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NEWS/CHECK 5SlTmS?^S??1t5fEm?TIONArNEWS^^ MARKETPLACE IN HADIBU, CAPITAL OF SOCOTRA ISLAND OF THE DRAGON'S BLOOD J^rnlti^BStaste OJSBS B STATE EXPRESS 555 -^•'13'*" \ass vjof AdC VJ\oM e»<^ LPE 5114/2 NEWS/CHECK 28 JULY, 1967 r Here is the TRUSTCARD This is the latest and most convenient service for cheque accounts in the world I This card turns your cheques into cash practically anywhere, any time. And if you wish to pay with it for merchandise on the spot—it is accepted becaus* it is bank guaranteed. Yes, this card gives you cash and you can use it to pay by cheque even where you are completely unknown because it signifies that you are a preferred client of The Trust Bank who guarantees your payment. Merchants, hotels, restaurants, etc., prefer this card too! Why ? Because they are not asked for merchants' com mission as they are in the case of ordinary consumer credit cards and they don't have to wait for their money. And why should they? Yes, these are but a few of the many benefits available through The Trust Bank's unique TRUSTCARD. Benefits for you as a Benefits for MERCHANTS, TRUSTCARD holder: HOTELS, [•] Immediate cash practically anywhere—even if RESTAURANTS, etc: you are completely unknown. [H Greater protection than ever before in accepting \m\ No need to carry large amounts of money. cheques—any amount up to R50 per cheque is guaranteed. No bad debts I \u\ Travellers cheques no longer necessary. [•] No contractors* fees or merchant's commission Vm\ You need never be financially embarrassed if payable as with ordinary consumer credit cards you have a TRUSTCARD and a cheque book and Buy Aids. with you. [•1 Immediate payment—why should you vwait for fV[ You need not arrange for withdrawal facilities your money? beforehand at other Trust Bank offices should you visit other centres. I'l When it is known that you accept TRUSTCARD cheques even where clients are complete stran [T] Facilities are not restricted to certain areas or gers, you will benefit even more from additional certain businesses as in the case of ordinary passing trade, consumer credit cards. H Absolute simplicity-payment immediately and \m\ Utmost simplicity—you present your card and no bookkeeping required. sign the cheque. Phone, visit or write to your nearest Trust Bank offrco today for further details. THE TBUSI BANK J Registered General Bank Your complete ONE-STOP full service Bank VUR3411( NFWS/CHECK 28 JULY, 1967 Your overseas business. Its our business too, anywhere in the world. Use us to make doing business overseas simpler and more profitable. We can smooth out the most comphcated itineraries, instantly. Make all your arrangements, including hotel bookings, car reservations, interpreters, everything. If your plans change en route, drop into one of our 900 worldwide offices. 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NEWS/CHECK REPORTING ON AFRICA VOL 8 NO 3 28 JULY 1967 6th Floor Total Centre 23 Jorissen Street Braamfontein Johannesburg Southafrica PO Box 25252 Tel 724-3412 EDITOR Otto Krause ASSISTANT EDITOR Robert Hodgins STAFFWRITERS Robin Briggs • Jean Le May Jeffrey Lever Tony Mann6 • Nicolas Stathakis David Thomas • Peter Wilhelm CAPETOWN OFFICE Ann Starcke (Tel 23058) EDITORIAL RESEARCHER Sue Michel CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Denise Bernstein Joanna Booth • Tony Davenport Madeleine van Biljon Tony Williams-Siiort PRODUCTION/ADVERTISING Helen Bloom • Isobel Gowie Anne McKrill NEWARK NEGRO AND NEW JERSEY NATIONAL GUASDSMAJM ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES The hundreds-year-old fuse CAPETOWN Charles Cameron-Strange (Box 4511 • Tel 41-1508) THESIS REVERSED violence, a pragmatic living together is DURBAN basically achieved. Fred Brevk^is ENATOR Robert Kennedy caLed it (Box 3508 • Tel 6-9846) S America's "gravest domestic crisis" pERHAPS one can go a step further Published by Checkpress (Pty) since the Civil War. Negro leader 1 and point out that when a people's Ltd at Total Centre Braamfon Stokely Carmichael said: "This strug tein Johannesburg dignity is observed, the likelihood of gle is not going to be mere street Printed by Dagbreek (H & G) peace — civil peace or international 28 Height Street Johannesburg fighting but a struggle to the death". peace — is greater. The question then As the long hot summer settled over Distributed by arises: how is this dignity best ob Central News Agency Ltd the US, Negroes throughout the land served? In Southafrica the answer is Commissioner St Johannesburg waged battle with the whites (see seen in the recognition of peoples as SUBSCRIPTION RATES WORLD/CHECK). At the heart of it was fully-fledged nations; in the US the Southafrica, SWA, Lesotho, Botswana, Swaziland and Mozambique: Surface the failure of white American society answer has been sought in the recog mail: E4.65 (half year), R9.30 (one to educate, uplift and accept the nition of individual rather than group year). Airmail: K15.00 (one year). Negroes who make up 10% of their Rhodesia, Malawi and Zambia: Air dignity, and the American system has freight: £3.4.0 (half year), £6.8.0 (one nation. In short, it is a failure to absorb stood out staunchly against any group year). Airmail: £7.10.0 (one year). them. The process whereby millions of differentiation. Britain; £6.8.0 (surface mail), £11.0.0 Germans, Poles, Italians and others (airfreight), £18.0.0 (airmail).