next week~rovides you with a wonder-

f~~ ~g~ro~~~rrai:~re~ake upThose of you who have

children would never dream

TRIBAL DRESS A D THEFREEDOM CHARTER

Those who condemn the variousnational dresses reveal a state ofmind indicating lurking doubtsand confusion as to whether thepeople will follow the lead of theirnational organisations in the diffi­cult times ahead of Verw oerd'sfascist state.

A.c. is burt to see a few hun­dred rather than 45,000 peopleturn up at a fancied rally aroundNelson Mandela ,

Can A.c. genuinely deride theAfrican languages such as Zulu.Sotho. Shangaan etc. as tribal andVerwoerdian and yet seek to G. MAHLASELA

~~:~c;~~~~s i ~~eof~~r:c~fr i~aeno~ll~~ Johannesburg.his culture began 300 years beforeVerwoerd.

ha~jl~ ~eol~~re °Ji ve~~gei~a tribal~ Indians in Swazilandorigins than us yet It is acceptableto A.C. that they should have a I notice that the Swazi nation isnational dress, being challenged for drscriminating

Another contribu tor with simi- against Indians (see New Age.lar views makes the mistake of ~~E~:ber 6), We refute this alle-

~~i~~l~~~ti~ha tp~l ic~o n~~~~~csa n~n~ We do not hate anybody in par-

destroys all traditions of national ~~u~:'k:ntri ::'d sar~i ther~t~;~ te~~~

gr~~:~ vacuous are the views of ~~~~s Ofo}he~s~r~fef."b~\ u~~c~n ;~~the third contributor though they fortune seeking.may beguile by their appearance Humanity and personality areof grave seriousness. To him, poli- the main features expected of atical decisions about national cul- refined person. The Swazis are notture and national campaigns are prepared to accumulate trouble-fashions only unpardonable when makers or all sorts of misbehavi-dealing with dress. He docs not our as we have experienced inseem to understand why workers neighbouring countriev and pro-produce and buy anything other vinces.than their workaday clothes. Many of these people do not

He savs the African merely has enter and settle for the purpose offorgotten or half forgotten his developing a particular country-earlier historical backgro ural but in order to make a fortune.whose traditions were ruthlessly The Indians are speaking aboutcrushed and uprooted. Surely, the their assets to the value ofshadow of his While Christian R900.000 which the Swazilandmissionary looms ominously ex- Government sold to the Indians.horting him to cast away and for- Did the Swazi National Councilget heathen pagan ways. approve of this deal?

On political leadership, watch Lingengehis method. He says. define a Emashobeni-Ernuva (Hlatikulu)brave and clear minded leadership Swaziland.

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became active. In March 1961 Iwas elected to the City Council andcontinued to strive for the rightsof my people.

FRUSTRATED" By this time I became increas­

ingly frustrated and despondentbecame the lot of the Non-Whrtepeople was not improving.

"After the May 1961 demonstra­tions I was again ar rested and de­tamed for twelve days without bail.I was feeling very strongly andthis i ~ why I come to stand here.

" I wish to express that my actionwas purely symbolic. The jail waschosen as a symbol. There was nointention of injuring any person.or releasing any prisoners or doingsevere damage to property."

DR. VAN DER ROSSEvidence for the defence was

given byrDr. R. E. van der Ross,Principal of the Battswood Train­ing College. Wynberg. He said hehad known Peake for 10 years.

"He has done a considerableamount of good work, especiallyamong the poorer people.

" He is a person of sincere con­victions and I would say he entersinto whatever he does with anenthusiasm which is marked tosome degree by impetuousness.

'To the best of my knowledgehe has had a difficult time financi­ally and from emotional stresses."

MOTIVEMr. E. Newman Q.c. who with

Mr. A. L. Sachs appeared for thedefence said: "Peake is a man ofgreat genuineness and sincerity.HIS motive was to demonstrate­to protest. He is not a man whoshould be imprisoned for a longtime: '

Sentencing Peake. Mr. JusticeBanks said the public must realisethat demonstrations of this kindcannot be tolerated and must beseverely dealt with.

The judge said that in assessingthe penalty to be imposed onPCJke he would take into accounthis family troubles and his finerecord of service in the navy inthe last war.

FOOTNOTE: On Saturdaynight slogans reading "Long liveGeorge Peake" and "Viva Peake"were painted on walls in the Dis­trict 6, Walmer Estate and Wood­stock areas of Cape Town.

TREASON TRIAL

"In 1955 I was served with abanning order preventing me fromattending gatherings for five years.I was served with a similar orderlast year. In 1956 [ was arrested ona charge of treason, and was com­pelled to attend the proceedings inJohannesburg for 3t years, duringwhich time my family life wascompletely disrupted. because myfamily had to move to ]ohannes­burg.

"In 1959 the indictment wasquashed and the State has failed tore-indict. In January 1960 I againcommenced work and attempted torehabilitate myself and my family.In 1960 dur ing the State of Emer­gency I was arrested and subse­quently assaulted and suffered twocracked ribs and both ear-drumswere perforated. Shortly after. Iwas detained in prison for fivemonths. without any charge beingpreferred against me. I took noactive part which led to the de­monstrations because I was politi­cally inactive before the State ofEmergency.

"After the Emergency I again

In a statement from the dock.Peake said :

"After leaving school I W:l5apprenticed as a bricklayer. In1941 at the age of 18 years Ivolunteered for active service andjoined the South African Navywhere I rose to the highest rankany Non-White could attain. In1945 I was discharged and awardedfour campaign stars and a goodservice medal. I recommenced mvjob in the building trade in 1947and I saw that the rights of theNon-Whites were becoming worse.

" I then took an active interestin politics, and decided to do mybest to better the lot of my people.I joined the Building Workers'Trade Union and was eventuallyelected to the Executive Commit­tee. In 1953 I was a founder mem­ber of the South African ColouredPeople's Organisat ion. By then Itook an increasingly active pari inthe fight for the fights of the Non­Whites in South Africa.

Mr. Sunny Singh, a member of the "Iatal Indian Youth Co ngress, makesa fiery speech at the 'Defend Mandela' meeting held by the Youth

Action Committee in Durban last Saturday.

Peake Gets 4 Years, TwoSuspended, For Bomb

OffenceCAP~ TOWN.

'l'HE crowd in the publicgalleries of the Supreme

Court started clappi ng whenGeorge Peake was led down tothe cells after being sentencedto four years imprisonment,two suspended for three years,by Mr. Jus tice Banks lastFriday.. Peake was convicted of attemp­

ting to cause an explo sion atRoeland Street jail last April.

HID ING NEA R JAILEvidence was given by two de­

tectives that while hiding in someopen land opposite the back doorof the Roeland Street Jail they sawPeake approaching. The detectiveheard the rustling of paper andsaw Peake take the lid off a tin.He had a parcel which he WasSeen to deposit at the door of thejail.

The two policemen jumped fromtheir hiding places and called onPeake to stop. He did so and wasseen to drop a pair of rubbergloves.

Peake said : 'T hat thing can ex­plode." He said it would have ex­ploded in about two hours but hecould render it harmless.

Peake went to the door and tookthe tin, opened it with a centpiece and took out a test-tube con­tain ing a viscous liquid. The tinwas half filled with a silverpowder.

The tin and test-tube were takento an explosives inspector for ana­lysis but exploded seconds afterbeing handed over to him. Nobodywas injured.

JUDGE'S FINDINGFinding Peake guilty of attemp­

ting to cause an explosion thatwould have damaged the jail, thejudge said that had an explosionoccurred it would have blown thedoor off its hinges or a big hole inthe door. Injury could have beencaused by flying shrapnel. thoughthe danger was not great. Thefinding of the court was thatPeake did not endanger humanlife.

Mr. Hani had been sentenced inAugust together with Messrs Ar­chie Sibeko, James Tyeku andFaldeni Mzonke and had beenreporting daily to the police interms of his bail conditions. Thefour men had been convictedfollowing their arrest in a carwhich was found to contain 8,500leaflets issued by the bannedANC.

INQUIR Y

Last Thursday Mr. Ran i wasdue to appear in Wynberg Courtat an inquiry as to why his bailof R250 should not be estr eated,He spent the day in the cells atWynberg but was never called toappear in court. At the end of theday he was set free.

The explanation is that the lawapparently does not provide forconditions to be imposed on con­victed men who are out on bailpending appeal. In addition, thebaiJ conditions had not been en­dorsed on the bail bonds as re­quired by law.

week, was well attended. It re- . . . the fight for National Libe-athrmed its solidarity with Nelson ration."Mandela, "a true patriot and true • Ivan Strassburg (a formerhero of the people." The meeting member of the now banned COD):also called on the Nationa list " Mandela will be truly imprisonedGovernment to release Mandela if we remain passive in the faceimmediately and pledged itself to of his imprisonment. He is notcontinue the struggle for justice irnpnso ncd if we carryon the fightand freedom and to follow the for realisation of his ideals."path set by Mandela. Other speakers included Mr.

MUST TAKE ACTION :i;:rnne:~ I~~II~c~~d P;~si~~~a~fb~s~~• Mr. Asha Ntanga, in a fight- SRC in the Non-European section

ing speech, exposed the evils of of the University of Natal.the Nationalist government and . The meeting was punctuated bystated: "You cannot destroy op- smgrng and the shouting of slo-pression by attending meetings gans, A score of Specral Branchalone. We must take action and men were present and took downwhen we call upon you to be notes of speeches. Also presentready for action you must be was a Special Branch cameramanready to sacrifice. taking pictures of all the speakers.

" Whatever happens in this In addition armed policemencountry," continued/ Mr. Ntanga, patro lled the Square where the"th e world will not blame us. The meeting was being held.N~orou~ ~ wm~~~~~ ~I ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~--~~~~a bloody clash and a violentstruggle, which we have been op­posed to and we still prefer non­violent means. But if aggressioncannot be met by persuasion thenultimately aggression will be metby aggression," cond uded Mr.N tanga,

The following were some of thepoints made by other speakers:

• C. Ndhlovu (SACTU): "Theworkers and the youth should re­member that we are oppressedfirstly as a nation and secondly asa class. Unless the minority gov­ernment is forced to surrenderpolitical power, there will be nopeace between the forces of op­pressor and the oppressed."

LIFEBLOOD

Calling on the workers and theyouths to join the liberatory strug­gle. Mr. Ndhlovu said, "We arethe lifeblood of the country, itsagriculture, mines and transport.United and organised, acting witha single will, we form a mightyarmy that Verwoerd and his sara­cens cannot destroy."

• Sunny Singh (Natal IndianYouth Congress) in a fiery speechsaid that for every Mandelaarrested new Mandelas must andwould arise. "The greatest tributewe can pay Mandela is by con­tinuing relentlessly the great fight

Bail Conditions Invalid,Martin Hani Released

CAPE TOWN.l!R. Martin Hani, who was

out on bail pending anappeal against an IS-monthssentence f~r taking part in theaffairs of the banned ANC,was arrested in Kroonstad at1 p.OLin the afternoon of Fri­day, September 21, whiletravelling northwards on thenational road in a motor car.

The car in which he was travel­ling had pulled into the firstgarage in Kroonstad to fill up withpetrol when a Special Branch carpulled up next to it. All thosetravelling in Mr. Hani's car wereordered to accompany the policeto the police station.

After questioning. Mr. Rani wasdetained. The others were allowedto proceed.

Mr. Hani appeared in court inKroonstad the following morningand was remanded in custody toCape Town.

Mr. T. Mhlambiso, the Presidentof the Students' RepresentativeCouncil in Durban , is seen addres­sing the Youth Action Committee

meeting in Durban last week.

"MANDELA'S ( RIM SRE OUR (RIM SIt

Natal Meeting Pledges Complete SolidarityDURBAN.

"NELSON Mandela's crimesare our crimes. The Na­

tionalists have arrested Man­dela and Sisulu but the peoplewill never lack leadership."declared Mr. Asha Ntanga, auniversity student, when headdressed a mass meetingcalled by the Youth ActionCommittee to record solidaritywith Nelson Mandela.

The meeting. which was held atthe Congress Square. Durban last

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GREATER MODESTYNikita Khruschov, to give one instance, should be

happy to read that portion of the Charter where theUAR leaders have at last recognised that "t he steadilyincreasing material and moral weight" of the Com­munist camp has also helped in creating a new, morefavourable situat ion for liberation movements andsocialist experiments.

Other international factors which, according to theCharter , have contributed in creating this Situationare the successes achieved by the liberation move­ments in Asia, Africa and Latin America; the greatinfluence acquired by such moral forces as the UNand the non-aligned States; and the increased possi­bilities of maintaining world peace. The Charter saidthat the Arab revolution should adopt a new ap­proach to derive the fullest advantage from this newsituation.

The authors of the Charter have little use fordogmas and theor ies "which are at once limited andlimiting," but they firmly hold that "social experi­ences cannot be isolated from each other" and theArab revolution "must by no means deny itself accessto the rich storehonse of experience gained by otherpeoples in similar struggles."

The real basis for every revolutionary action is thenational experience. This, however, does not meanthat all previous theories or the experience gainedby other nations is necessarily false. Such an attitudewould be fanaticism or intellectual adolescence, whichthe Charter reco gnises, the Arab revolution mustparticularly guard against in the present phase.

(Next week: How much democracy?)

lution in the DAR in the background of Egyptianhistory and international developments since WorldWar II.

President Nasser, the Charter indicated, was at longlast getting out of hrspragmat ic eclecticism and acquir­ing the first rudiments of an integrated outlook. Italso gave evidence of greater sobriety than before,less pride in one's own achievements, a new recogni­tion of the international factors which have helpedthe Nasserite experiment, an increased willingness tolearn from other people's experiejtces, a fresh aware­ness of the desperate need tor popular participationin addition to the already achieved but inert popularsupport, and a stronger commitment to socialism.

NASSER

The Nat ional Charter itself, though too heavilyweighed by words, was a remarkable document, bothfor its content and form of expression. Draftedpersonally by Nasser, it is said, with the help of asmall group of close associates (Minister for Presi­dential Affairs Aly Sabri, Minister of Labour KamalRifaat, editor Hassanein Heikal and some Universityprofessors), it read more like an ideological manifestothan a programme of economic and political reforms.Vague as far as the futur e constitutional set-up of thecountry is concerned, its autho r (or authors) had;;hieved a fair degree of precision in ideologicalorientation and had tried to place the socialist revo-

MORE IN:nGRATED

What is even more important , its formation waspreceded by a radical land reform ; nationalisation ofbanks, insurance companies and all the bigger indus­tries; election of workers' representatives to the boardof directors of every company; distribution of 25

per cent of profits of everyenterprise among its employ­ees; and the adoption after athorough discussion in aPreparator y Committee ofthe principal that democracyin Egypt can only be estab­lished by first drawing a lineof demarcation between thepeople and their enemies­the expropriated feudalistsand the former owners of thenationalised ban k sandindustries.

In the 10 years since Egypt threw out King Farouk and hisfeudallandlords, Egypt has advanced a great deal but the mainbasic proble m of poverty, unemployment and a low standard ofliving has yet to be resolved. The first few years of the Republichad seen a rap id increase in the development of nation al bour­geois cap ital, side by side with the development of the publicsector. But this kind of development had not been able to takethe coun try very far on to the road of concrete prosp erity. Theliquidation of the big landlords had ended feudalism but notpoverty in the countryside, though the peasants were indeedgetting a larger share of the nat ional product than before. Inthe industrial sector, the growth of national bourgeois capitalhad tended to further the growth of powerful elements whichsought not only to grab state power but also to enlarge the areaof profitable exploitati on. It was also found that such capitalistelements had secretly establish ed links with international capita land rea ction- and this became a threat to the security of thestate throug h subversion. '

It was in this context that President Nasser launched hisprogramme of nationalisation and socialisation last year. Themeasures proposed by Nasser were extremely radical and revo­lutionary and constituted a major landmark in the Arab world.It was the first conscious and deliberate proclamation thatsocialism was the means by which poverty of the masses could be ended. The political struc­ture through which this politi cal goal was to be achieved was not as democr atic as many wouldhave liked , but President Nasser's proposals are an advance on what had obtained in the past.Greater democ racy, at this stage, it was feared, would provide greater oppor tunities to reaction­aries to subvert the State.

We publish an analysis by a SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT of the National Charter for­mula ted by President Nasser in May this year in which the socialist objectives of the UARhave been set out, together with a political framewor k throug h which this advance was to beachieved. This National Charter has been aptly described by the crypt ic but pointed comment"MORE SOCIALISM, A LITTLE DEMOCRACY."

'r HE ten-chapter, 140-page document, ·wbit btook Nasser four and a balf hours to read,

was presented before an assembly which -isunique in Arab history. Called the NationalCongress of Popular Powers, it is the first Arabbody to be elected on a functional rather thanpurely territ orial basis and consists mainly ofrepresentatives of trade uaioas, peasant co­operatives, professional syndicates and studentunions.

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In a second Bechuanaland courtaction, this time instituted by thefirm Levitt Stores in Francistown,the magistrate heard argument andevidence and then reserved judg­ment.

Appearing for the B.P.P., Mr.Douglas Lukele argued the juris­diction of the court, also the cor­rectness of the citation of thewhole B.P.P. and not just theFrancistown branch and finallywhether the boycott should giverise to a course of action.

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; Never SeenABodyiI So Mangled I~ A PRISON warder, April ~§ Johannes Jasper, was ==§ sentenced to 10 years impri- §== sonment and 10 lashes last::§ week when he was found §§ guilty of culpable homicide. §== The case arose from the::§ death of Felapi Makesi, an §§ African convict who escaped §§ from. a group of convicts §== workin g on a farm near the ==§ Klein Drakenstein farm §§ prison. §§ Evidence was given that §§ wh: n he was recaptured, Ma- ~== kesi was given the water ==§ treatment and severely §== beaten, mule-kicked and ==~ tramped upon by Jasper . His §== body had been smashed and ==

~ cr'1h~~ctor , giving evidence, ~§ said that apart from train §§ crash victims be had never §§ seen a body so mangled as §§ that of Makesi. I §§ Sentencing Jasper, the §§ Judge President, Mr. Justice §§ Beyers, said he had been hor- §§ rifled by the evidence in this §§ case. The facts cried out for §§ a proper investigation of the §§ Prison Service. There should §§ not be just a departmental in- §~ ~uir¥ but a thorough judicial ~== mqui ry, ==§ After all the talk of hu- §§ manising the jails and rehabi- §§ litating prisoners, there was §§ now this case of a man who §§ had been crushed and muti- §§ lated. Others who were irn- §§ plicated had not even been §iCh arged. i

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a doctor and as a man of thepeople and the friend of the poormade him respected, loved andgrievously mourned.

N ew A ge joins with Benoni inmourning the death of Dr . Ansary.

INcou~tir~~~a~~n~he a~isp~~~e~~tween the Bechuanaland People'sParty and the Matante-Motsetebreakway group orders the latternot to take possession of or usethe three motor vehicles of theBPP pending a cour t decision onthe rights of the parties in thisdispute. The interim interdict willoperate till the next session ofBechuanaland's High Court whichopens in the third week of Novem­ber.

ABOVE: The burnt-out huts of Mr. Mantiweni's kraal. It is alleged that the kraal was razed by the police onthe instructions of Chief Gaogata of the Amadiba tri be. BELOW: Mr. Mantiweni's belonldngs lying on theopen veld before they were removed by five police vans from Amadiba Location in the Bila na district to

Flagstaff where Mr. Mantiweni and his family have been deported by Chief Gangata.

own pockets for furniture instal­ments so that families would havesome furnitur e in their homes. Hesaw to the feeding of indigents,paid for the new fencing round theMoslem cemetry, was always oncall for people in trouble and of­ten collapsed from exhaustion inthe homes of patients because no 1---- - - ------------­one's troubles were not tackled byhim whatever the time of night.

To the people of Benoni Dr.Ansary was the legend of the truefreedom fighter and they said soat the funeral and as mournershave visited the horne of hisyoung widow and two small child­ren to pay their last homage

During his last illness prayermeetings for his recovery wereheld spontaneously on the EastRand like the one organised byformer Brakpan ANC members.

Orphaned as a young boy Dr.Ansary was helped by his strug­gling family to qualify as a doctorin Bombay where he was a well­known footballer in his studentdays. He started practice in Benoniabout six years ago and his devo­tion, self-sacrifice and sympathy as

Benoni M urns Deathof Dr. Ansary

on the whole of the AmadibaTribe.

He states that there is a "seeth­ing cauldro n" in Pondoland andthe "people's anger is at breakingpoint."

"The people have decided neverto attend meetings of BAD andBotha Sigcau in future and blood­shed can be expected at any time,"he states., In the meantime widespread sup­

port for the stand taken by ChiefSabata in his row with the ChiefMagistrate of the Transkei (seeNew Age last week) was expressedby local Pondos who visited theDurban offices of New Age duringthe week.

They see in Chief S~bata every­thing that is lacking in their ownchiefs. As one Pondo put i t :"Chief Saba la has given the Tem­bus their manhood, whilst Sigcauand Gangata make us hang our'hea ds in shame • • •

"This will not be for long. ThePondos are a fighting people andthey will sweep aside these sell­outs," he added.

BENONI'S location and theAfrican, Indian and Col­

oured communities all aroundit are in mourning for Dr.Yacob Ismail Ansary, tbe 33­year-old Indian doctor whodied last Saturday after aserious illness.

For Dr. Ansary was more than adoctor, he was community leader,.helper of the poor, the man towhom all in trouble turned, well­known sportsman, ardent supporterof the Transvaal Indian Congress.

Before his final four-day comathat led to his death, Dr. Ansarylay in a hospital ward worryingnot about his health but his pa­tients in Benoni location. Patients,some bedridden and crippled, lefttheir own beds to be carried tothe funeral as weeping people ofall races walked behind the coffinsinging softly in the rain andcarrying candles in paperbags astheir final tribute.

Dr. Ansary healed the sick butalso paid the rent of strugglingfamilies, forked money out of his

DrivePolice

N.R. Basket Ma ersMust Also ove

LUSAKA.Northern Rhodesia's own bas­

ket-makers belonging to the samesect as the people thrown out ofKorsten, in Port Elizabeth, earlierthis year, are being ordered tomove. The community lives in theillegal compound of Marrapodioutside Lusaka.

Marrapodi is to be pulled downearly in 1963 and the 900-stronggroup has got to go. In their pre­sent horne they have Kimberleybrick and also tin homes, electri­city from their own generators,communal kitchens and water­pumping equipment.

A scheme to resettle them on aspecial area in Matero has fallenthrough because it would costnearly R30,OOO. Too much,' saysthe Lusaka African Affairs Com­mittee.

"Mass arrests being carried outat Amadiba Loc.e-Chief Ganga­ta's location. Many tribesmen havebeen rounded up-a huge camperected near Makwantini's Store ..

" 1 am in the net at the time ofwriting. Am under heavy interro­gation at Bizana. I don't knowwhether I will be detained or re-leased. .sc~~:o.li~e.' ,a ctivity is on a large

signed: "A"Two days later, in a further re­

port from Amadiba Location, thecorrespondent reports that he hasbeen released after spending anight in prison.

Confirming the report of large­scale police activity, he allegesthat on September 25, a kraal be­longing to Mr. Sitysinye Manti­wern was razed to the ground bythe police. He also alleges thatChief Ganga ta was present duringthe burning of the huts.

Before Mr. Mantiweni's kraalwas burned down his family and ,belongings were moved in ninepolice vans to Flagstaff.

Boss Paid PasslessWorkers R2 A Week

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TH;~~e is : nfa~:JI;;e:hiSbi:~~workers at R2 a week because heknew they were passless and couldnot report him for infringing theindustry's wage regulations.

This was discovered by theSouth African Congress of TradeUnions during an organised driveon the Witwatersrand for in­creased wages.

Employers pressed to pay moresaid the workers did not havepasses and the factory was doingthem a favour by employing themand paying them at all. But theworkers insisted their wages be in­creased. After SACTU negotia­tions, the employer paid up soonenough when threatened with areport to the Labour Depar tment.

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On the following day, healleges, hundreds of cattle werecontiseated a t a dipping tank nearMakwantini's Store. This was inlieu of tribal fines of RI3 .00 pertn besma n which had been imposed

Naw AOa, 1'HUaSDAY. oetOSS 4. 1962

accepted, let it be known thatIhey are 'accepted' only atIhe point of a gun.

Proclamation 413 givespowers to Native Commis­sioners, and officers of theS.A. Police to arrest withoutwarrant any person for ques­tiorung and detain him for aslong as he (the Commis­sioner) considers necessary.Legal representation is for­braden unless the Ministerhimself agrees. Not only theNative Commissioners butthe members of the DefenceForce are empowered toarrest anyone suspected ofcommitting an offence underthese proclamations.

And an otlence would in­clude attending any meetingnot specifically permitted bythe Native Commissioner, ormaking any statement, evenverbally only, which mighthave the effect of subvertingthe authority of the state.

In addition, the Chiefs notonly have powers to deport,confiscate stock, burn huts,fine, flog, etc., but that theyare doing so.

OPPOSITIONHow would it be possible

under these circumstanceseven to whisper that you donot agree with Bantu Autho­rities or any other govern­ment measure? The amazingthing is that in spite of allthis the people still show somuch opposition.

Mr. Louw cannot point 10a single fact which provesIbat the Bantustan policy hasbeen well received by thepeople of the Transkei;whereas we can point toplenty which prove exactlythe opposite-that the peoplehate and detest the Bantustanpolicy and all that goes withit aod are determined to fight

against it to the bitter end.

DURBAN.

L1~~ r:o~~o~ P:er:police camp has been erectednear Makwantini's Store inthe Amadiba Location wherehundreds of tribesmen arebeing rounded up and de­tained under the State ofEmergency which still existstoday after nearly two years.

Amadiba location, it will be re­called, is under the chieftancy ofGa ngata, whose home guardswere involved in the attack againstMr. Magaduzela Bentswana whichwas tollowed by the death of Mrs.Etha Mdatya. (See New Age lastweek.)

CRYPTIC NOTEIn a cryptic note from Bizana,

a New Age correspondent states:

MRunft~i~ ~~tr~s t~~ne~~~Assembly on September 25,1962, tn at " the so-called'Bantustan' pohcy, i.e. thepolicy of eventual full self­government for our differentBantu nations . . . has beenwell received by the Bantu ofthe Transkeian territory."

Inextricably bound up withthe policy of 'self-govern­ment' is the policy or sepa­rate development, increasedpowers to chiefs, land reset­tlement (which means movingthousands of Afncans off theland into 'Bantu townships'Where they will earn theirJiving working for Whites,disappearing at night intotheir 'own areas'), removingthousands of Africans now inurban areas back to the po­verty-stricken Transkei, de­privmg urbanised Africansrorever of any political repre­sentation in governmentbodies by declaring that theyhave such rights in their'Homelands.' In fact self­government is the outcome ofseparate development.

Have these policies reallybeen well-received by theAfricans in the Transkei, asMr. Louw claims?

THE ANSWERThe answer lies in the fact

that the Tr anskei is still gov­erned by Proclamations 400and 413- 'Regulations for theAdministration of the Trans­keian Territories'-dated No­vember and December 1960.When the Minister of BADwas asked in Parhament thisyear to withdraw them, herefused.

The provisions of theseProclamations are so horriblethat they must not be aUowedto be forgotten, and if Mr.Louw or anyone else claims

that Bantustan policies are

Hundreds Arrested In New

THETRUTH ABOUT THETBAISKE)

A eply- To Eric Louw -

Municipal WorkersWanl Wage Rise

JOHANNE SBURG.October 13 in this city is to be

Municipal Workers' Day of De­mands for Higher Wages. ,

The Municipal Workers' Unionhas called all workers together onthat day to demand higher wagesirrespective of grade and a mini­mum of R2 a day.

The union has asked the Man­ager of the Non-European AffairsDepartment to address theworkers.

'Organise yourselves or you willstarve,' says the union, and urgesall workers to attend the meetingand join the union.

The union offices are at 104Lenvic House, I Kerk Street.

NEW AGE, THURSDAY, OCTOBBR 4, 1962

Liberals Protest AtCOD Ban

DURBAN.The Natal Regional Committee

of the Liberal Party has con­demned the banning of the Con­gress of Democrats in a statementreleased to the press last week.

"The ban on the Congress ofDemocrats is another brutalattempt to stifle opposition to theNationalists' unpopular regimeand is a threat to all organisationswhich reject aparthe id. It will onlyincrease the resolve of those whoare struggling for a democraticnon-racial society in SouthAfrica," says the statement.

during the two-hour long search.But long after the Special Branchhad left they remembered that heshould have been arrested.

They caught him on Sundayevening at the railway stationwhile he was waiting for the trainto Port Elizabeth. In the morninghe was charged with illegal entryinto the location without a permitand was fined RIO or 20 days.

Mph'ephethwa was served with aletter from the authorit ies notify­ing him that his permit from thelocation superintendent was in­valid. And the moment he left thecourt a free man, officialsapproached him, examined his re­ference book and warned him thatyet further action would be takenagainst him under section 10 rthe law.

3 ARRESTED UNDERSUPPRESSION ACT

Mr. E. J. Mhlongo, Alexandra businessman owning three shops, tw~­

houses and a motor car, organises the pro-Verwoerd 'Bantu Federation'from Alexandra Township.

PORT ELIZABEm ,

WHILE the police werecombing New Brighton

following the series of sabo­tage acts last week they kepttheir eyes open for documentsthat may associate the ownerswith the banned ANC.

Three men here who were foundin possession of some documents I--~~-----­

were arrested in the course of theraids. and have been chargedunder the Suppression of Commu­nism Act. They are : David Moko­teli, Leboea Lejaboli and Seben­zile Peter. The first two are mem­bers of the Basuto land CongressParty. They were allowed bail ofR15 each, and their case was re­manded to October 10.

AT CRADOCKThe police raids have been

widely spread throughout theEastern Cape. Over the week-endFezile Khayingo was caught in thenet at Cradock. A group of sevenSpecial Branch came to raid thehome of Eric Vara shortly afterKhayingo arrived to visit him.

During the raid he was told togo outside wbere he remained

Roodepoort was prejudicial to themaintenance of peace and order.His appeal against banishmentfrom the urban area was upheldby the Town Coun cil which foundthere were insufficient grounds tobanish him. The third prosecutionfailed last week.

Yet the very night the magis­trate reserved judgment (before ac­quitting him in the third case) Mr.

Fomer Advisory Board ManHounded In R~ depoort

Fate of 300 Families in the BalanceMR. Daniel Mphephethwa, a

former Advisory Boardmember, who has been perse­cuted for over a year byofficials trying to throw himout of his house. was foundnot guilty and discharged incourt last week, after beingprosecuted for failing to leave '- .Dobsonville Location after his ;--------~-~--------~-

certificate of occupation hadbeen cancelled.

The outcome of this case affectsnot only Mr. Mphephethwa, butmore than 300 Roodepoort Afri­can families who live in Dobson­ville but work in Johannesburg.

The Roodepoort authorities aredoing everything they 'can to expelthese families from their homeson the grounds that they do notlive and work in Roodepoort.

A Dobsonville resident wholoses his house today would haveto go on a Johannesburg waitinglist that is today over 9,000 nameslong. And no one answers thequestion of where the familywould live till its turn for a housecomes round.

The Mphephethwa prosecutionfailed last week in court, but this,the people of Roodepoort know,is not the end.

• The 300 expect to be prose­cuted.

• The authorities are still afterMr. Mphephethwa.

They have tried to convict him incourt three times. and there aresigns of a fourth prosecutionlooming up.

Mr. Mphephethwa was born inJohannesburg in 1905 and haslived in Roodepoort from 1937.

PROSECUTIONSIn the first prosecution, the

charge was withdrawn. In thesecond he was endorsed out undersection 29 of the Urban Areas Acton the grounds that his presence in

teacher who lives at Bergville inNatal, has power. under the con­stitution. to expel Presidents andSecre ta ries 'at any time if he deemsit fit and proper.' Grounds for dis­missal are if the said president orsecretary 'breaks the rules of theconstit ution' ; 'discloses in his con­duct elements of Communism,''heads (sic) associations withfriends attached to Communism.'

Apart from Mr. Mhlongo wholives in Alexandra Township, thefounder and president-general isMr. Ndawo, who lives in the Berg­ville district of Natal; the FreeSlate president Mr. G. Moloi ofHarrismith, the Cape president MrO. Lukwili of Sterkspruit .

FOOTNOTE: There must besomething about 3rd avenue Alex­andra Township where Mr. Mhlon­go lives. for 10 the same street,right across the road is the houseof Mr. Makhene, who is presidentof the Bantu National Union, the

.pro-government and apartheid or­ganisation N ew A ge wrote aboutID the issue of August 16. Mr.Mhlongo said he did not knowMr. Makhene.

The charge also alleges that themasses who attended these meet­ings were employees of local au­thorities which supply East Lon­don with light, power, water,sanitary and transport services andthat the accused incited them tobreak their contracts.

The alternative charge is thatthey incited the masses at meetingsto support a campaign for the re­peal or modification of these laws,

Mr. J. Coetzee, the senior publicprosecutor, appeared for the Stateand Mr. Louis Mtshizana for theaccused.

Sparks and Kondoti wereallowed bail of R200 each. Ko­mani and Tyikwe were released onwarning. Bail for Tshume was re­fused on the ground that he hadbeen wanted by the police for 16months. In May last year he wasarrested on a similar charge inPort Elizabeth but did not appearfor trial after being allowed bail.

TSHUME REFUBAIL

FI~~fo~r;~:nml:~~~r~tea~r~:s~London last week on charges ofcarrying on activities in the inte­rest of the banned AfricanNational Congress. The fiveaccused are Douglas Sparks,William Kornani, Malcomess Kon­doti, George Tyikwe and ThamiTshume. They were formally re­manded to October 5.

Their charge falls under theSuppression of Communism andUnlawful Organisations Acts. Onthe first count it is alleged thatbetween April 27 and May 31 lastyear the accused attempted to con­duct a three-day stay-at-homecampaign. On the second count itis alleged that during the sameperiod at protest meetings support­ing a campaign against the Repub­lic of South African ConstitutionAct, the accused incited the massespresent to take part in a strike inMay last year.

ANOTHERSTOOGE OOY TRIESTO SELL AP RTHEID TOTHE AFRICA SJOHANNESBURG.

A N African businessmanwith three shops in Alex­

andra Township is the latestto try selling apartheid toAfricans, through the so-calledBantu Federation of SonthAfrica.

Started in 1948, registered inPretoria in 1951. but only now in1962 trying to get on its feet, this

'Bantu Federation' says it aims to'organise the Bantu people and toprotect them from wrong informa­tion and subversive ideologies ofthe Communistic element presentlyprevailing among the Bantu peo­ple.'

DOESN'T KNOWBut ask the businessman, Mr.

E. 1. Mhlongo, what Communismis all about. and he gives you thestrangest answers. He clearly docsnot know. To him it is a bogey­

______ _ _ _ _ , man in the dark, And an excuse forrunning an organisation that col­collects 50 cents a month frommembers and gives its top officialsthe sole rights to decide how theFederation's monies should beused, to expel officials. in fact doanything they choose.

Mr. Mhlongo told our reporterthat the Bantu Federation standsfor 'race pride. race purity. andrace development.'

Both the Prime Minister and theMinister of Native Affairs havepromised the Federation warm

:~~~:~~~~~~~:I---~~-~~--~~~~~~--------------"We have direct contact with theGovernment". he said.

MONEYAsked what the members' dues

of 50 cents were for. Mr. Mhlongotalked of taking up grievances withgovernment officials, and irnprov­ing agriculture in the Bantu Home·lands, building hospitals and banks,All very vague.

But again and again Mr. Mhlon­go fell back on this anti-Commu­nist business.

Asked why the organisationformed 14 years ago had only nowstarted to organise. Mr. Mhlongosaid : "We made repeated attemptsto get the organi sat ion on a properfooting but found out that halfthe members were 'Communists.'

"What are Communists?," weasked Mr. Mhlongo. "A Commu­nist," he said, "is any one whowants to disrupt, and will stop atnothing, but will even go furtherand use violence, in order to mis­lead people,"

DICTATORIALThe President General. Mr. G.

M. E. Ndawo, a former Natal

"Race Pride, ·Race Purity, Race Development"

One of the women already affectedby the Government's Eiselen line

I policy is Mrs. Lena Scheffers, aColoured woman married bycustom to Mr. John Jonas, who isemployed at a brick works inCape Town. Recently Mr. .Jonaswas ordered to leave his accom­modation at the brick works andgo to live at the single quarters inLa nga, Mrs. Scheffers and her twochildren, aged 5 and 3 months re­spectively, have been deprived oftheir home and have no place

to go.

"And When-yourc:hiId-prefi-;'' his button the top of the globeblows off in a small mushroom

cloud!"

not compare with the real bargain­ing which will begin with the pri­vate sessions of the Commission.

An indication of the farcicalposition is that not one party hasplaced its proposals before thepeople. They are all afraid thatother parties will make politicalcapital out of their demands, andare reserving their proposals forthe private sittings.

BYclaiming his rights underthe American Constitution,

a 29-year-old Negro, Jame sMeredith, ex-Staff Sergeant ofthe U.S. Amorce and grand­son of a slave, has set in mo­tion a chain of events whichsome observers declare to be

the most serious clash betweenthe Central Government and aState since the American CivilWar .

Faced by open defiance fromMississippi's Governor, Ross Bar­nett. the Kennedy administrationhas ordered thousands of troopsto enforce a Federal Court order

L- --: that Meredith be admitted to theUniversity of Mississippi. Missis­sippi is one of the three remainingSouthern states which have hither­to flatly refused to desegregatetheir schools and universities.

HOSTILE CROWDWhen Meredith attempted to

enter the University gates lastweek, he was met by a phalanx ofhostile Stale troopers and a crowdof jeering white students. "Two,four, six. eight--we don't want tointegrate!" they shouted, amidstcries of "Go home, nigger!"

Some of them tried to lowerthe U.S. flag and raise instead thebanner of the old Confederacy.

Undaunted by the dernonstra­tion, Meredith told reporters:"Everybody's worrying about life,but if I can't live this life then Idon't have it, In my feeling I'malready dead. I want to go to theuniversity, This is the life I want,If I can get it then I have mylife; if I don't then I might as wellnot have existed. Just to live andbreathe-that isn't life to me.There's got to be somethingmore."

DESEGREGATIONFigures recently released by the

United States Information Serviceshow that the steady, persistentstruggle of the American negroesagainst racial discrimination hasborne considerable fruit. Seven­teen of the Southern and borderstates (where racial segregationhad formerly been required byState law) have bowed to theFederal Supreme Court decisionthat segregation on the basis ofrace alone was unconstitutionaland have begun to throw theireducational institutions open toall.

This year alone, 29 southernschool districts began to admitnegroes to traditionally all-whiteschools, more than twice tbenumber taking such action lastyear.

In the south, the extent of de­segregation in the schools variesfrom token steps, with a minimumof Negroes in formerly all-whiteclasses, to full desegregation withall Negroes and whites in tbeschool district's boundaries attend­ing the same schools.

Whatever the immediate out­come of the clash in Oxford,Mississipi, James Meredith's deter­mined fight will drive yet anothernail into the coffin of the die-hardAmerican white-supremacists.

CONFERENCE PLATO FREE

MOZAMBIQUE

the Basotho. The Commission hasgiven the narrowest interpretationto the resolution and will allow nomention of independence by per­sons giving evidence before it.

Traditional "Pitsos," now beingorganised by the Commission todiscuss the constitution, are there­fore a complete farce. Everyoneknows that evidence given, or de­mands made, at these pitsos will

F~~~M~~:; ~:it~o~: ~~~ ~nl~mA/ri~~~efri~~ai~~~a~~bique, which was formed just ~~f~:rsi~~e~e~~ee~~~ ;a~~ai~r~ut:on three months ago, has just to the freedom fighters in Angolaheld a conference in Dar es and stressed that the struggle in

Salaam. The object of the con- ~~za~r~~l: ~~~i~:t ~:I~~ia lf:~~ference was to draw up a plan He urged his followers "to act,of action for the overth row of work and organise that we maycoloniaIism in Mozamb ique. free our continent from foreign

The President of Frelimo, Dr. oppression."Edwardo Mondlane, told a packed Mr. Rashidi Kawawa, -the pre-public meeting, consisting chiefly mier of Tanganyika. promised as-of Mozambiquis living in Dar es sislance to the people of Mozarn-Salaam, that the struggle in Mo- bique in their just struggle forzambique linked the freedom freedom from Portuguese colonia-

~~~~~~~~h~~e t:t~ili~~tp~r~~u~~ lis~r. Robert Resha, Executive

~~~~ ~o~~s'R~~~~~~h ~~~ p:ft1~le;u ~~k~er of the banned ANC, al~othose fighting against colonialism.. c1~~~ 2,O;:~i~~~~e tola~;awm~p l~

Dr. Mondlane is a lecturer in detailed plan of campaign againstanthr opology at Syracuse Univer- the Portuguese.

NEW AGE , THURS DAY, OCTOBER 4, 1962

Strong Reaction in Basutoland

"Just To Live and Breathe that isn't life to me.There's got to be something more"

NEGRO IGHTS WHITESUPREMACISTS

B.e.p. OPPOSES EQUALRI.GHTS FOR WOMEN

MASER U.CONTINUING its steady

swing to the right, theBasutoland Congress Party hascome out in opposition to fulldemocratic rights for Basutowomen. Their new slogan,"Vo tes for Taxpayers," putfonvar d in relation to the Con­stitution al Commission, would r------------------_virtua lly exclude every womanfrom the vote,

Women members of the BCPare shocked at the proposal, whichcame as a complete surprise tothem.

In a statement issued last week,the Communist Party of Lesothocondemns the policy of deprivingwomen of their rights as "reac­tionary and even dangerous to thefuture of our country."

The attitude of the BCP, con­tinues the statement, "ignores thetremendous contribution of thewomen, not only to the generalwelfare of the country, but to thebuilding up of the national move­ment.

"The women must have theright not only to vote for but tobe elected to all organs of thestate."

Instructing all its branches tolaunch a vigorous nation-widecampaign on the issue, the CPLpledges its full supoprt to thewomen in their struggle for equal­ity and complete emancipation inLesotho.

COMMISSIONThe CPL and Lekhotla la Bafo

are boycotting the ConstitutionalCommission, which is excluded bya resolution of the NationalCouncil from discussing indepen­dence or the transfer of power to

From P. GatsiSALISBURY.

'ADDR ESSING more than30,000 people in Chami­

nuka Square in Ha rare Afri­can Township recently, Mr.T, J. Malulek e, General Secre­tary of the African TradesUnion Conaresss, said that aslong as ATU C had the fuDF' 'lort of the African people~ .ould force the employersto pay a living wage to theAfrican people of Zimbab we.

He attacked the British SouthAfrica Police's attitude during theone-day strike last May. He de­scribed their forcing people to goto work and beating them as aviolation of the law of the Inter­national Labour Organisation. Heasked his audience to stand insilence to commemorate Africanswho died on May 14 fighting fortheir rights.

He said the purpose of the tradeunion movement was to negotiatewith employers on how much aworker should be paid. Owing tothe lack of a strong labour orga­nisation, employers decided them­selves how much a worker shouldbe paid. He called upon theworkers to rally behind ATUCwhich would see that such asystem was abolished.

Earlier Mr. T. L. Chiweshe,ATUC publicity secretary, told thecrowd that low wages were themain cause of crime in the coun­try as many workers depended onbackdoor buying. He urgedworkers to work hard so thatwhen "Nkorno 's Government is inpower you will be paid for work­ing hard."

African workers agreed unani­mously to contribute two shillingseach towards a defence fund forthe three leaders of the ATUC,Messrs Thomas Sewaka, President;Samuel Makufa and Ngazirnbi,Vice-presidents, who are beingcharged.

Mr. Maluleke told his peoplethat ATUe could not afford tohave its leaders in prison for yearswhen it had major tasks to accom­plish.

The General Secretary of the. - 'ican Trades Union Congress,

... Josias T. Maluleke, addressedmore than 30,000 people in Cha­minuka Square, Harare. recently,Mr. Maluleke said in his address:"As lon~ as ATUC has full sup­port from YOU African people, itcan force employers to pay a liv­ing wage to YOU African people,"

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A LIVING WAGE"

NEW AGE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1962

THE LOG

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jHOW'S TH IS FORANAPARTHEID NOTICEI; IN THECENTRE OF JOHANNESBURG? I

lost two valuable point s two weeksago to bottom-of-the-le agueT ransvaal United. and whatchances they had appear to havebeen lost with this defeat. How ­ever, one can never say with thiscolou rfu l team which insp ired pro­fessiona l football in South Africa.

Here is the latest position of theLeag ue log;

Abo ut two month s ago Kai serMata nzima sent out circular lettersto th e white traders in his areadem anding do na tion s. T he reacti ono f the traders was swift. T hey saidthey would not pay any "volu n­tary donat ions. "

and also refused to stan d and praywhen called on to do so.

When Tshunu ngwa explainedth at the meeting was for EmigrantTernbus on ly, i.e. Ternbus fromthe G len Grey dis trict. St Mar ksand Xalanga, the peo ple booedhim an d sho uted: "Qui sling,stooge."

Thereaf ter the people . after ex­pressing their oppo sition to et hnicgrouping. marc hed out of the hallin a bod y as a sign of pr otest.

Outside the hall they sang F ree­dom songs and raised their hand sin the Free do m salute as the dele­gation was esco rted by the poli..~to specia lly hired cars and whiskaway.

The delegation left Cape Townthe same day. If they are bonest ,they will report to Matanzima thatthey were given a vote of no­confi dence by the overwhelmingmajo rity of the people of Cap eTow n.

Port HIJohanmCape T,Durban

G oalsPlayed Won Drew Lost For Again st Points

Blackpool United 17 10 55 41 22

Moroka Swallow s 16 10 70 39 21

Orlando Pirate s 16 10 41 36 21

Aces United , " 15 9 46 26 20

Avalon Athleti c 14 9 3 50 33 20

~aritzburg City 18 6 9 59 59 15

Tr ansvaal Unit ed 16 5 7 45 53 14

Berea 18 4 11 28 56 1l

Lincoln City 17 10 47 62 11

Hea ;t s 17 I I 30 70

CAPE TOWN SAYS"NO"

the team with the outst andingchance of captu ring the covetedtroph y and the R2,OOO cash prizethat goes with it is: Avalo nAthletic.

With four matches to go, Athle ­tic, who were th e un derdogs lastyear , should, on their present­seas on form , win.

The ir near est riva l, Aces United

house officially d uri ng October.All the meetings th at both MemoryManeli and Ndabam bi have calledhave been a complete failure asthe workers have simply bo ycottedthem. When the re presentativescalled at the spot for th e meetingthey were accompanie d by police.

In the meantim e a dispute has M atanzima had bitt en off morearisen between Maneli and Nda- than be could cbew on tbis occa-bambi over the a reas allocated to sion becau se tbe Go vernm ent didthem. Mane li com plains tha t Nda- not give him an y ba cking. Thebambi bro ught a report on his trade rs were loud in th eir cond em-return from a recent visit to Qama - nati on of what they regarded asta that he was alloca ted Zakele as "pressurising" because Kaiserhis area to organ ise while Maneli Mata nzima is at the bead of tbewas confined to New Brighton ITA whicb ma y take ove r tbewhich Maneli complains is unre - granting of trading licences nextsponsive. year .

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(Continued from page 1)residents have made it clear thatthe proposed sel f-ru le in theTranskei was incom patible witbthe best intere sts and aspiration s

- of the Afr icans."After this, meetings which the

delegation had planne d for Ny­anga over the week-end were calledoff.

On Saturday the Matanzimadelegation had a pr iva te meet ingwith a few hand-picked resident sof Paa rl locati on.

D URBA N.

A is:~~~Hlt~I~~de~~:eJIsland · S dents' Association--anorga nisati on of stude nts at Du r­ban 's Ind ian Tribal College­stat es tha t the University aufhori ­ties, with out consultation with thestu dentS, have decide d to hold a"Sports Da y."

Complaining that the studentshav e no t been placed in any posi­tion to organise the spo rt for theday , the leaflet states that eventhe heads of " Houses" who willparticipate in the events are uni­versity lectur ers.

"We ma y not be 'wb ife' but weare fully capable of orga nising andmanaaina our student ath letics,"sta tes the leallet.

PORT ELIZABETH.IN the last few weeks Kaiser

Matanzima's representa-tives at ' East Londo n and PortElizabeth have been trying invain to hold meetings at thesingle men's barracks wheremigrant labour is housed. Thepurpose of the meetings wasto enlist the support ofworkers whose homes are inMatanzima's area, namelyCofimvaba (St. Marks), Cala(Xalanga), and Lady Frere(Glen Grey).

Th e representatives are collecting .-:----- ------=--:-----:-:----:-:----::------:-­money to present to Matanzima atthe fo rma l open ing of the R8,OOOhous e that is being bui lt for himat Qam ata, It is expected that theBAD Secretary will open the

Soccer League DrawingTo Exciting Climax

INBIANS·TUBENTSPROTEST

TJ!E South African SoccerLeague's competition for

the R2,OOO United Toba ccoCompany's Cup is drawing toan exciting climax as five topteams battle for supremacy.

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PUBLIC M EETING

The climax of the week's acti ­vities , howe ver, w as the publicmeeting which took place at theLanga Civic Hall on Sunday. Thehall was surrounded with SpecialBranch cars when the peoplearr ived for the meeting.

Ins ide the hall the people openlyshowed thei r defiance. They re-

1 -' fused to salute Ch ief Ma tanzima

Food and

Refreshments ofall kinds willbe

sold

TOYSfor Xmas

GROCERIESextra cheap

VEGETABLESfresh and cheap

BAZAARSATURDAY3rdNOVEMBER

10a.m.-6p.m.

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CLOTHINGat bargain prices

AND

MATINEE DANCEfrom 2 p.m.

GRAND FETE

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