2 RAND DAILY MAIL, Thursday, September 29, 1966. JOHANNESBURG 80th BIRTHDAY SUPPLEMENT.

The Great Britain Hotel in Anderson Street is the oldest hotel in Johannesburg. On the wall above the entrance to the public bar is the date of building — 1888. The hotel now belongs to the Tollman Group. In recent months old city hotels including the Grosvenor, Douglas, Gladstone and Windsor have been demolished or closed. RECALLING RED DUST OF m* # Continued from Page 1. the Westdene Cemetery. At Little Falls, if you climb up many another family in the val­ the kloof, you will find great leys and kloofs of the Wit- boulders 'of soapstone. The watersrand. soapstone is the solidified rem­ Did the gold bring fortune THE RAND nant of the woodash from gen­ to the Widow Oosthuizen at erations of human habitation Langlaagte. to the Bezuiden- about the old man and I was hundreds and hundreds years you can see, here and there, the ago. houts or to the Geldenhuys remnants of stone kraals. They ashamed that he, whose father family? Why, yes. The widow were the dwellings of the people had been a conqueror in the Not far from Little Falls as I am told (but the historians that the Matabele displaced, or there are circular pits that, may know better) sold her perhaps even of people dis­ impis that later founded an em­ it is said, were gold diggings farm for £5,000 and the Bezui- placed long before the Mata­ pire in Rhodesia, should be started before Van Riebeeek denhouts did extremely well bele came. Who knows now?. grateful for a couple of cigar­ landed at the Cape Who selling vegetables to the miners. Long ago, when I was a ettes that I gave him. I worked them? Ancestors of The road to their farmhouse young reporter, I talked to a the Rain Queen? Tribesmen Stop dreaming about it! can be traced to this day; it is went no more up the pass at white-haired man on the pass from Rhodesia, well-acquainted the winding road that starts as Muldersdrif and lost all the with the trade tracks that took Siemert Road and ends at the that leads up from Mulders- history he might have told the gold dust in porcupine Go when you get a bigger share Bezuidenhout farmhouse, and it drif to Krugersdorp. As a small me. quills to the East Coast, where winds because all roads travel­ child, he told me, he had been the traders came on the mon­ led by oxen wander in wide left behind when the Matabele soon from Arabia or Persia or curves. YELLOW MEN India with cloth and geegaws? of luxury service and The Bezuidenhouts certainly fled northwards, driven away by made a better job of building the Voortrekkers, and be had The evidence is all there, at Yet long, long before the the stone kraals, and at the Í than my mother had done as never been in his life out of black men came to the Wit­ a child aged 12. Their farm­ soapstone boulders, and in the save 25% on the rail fare! house, built 40 years at least sight of his birthplace between watersrand there were yellow ground, and no doubt in old before gold was found on the Muldersdrif and the Manhaar men. There are Bushmen shel­ documents. But to this gen­ The Orange Express— Operates twice weekly in each Luggage you won’t need on the train can be sent Main Reef, stands to this day. range of mountains that fringe eration, as to my mother, it ters in a score of places on was all only yesterday. Tims, direction between Cape Town and Durban via in advance. Near it is the quietest grave­ the Magaliesberg. the Witwatersrand hills — Plan your journey now yard on the Witwatersrand, enough tomorrow for the Kimberley, Bloemfontein and Kroonstad. The shadows were falling one in the Wilds, several near archaeologists. Seats may be booked up to three months before­ with one tombstone dated 1849. The Trans-Natal — Overnight express between hand, simply by ’phoning the reservation office at The Johannesburg City Coun­ for the Jan. 2—Feb. 15 Johannesburg and Durban. Departs 6.00 p.m. your nearest station— or, if you would like every­ cil bought the remaining part daily in both directions, arrives 9.00 a.m. of the Bezuidenhout farm manv thing arranged for you including hotel bookings years ago. There are big oak S.A. Railway consult your nearest S.A . Railway Travel Bureau. trees there and not a few of the thorn trees that must have Concession Period covered the valley when the IOHANNESBBBG 80lh ANNIVERSARY Here are the dates _ first Voortrekkers rode into it. Think o f it... no crowds! Room to move. A big, LOVED THE LAND — 1886 — 1966 — big share o f the wide open spaces. Sightseeing to to plan your holiday around! FASHION FAVOURITES THROUGH THE YEARS— AT ANSTEY'S your heart’s content— at a leisurely pace, and more i Across the valley, on the Ken- holiday luxury just for you! Í sington side of the farm, is the Hotel bookings are easier, your train journey more Start the forward journey during the periods shown second house the Bezuidenhouts — and save a quarter o f the usual fare. relaxing. There are more people to see to your built. It was, in its day, a man­ Norman Anstey & Co needs. Y o u ’re the centre o f attention! sion, and if it is not a National ELOFF Monument it ought to be. STREET and at DATE I The Bezuidenhout family Y ou’ ll enjoy swift, quiet train travel at its best. The FR O M A N Y T O A N Y kept its right to the graveyard DURBAN dining and lounge car facilities are excellent. Sleep STATION IN: STATION IN: near the first house and one in comfort, and travel secure in the knowledge that young Bezuidenhout told me. “I knew when I was a pilot bomb­ you’ll reach your destination feeling relaxed. 2 n d JA N U A R Y *67— T R A N S V A A L REPUBLIC AND 15th FEBRUARY ’67 A N D N A T A L SOUTH WEST ing Rommel’s troops in the Western Desert that I would AFRICA not be killed; I am fated to be Train travel during concession buried with my ancestors in Bezuidenhout Valley.” periods offers these As for the Geldenhuys family, Concession tickets are subject to certain minimum old man Geldenhuys in 1886, as advantages too! fares, and are valid for one month. Return journeys always in his life, loved the may not be started before six days from commence­ land. When Struben came fos­ Reduced hotel tariffs. Book hotel accommodation ment o f the forward journey. Concession tickets are sicking around Krugeysdorp he What better time is there to travel, to go on holiday, through your nearest S.A. Railway Travel Bureau not valid on the Blue Train. saw the signs of upheaval and or to take a business trip ? It costs less to have your for a minimum period o f seven days, and reduced changed his farm there for one fun and get around. Expenses and tariffs are tariffs will apply at certain hotels. at Germiston. The gold miners For full information or bookings consult your nearest drove him away from that, so generally lower at concession times. And, to top Special motor-car concession. A reduction o f 50 % S.A. Railway Travel Bureau, Station Master or he bought Braamfontein. it all, rail fares are reduced by a whacking 2 5 % Í on the already low tourist motor-car charges is authorised Travel Agent. The gold mining companies allowed to holders o f F O U R or more return tickets would not let him farm there, either; they wanted the land Plan to go on one of the issued at the full and/or half ordinary fare or for housing. Old man Gelden­ concession fare for travel by rail in the Republic. huys bought Emmarentia named crack main-line trains. (Rates for S.W .A. on application.) if I remember rightly for his mother and his wife, and grew And remember . . . vegetables, peaches and pota­ The Trans-Karoo— This express operates five times Children under seven years accompanying adults, toes for the mining camp. Pre­ a week in both directions between Pretoria, Johan­ travel free— those from seven to fifteen half fare. sently he held high public of­ nesburg, Kimberley and Cape Town. SOUTH AFRICAN RAILWAYS fice and was at all times a . VZ003142/T./N. - j friend of moderation and eom- . monsense in politics. HEFTY SUM But the city caught up with him at Emmarentia. too, and after two or three decades his WE SALUTE JOHANNESBURG CONGRATULATIONS DOUGLAS, SON & PUGH (PTY.) LTD., were in busi- J family had nothing except a ness and advertised in the Rand Daily Mail in their hefty sum in the bank and a few hundred township plots. Lace Robes—very chic—from 8 Guineas. ON THE OCCASION OF ITS issue of Friday, September 26, 1902. ^ JOHANNESBURG Nowadays the sons farm be­ tween Muldersdrif and Sterk- 80th BIRTHDAY! WE ARE HAPPY TO CELEBRATE WITH < ON YOUR fontein. I predict that within The oxwagen has made way for the jetliner; the skyscraper has JOHANNESBURG ITS < this generation they will be replaced the tin shanty; mine dumps obscure the mimosas on the driven from there, too, stripped horizon — PROGRESS! 80th BIRTHDAY ! of everything but a few cattle Likewise the firm of L. K. Jacobs & Co. (Pty.) Ltd., established 80th farms and a few millions of in 1883 has kept pace with the time and the growth of this rands with which to start farm­ thriving city. From a humble two-roomed office suite it has Anniversary ing again farther from the spread to two complete floors of a modern city block staffed Witwatersrand, by over 100 efficient employees. DOUGLAS, SON & PUGH (@) Of course, long before the Yet the character of this firm has not changed: The present day — ooOoo— (PTY.) LTD. Bezuidenhouts or any other — 1 9 6 6 — public is assured of the same courtesy, efficency and integrity BUILDING TRADES MERCHANTS trekker family arrived on the that prevailed in yester-year. (©) Witwatersrand there were the DOMINO— a dramatically styled Black and White LOVEDAY & TRUMP STREETS, SELBY, Matabele. lording it under Mosi- TRANSVAAL (§) L. K. JACOBS & CO. (PTY.) LTD. JOHANNESBURG. likatse. His great kraal was Linen Dress by DELSWA. Washable and crease 37 VON BRANDIS STREET, JOHANNESBURG. among the Magaliesberg and New Telephone No. 838-1524/5. P.O. Box 297. could be seen from the Wit­ resistant. Sizes 7-13. R7.95 REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE AGENTS. RUGBY UNION watersrand hills. On the Witwatersrand hills ■ ...... ■■■'I . If - .. (» RANT) DAILY MATT.. Thursday, September 29, 1956. O Pioneers recall earliest JOHANNESBURG SOth BIRTHDAY SUPPLEMENT. days of ‘ mining camp’ ■fhdikluiM ■«1111111111111112! TP went the cry— Cold! Cold! The veld which had slumbered for centuries, perhaps aeons, came alive as OF ELOFF ST. ^ people streamed to the Witwatersrand from the far corners of the earth. Mining camps were hastily established. Then gradually a city was squeezed into shape. The deposits of gold were bigger, far bigger, than any discovered before. A town that was not really when Doornfontein was the When I go into town now, I meant to be a town became a suburb of millionaires, and feel lost. city; a city cramped at the ------B y ------remembers that the city coun­ "The places I used to know are ju s tly centre and fanning outwards cil once refused to have Saxon- and love have been torn down today into a vast suburban wold as a site for a university to make way for skyscrapers. complex. because it was considered too TONY STIRLING far out of town. “The Johannesburg of today The city is Johannesburg— is a completely new city. In monster of industry with family lived in a tent, and how He speaks of times when the old days we never dreamt giants of concrete and steel first tin shanties mushroomed Johannesburg hotels used to it would become so huge.” p ro u d which tower above ground up. then the stately homes of put sprigs of bluegum into where 100 shorts years ago their vases because there were Mrs. Dorothy MacDonald those who had struck it rich. Rouse, born in Johannesburg could be heard the roar of Mrs. Fysh could tell you of no flowers, and when the first lions and the trumpeting of pink carnations were brought in 1898; has traditional ties the days of Barney Barnato. with early Johannesburg. elephants. Sir Julius Jeppe and a host of to Johannesburg by rail from The marvel of change which equally famous early mining Durban. Her uncle, Sir Harry Graun- transformed the naked veld magnates. man, a bachelor, appointed her to have had the privilege mother, Mrs. D. W. Sims, into a dynamic, modern city Anyone who thinks that the NAUGHTY SONGS within 80 years is still remem­ mayoress in his year of office modern basement cafes of Bri­ in 1910. bered by some of our pioneers. tain with their pop bands is a Brigadier Hoffe could tell of serving Johannesburg’s Magdalina Fysh, 84. is one of contemporary idea is quite you when the early theatres, She has the only remaining those who was here at the mistaken. the Old Empire and His Majes­ link of the first mayoral chain start. She remembers when ty’s, were considered "offish” which was recently stolen from Brigadier Charles Michael the Africans Museum. gentlemen and their sons Ferreira’s camp was estab­ Hoffe, 81, a former General places and not suitable for lished: when women did their Manager of the Railways, will young ladies because the act­ Describing Johannesburg cooking in “Kaffir" pots and tell you of days in early Jo­ resses used to mix with the through a child’s eyes she says baked their bread in hollowed- hannesburg when the city’s male audiences and join in she found it a wonderful place for over 76 years out anthills. young bloods herded into base­ singing the naughty songs of in the old days. ment cafes each of which had the day. RECRUITING its own orchestra. lie can also recall many CONTROVERSY He will tell you that there nights of fun spent at the old She remembers great re­ were really orange trees in Anglo-Austrian cafe, gathering “Everyone knew everyone cruiting drives to Zululand and place of all society. else All the people were sports Orange Grove. i Bechuanaland for African la­ Mrs. Maria Gauf, wife of the mad and we used to have the Mrs. Magdalina Fysh . . . here at the start. S he can talk of the days of Barney Barnato, bour because there was none gayest parties.” in Johannesburg until 1887. ISO FLOWERS late Johan Gauf who estab­ Sir Julius Jeppe and a host of other famous mining magnates who made their millions lished the Reef’s first coalmine Mrs. Rouse was the centre of She can remember the little The grove surrounded a tea on the Hand. at Boksburg, says that the Jo­ a controversy in 1922 when men with pigtails, who came garden which was a favourite she captained a women’s soc­ from the East to work on the recreation spot on Sundays. hannesburg of yesterday was cer team which played a match mines; and the days of plenty He remembers when you a much nicer place to live in in shorts. when the veld surrounding the could catch a horse-drawn bus than the Johannesburg of to­ old camps teemed with game. She remembers days at the out to "remote” Craighall Park day. old Wanderers when she led She could tell you of the for a Sunday excursion, when the women’s cricket team. days when Johannesburg Africans were fined 10s. for “Faces were friendly and boasted only a single street walking on the sidewalks of people had the time to ex­ And she was present when and when the sidewalks were Pretoria. change courtesies. the Duke of Connaught laid made of wood: when her the foundation stone of the He was here in the days “ My world has cb^ nrrpd. City Hall. She remembers when Park Station was situated on open ground when the station con­ sisted of a few corrugated iron sheds. RUSH ANI) VELD “The whole of the northern suburbs was bush and veld. At weekends we used to ride to Pretoria in a two-horse car­ riage — often to visit General Louis Botha, who was a great friend of the family. “I grew up with Johannes­ burg. Of course it expanded in the early days, but it has only been in the last 10 years that 1 have noticed a phenomenal change in the shape of the city. “All the old landmarks have gone. And for me the old and lovelier Johannesburg has died." y e a r s a g o . . . . 77 (JUST AS TODAY) RAND DAILY MAIL, Thuriday, September 29, 1966,

JOHANNESBURG *Oth BIRTHDAY SUPPLEMENT. ' . Y i Old firms still ESTABLISHED 1897 h e businessmen w h o always had, in property in and TROY WATCH RISKED THEIR CAPI­ around Johannesburg. TALT TO OPEN SHOPS AND In 1889 another immigrant, WERE IN PRITCHARD STREET IN 1902 AND WERE Charles Glass, was riding a WAREHOUSES IN THE strong horse-and-cart about the streets ADVERTISING IN THE RAND DAILY MAIL THEN RAW TOWN OF JOHAN­ delivering a new product of WE HAVE SERVED THE PUBLIC OF JOHANNES­ NESBURG 60 TO 80 YEARS ter building rising above the his own to canteens and hotels. AGO WERE TOUGH, surrounding tin roofs in Prit­ It was called Castle Lager, and BURG FOR 69 YEARS AND ARE PLEASED TO ASSO­ w v was produced in a little Fox SHREWD, ADVENTUROUS chard Street, where the CIATE OURSELVES W ITH THE PUT present building covers almost Street brewery. Glass sold out AND— ALMOST WITHOUT a whole city block. in 1895 to the South African Breweries. EXCEPTION—POOR. Slightly older, and still re­ 89TH YEAR BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS Today some of them are for­ taining its air of Victorian pro­ Another nation-wide busi­ NOW gotten.’ But others are house­ priety, is Thrupps’, which be­ ness which had its roots in THE hold words in the truest sense, gan as a grocery store Johannesburg’s mining camp their Yiames heading the shop­ operated by C. H. Thrupp at days was the Central News ping lists of families not only the corner of Eloff and Presi­ Agency, once the name of a TROY WATCH little corner bookshop which in Johannesburg, but through­ dent streets in 1892. 30 RISSIK STREET, BETWEEN COMMISSIONER & FOX STREETS, out the country. was bought in 1896 by A. V. Other pace-setters among re­ IOHANNESBURC. TELEPHONE 838-5563. Businesses they began in tail shopowners were Herbert Lindbergh, a publisher of mod­ SPIRIT the dusty streets of the boom­ Evans, the paint and oil deal­ est means who soon progressed ing goldfields town have ers (1889), the founder of the into a widening field of book­ grown with it and beyond it, Belfast Linen Warehouse, now selling and newspaper distribu­ and family names which were simply The Belfast and part tion. once tacked up over wood- of the Greatterman’s organisa­ Another in the same field, ARTHUR MEIKLE & CO. TW O MORE PIONEERS: Mrs. Maria Gauf — my world has changed — and Brig. Charles and-iron shacks now dominate tion, and the furnishers Hilson but who never actually saw his Michael Hoffe, former general manager of the Railways . . . Johannesburg was a lively some of the country’s biggest and Taylor (1887), Shepherd enterprise reach Johannesburg, LIMITED was Jan Carel Juta, a Dutch place >n the old days. retail trade organisations. and Barker (1902) and Brad- CONGRATULATE THE CITY OF JOHANNESBURG Yet in spite of all the pro­ low’s (1903). immigrant to the Cape who had gress an air of nostalgia lin­ Bicycle pumps set business established a thriving business ON ITS EIGHTIETH ANNIVERSARY gers in the old establishments booming for two young men in the south. He died in 1886, a few years before the iron As Johannesburg’s oldest established Auctioneers, we which have had to surrender named John Katz and Harry served the City Pioneers as we serve their descendants a part of their dominance to Lourie, who opened a jewel­ shack styled “J. C. Juta & Co.” FIRST STANDS ‘SOLD newer and brasher competit­ lery store in Cape Town with was erected at the corner of today. Our selling organisation is backed by years of ions. The seven-storey premises R200 capital in 1895. The Loveday and Pritchard Streets, experience in all property and auctioneering matters. of Cuthbert’s shoe store at rinderpest brought a sudden where Juta’s multi-storeyed the corner of Eloff and Prit­ demand for syringes to in­ building stands today. 101 Fox Street, Rosebank Branch, chard Streets—once the tal­ oculate livesstock, and orders Johannesburg. la Admirals Court. lest building in the city—is could not be sent from Europe Peter Driscoll Phone 834-2961. Phone 42-9256. the physical monument to a quickly enought. Katz and FOR A SONG’ typical success story. Lourie set about converting William Mitchell Cuthbert their large stock of bicycle TINEXORABLY hound with ihe growth of Johannesburg is the changing face of the was a sickly young Ulsterman pumps into syringes, and made who took ship for Australia enough money to open a shop skyline of this cily, which started with those tin shanties 80 years ago. Few in 1881, but after a rough in Johannesburg soon after­ LOUIS! cities in the world can boast of the terrific expansion that has taken place in such a passage to the Cape decided wards. CONGRATULATIONS to stay ashore to recuperate. THE MOST comparatively short space of time. He started farming ostriches In December 1886 the whole the gold that was once hoped at Oudtshoorn until the mar­ ASSESSMENT JOHANNESBURG ON YOUR of Johannesburg, a 286 mor­ for and it was neglected for a ket fell, and in 1882 opened a WANTED gen triangular piece of waste long time. Instead trees, mil­ shoe shop in Grahamstown, At a more sophisticated busi­ 80th ANNIVERSARY ground known as Randjeslaag- ---- By------lions of them, were planted taking the risk of becoming ness level, three big building te between Braamfontein and and the wood from the forests the first businessman in the societies had been established MAN IN Doornfontein. was autioned sold to the mines. From one country to confine his trade in the city by 1890, and busi­ FROM for R26.000, The value of work JOHN BURGESS of these forests, which was entirely to footwear. ness brains interested in the in progress in Johannesburg at only cleared in the early 30s, But he succeeded, and ten more complex enterprises of TOWN the moment is well over R95m. emerged Saxonwold. Stands in vears later opened his first financing, property-dealing and Only 30 years ago building Cathedral stands was sold for stockbroking were gaining Parktown in 1904 sold for branch in Johannesburg, at ground. TAYLORS plans amounted to R18m. R10 and one bold speculator R200 to R400. the corner of Pritchard and Har­ These 986 50 ft. x 50 ft. bought eight plots on Von rison streets. In 1904 the big In 1887 Durban-born Richard stands which formed Johan­ Brandis Square for R110. The Currie opened an auctioneer­ V a,GOLD REEF TRAVELODGE FIRST FLATS branch along the street at the nesburg averaged R25 a piece. site housing the Central News corner of Eloff and Pritchard ing business in Johannesburg, HEIDELBERG ROAD. 4 MILES ON END ST. EXTENSION.“W A stand on the corner of Com­ Agency building in Commis­ “selling between the chains”, In 1903 Johannesburg had streets was built, and remains as the term was, outside the missioner and Loveday Streets sioner Street, was abandoned its first block of flats, the intact to this day. Cuthbert went for R120. Plots in Eloff because the owner did not three-storey Parkgate Man­ died in 1917, and his modest old Stock Exchange. He was Street for R10. Interest on the think the monthly R1 licence called upon at the end of the Johannesburg's Only Luxury Motel sions opposite Joubert Park. enterprise has grown to a South African War to make the stands on the outer fringe of was worth it. Because it was so far out of massive organisation with 150 the village at Commissioner first full assessment of the Within five months the ori­ town, a restaurant was branches. Celebrates its First Birthday on and End Streets was so little ginal village laid out by the provided. Noord Street became town, an assessment which has that there were no bids at all Government disappeared as the first millionaires’ row and formed the basis for subse­ LOUIS INSMKTO» IU cm .fi for 50 of them. In Noord the adjoining areas of Ferrei­ the Corner House the first CLOCK TOWER quent valuations. October 1st alias Street, near the present rail­ ra’s Camp and Natal Camp be­ skyscraper, 10 storeys high. A year earlier another name way station, stands were going came absorbed in the central The crowning glory of archi­ Right across the road stands today as well known as Currie’s RJ. JOUBERT !<££# for 30 cents. nucleus. Fortunes were made tecture was the creation of the another of Johannesburg’s old­ had been tacked up above OFFERS YOU The site where St. Mary's by those who dabbled in real Carlton Centre in 1906 which est retail business buildings, humble premises at the corner An* furtlwr info.motion concwnin* estate. occupied nearly a whole block. Markham’s, famous for a clock of Fox and Sauer Streets — VAN DOREN — Internationally famous pianist and a g - or rour requirement* Although the graph of Jo­ tower bearing the date 1897, that of L. K. Jacobs & Co. Ltd., hannesburg building activities although the building itself is a real estate business. entertainer appearing in cabaret in the GOLDEN RICH REEF Lionel Kearns Jacobs at that 22-1575 (Cor, Knit t Main] has risen and fallen, the mark thought to have gone up in TO The tents and wrattle and has climbed steadily. 1890. time was a 26-year-old immi­ PICK. REWARD grant from England. He died INSTANT SATISFACTION daub structures which made But it is only in the past Three of the present great ★ RESERVATIONS — 869-5381/9. Fr«« Deliveries — Free Ice JOHANNESBURG way for brick and stone houses three years that Johannesburg department stores began in in 1947 at the age of 87 after and Free Glosses were soon knocked again planners have thrown off the the same area in the space of building up his business to one DINING — DANCING — LUXURY ACCOMMODATION SOUTH AFRICA'S when they were found to have shackles that had kept them 13 years. The first was Stut- of the most successful real es­ — CONVENTIONS — CONFERENCES — WEDDINGS LARGEST CITY been built over a rich reef. restricted from the days Jo­ taford’s, opened in 1893 as a tate organisations in the coun­ try—but specialising, as he Joubert Park was laid out hannesburg began. It was the branch of a small trading store So Toast Congratulations on your in 1892 for a fee of R40. The thirst of the pioneers that re­ started in Cape Town by S. r first golf course was laid out sulted in so many small blocks R. Stuttaford in 1856. near St. Johns College in 1896. and resulting numerous street Interests in the business are Johannesburg's 80th By 1903 the municipal area corners in the central area. retained today by descendants had grown from five square Street corners meant sites for of the first Stuttaford and his ANNIVERSARY miles after its first birthday to bars. The Government needed partner, Mr. W. Thorne. gQth Birthday 82. Mainly responsible for its the revenue and bars were one Second came the store in St. from sudden growth, as is now, was way of obtaining it. Mary’s Building in Eloff Street, i ■ ~i~ ir i iTfi the creation of townships. The The proposed R50m. Carl­ opened in 1898 with a capital SOUTH AFRICA'S recipe was simple. Take one ton Centre covering five city of £3,000 by Norman Anstey In 1 9 0 2 with farm, cut it up into stands and blocks was the start of this with his brother William and LARGEST lease them out for 99 years. facelift in which height res­ four assistants. The store had PHOTOGRAPHIC Virtually overnight a score of trictions were radically al­ three “ departments” and it is We appeared for the first time in one of the townships appeared. They tered. The future of Johan­ recorded that even by 1911 the MACKINLAYS DEALERS were mostly owned by mining nesburg will not be a canyon Anstey’s monthly salary bill SCOTCH WHISKY companies but private in of concrete but a city of gar­ came to only £81. Later the earliest issues of the Rand Daily Mail vestors had much to do with dens acting as a breathing business moved into one of the The finest there’s been development. space for its inhabitants. city’s first great skyscrapers since 1815 J. C. Kirkwood owned Bram- The building programme which is still a dominant ley and Atholl. Max Langer- that is now going on dwarfs feature on the skyline. man — Kensington, A. V. Ro- anything in the past. And soon The third was John Orr’s, Who celebrate settenstein — Rosettenville the Civic Centre will rise in started in 1906 by another en­ Johannesburg and and Rouxville, Julius Rosen — Braamfontein giving even a terprising Irishman who came Durban Highlands North. further mark to the place that to South Africa at the same their The ground to the north of only actually was proclaimed a time as William Cuthbert. It FRASER 4 CHALMERS, 151s* Johannesburg did not yield city in 1928. was housed in an ornate plas- LIMITED.

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JOHANNESBURG 80th BIRTHDAY SUPPLEMENT.

DEPARTMENT STORES

Gaynors Genie cheers

JOHANNESBURG IS m m m AND DOESN'T LOOK IT GAYNORS IS NEARLY 50 AND DOESN'T FEEL IT We send our good wishes to the City with congratulations on its 80th birthday, to all the businesses who started when Johannes­ burg did and are still going strong, and to all the nice people who have helped Gaynors to get so far on the road to our own 80th birthday.

. iv,, ,*,*•.* s GAYNORS This mural by Philip Baw- RADIO & DOMESTIC APPLIANCES combe depicts a street scene PRITCHARD ST. (off Rissik St.) Phone 834-3011 outside General Mining RCSEBANK (next to Parysia) Phone 47-3238 Building, Johannesburg, RAND THEATRE GOT OFF TO A about 1903. HEATRE in Johannes­ staging operetta for almost ten T burg really began years by then, but it was right on the mining-camp Muriel Alexander’s efforts that 3* *& established permanent amateur this was the floor— with performances by FLYING START 3* “straight” theatre. From this practically the firstcomers. grew the organisation that has ♦a 90s, “ straight" theatre be­ f CLASSIC 1902 RAMBLER MODEL D Theatre was real barn­ built the Alexander Theatre 3* *& gan to come into its own. storming then. It was pre­ and now provides professional 3 * *& Leonard Rayne, first with seasons almost all the year 3 * sented in any wood and iron Amy Coleride and later with round. 3 * shed available. *& Freda Godfrey laid the t 3 * With Luscombe Searelle foundations of professional 3 * and his Theatre Royal came EXPENSIVE *& theatre in the city — and 3 * *& more lasting premises, but As for the Johannesburg built on them too. Operatic and Dramatic Society Invite inspection of their latest fashions amongst 3 * still without the mod, con. it has in recent years been which are many original models including Day 3 * *& we know today— and it is responsible for some of the 1 most expensive shows present­ and Evening Gowns, Fete and Reception Gowns, 3« *& significant that the Gaiety IIS YIDDISH ed in Johannesburg, and in this 3 « year of the city’s 80th anniver­ Tea Gowns, Smart Coals and Opera Cloaks. * 5 had a miner and his pickaxe From time to time, there 3 * sary has acquired its own Above is shown a Dolman Mantle in Black Cot­ *& on its first curtain. was opera. At the turn of premises — the old Alhambra 3 * ton Sateen, edged with Ostrich Feathers and *& Shows were mainly musi­ cinema — as workshop and the century, the “ Hebrew rehearsal rooms. decorated with Corded Application Embroidery. 3« *& cal or of the music-hall Opera Company ” staged Others have not been too *& kind— but when the Stand­ operettas in Yiddish. In slow in taking their own initia­ I tive. Taubie Kushlick, coming *& ard Theatre was built in the 3 * 1912 came the Quinlan from Port Elizabeth, estab ♦& 3 * Opera Company which left lishcd herself as actress-man This charming Mantle purchased at •e Muriel Alexander in Bella ager for a time in partnership 3 * an indelible memory among Stuttafords some 60 years ago may Donna," 1913 with Leon Gluckman, who was 3 * ♦a early Johannesburgers. himself responsible for such C* shows as “King Kong.” Brian be seen at our Pritchard Street en­ 3 * After Leonard Rayne’s Brooke bought a church hall •S days— and even contempor­ Muriel Alexander. trance. 3 » *a and turned it into a permanent ary with them — African Fresh from her London theatre bearing his name. The 3 * *ê Johannesburg Civic Theatre tod a y the Consolidated Theatres, one experience in Sir Herbert 3 * *& of the many companies was built. Tree’s company, Muriel 3 * RAMBLER CLASSIC V8 ♦a founded (in 1913) by I. W. Amateur companies continue Alexander formed around 3* *a Schlesinger, began to bring to struggle and flourish. Pro­ (oj fessional theatre cries “wolf” Established in Johannesburg 1893 3 * looks different - ■ professional companies from her in the first decades of from time to time — through abroad. the century a company that lack of venues, through scarcity and FOREMOST FOR FASHION in |Today's Classic V8 has power, all the built-in extras | was to become officially of plays, through Equity troubles — but, in the true 1966! known as the Johannesburg I" of a Rambler and costs only R3,259. In terms of *5 ' : A JUNIOR spirit of the show world, Repertory players in 1927. 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Korze St. (Between Claim 4 Bankel CECIL'S MOTORS EDWARD MOTORS Sis.) Hillbrow. Jhb. 14-20 Voortrekker Road. 99 Kerk Street, KLERKSDORP. 1st M AY 1964 WITBANK. Telephone 25541. 1st FEBRUARY 1964 10th MARCH 1964 6th APRIL 1964 ------I RAND DAILY MAIL, Ttiiir*(Tar, September 29, 1966. JOHANNESBURG *#th BIRTHDAY SUPPLEMENT. Richest of ail cities in By DEREK SMITH age Many industrial experts When did When say that this is bunkum. The Industrial Correspondent Transvaal Chamber of Indust­ T O 11 A N X E S B l K C, ries has already furnished the you switch to discovered all Government agency concerned " young, restless and Africa with a comprehensive report showing that the industrial ex­ dynamic, is a city of the Allied ? the extra services the country’s wholesle busi­ labour-intensive industries in pansion of Johannesburg could destiny. It has influenced ness; the Johannesburg area are continue for a long time under certain conditions. and made South African • Forty per cent, of the within the central city limits. turnover of all municipal pro­ The main cause of this, experts Dr. T. J. D. Fair, Reader in you get besides history; it has provided the duce markets; believe, is the “flatted” indus­ Regional Geography at the Uni­ greatest source of her • Thirty five per cent of the try — something almost pecu­ versity of the Witwatersrand, total financial and banking liar to Johannesburg. says in an article: “Control of 61% wealth, and today rules business; and From a slow start in the east­ the flow of Bantu workers to ern sectors of the city, the Johannesburg and other South undisputed as the business • Eighteen per cent, of all African cities can in part be retail trade. “flatted” principle is now on paid-up shares capital of the country. spreading throughout the east­ offset by increasing labour pro­ Although it is not primarily ductivity and by automation. A proud record for a city an industrial city, it produces ern zone and is gushing well only 80 years old. The record into Doornfontein “But,” he adds, “ it is un­ 20 per cent, of all manufac­ realistic to argue that inade­ is even more remarkable when tured goods in the Republic. quate local water supplies de­ it is considered that gold, the Trade and finance, on the other POLITICAL mand that the metropolitan source of the city’s wealth no hand, account for 41 per cent, economy . should bo slowed longer plays any significant of the city’s gross product. down in sympathy. Water is a part in its daily output. It is the satellite cities of These industries are con­ tained on one or more floors need to be satisfied wherever Gold produced in the Johan­ the Witwatersrand rather than it is required and, like electric nesburg area, in fact, now Johannesburg itself which pro­ of various industrial buildings, forms little more than two per specially built to accommodate power, there are not insur­ duce the heavy industries. mountable technological prob­ cent, of the total production of There are explosives, for ex­ a number of small factories. the country. It is a measure of They include garment factories, lems involved in its re-use or ample, at Modderfontein, rail­ its transfer over long distances. her resilience and restless, driv­ way rolling stock at Nigel, diamond cutting concerns for which Johannesburg is famous, ing energy, that Johannesburg heavy steelworks at Vander- has not faded with its gold bijlpark and Vereeniging, a re­ and other light industries, BIG BEARS supplies. many of them employing finery at Sasolburg, heavy steel a large number of Africans. From the harvest of its ori­ industries at Benoni and car “Many possibilities exist for ginal mineral wealth, the city assembly plants in the growing But Johannesburg and her bringing extra water supplies has diversified its interest, in­ border areas. industrial neighbours of the to the Southern Transvaal from vested for the future and Witwatersrand face the long- neigbouring catchments. There In step with South Africa’s progress stands ready today to reap the seen threat of a labour bottle­ is, therefore, no reason why the benefits provided by her early DISTINCTIVE neck and a shortage of water. threat to the region of re­ foresight. Government policy is to turn stricted development owing to Samuel Osborn (South Africa) (Pty.) Ltd., can nearly 20 years and we have been making Tel- Yet Johannesburg does not Together these areas form the flow of Africans away from water scarcity should not fade justly claim to be part of the story of the fan­ smith Crushers since 1942. stand alone. It stands as the the “megalopolis” — an inter­ the urban areas and back to into the distant future.” tastic g ro w th ard development of our country. muscle and guts of the entire dependent conglomeration of semi-industrialised “ home­ The present emphasis is on local manufacture and Thus many experts feel that In 1870 our parent company Sheffield. England, Southern Transvaal industrial industries — of the Southern lands" was sending steel to the West Criqualand diamond both the water and labour bug­ increasing numbers of our overseas associates are and commercial complex, Afri­ Transvaal. Apart from this political as­ fields. Later, the Witwatersrand gold fields stimu­ supplying us with “ know-how” instead of pro­ ca’s first ' ’megalopolis”. This There are distinctive trends bears can be overcome. But lated an even greater demand for their steel, pect, the Government also what future development does ducts. In step with this, we have recently formed area alone produces 36 per in the industrial development claims that the Witwatersrand castings and their engineers’ tools, with the result cent, of South Africa's gross of the city — an industrial Johannesburg still have room that a Factory Reoresentative was appointed in an engineering division which is capable of sup­ — and Johannesburg in parti­ for? domestic product. personality which Johannes­ cular — are rapidly running Johannesburg in 1903. plying complete crushing and screening plants for Johannesburg is the most in­ burg has developed of its own. In the municipal area, ac­ out of room to house an ex­ Yes, Allied - the Building Society In 1919, Samuel Osborn (South Africa) (Pty.) coal, ore and stone for dam building, furnaces for dustrialised city in Africa; yet With Government pressure panding African proletariat. cording to latest city estimates, Ltd. was formed and since then we have repre­ mounting for the establishment there are 1,377 acres of de­ with Young Ideas - offers you the ferro alloy making and we specialise in oil-firing it is not primarily an industrial It has used this argument, sented many famous overseas companies in this furnaces, boilers and ovens. city. It is, rather, a financial of capital-intensive rather than veloped industrial sites and 804 highest interest rates you can get country. During the 1930s we were associated and commercial city . . . the labour intensive industries on together with the threat of a acres which are not developed. with comparable security: 61’’,, on with Colvilles of Scotland, Tatlock Stead of Eng­ In 1954 an associated company was formed in the Witwatersrand. local muni­ water shortage, to pursue the A further 150 acres are to be Fixed Deposits and Paid-up Sha res, home of the biggest business ideal of establishing future in­ land and later, with Scottish Cables Ltd. We have Pietermaritzburg to manufacture engineers’ tools, undertakings in the country. cipal officials have found that set aside, giving a physical ex­ 4i% on daily balance in Savings represented Pegson Ltd. of England for nearly 40 the first company in South Africa to make twist the outer industrial areas of dustries — particularly those pansion potential of a further It is a city of trade and which are labour intensive — Accounts, and a TAX FREE 6% on years. Wcstinghouse Electric Corporation for drills, reamers, screw shank end mills, etc. banking. It has little more than the city supporl only 47 non- 75 per cent. Room, at least for Planned Benefit Sub-Shares. seven per cent, of the total Whites to the Industrial acre in the border areas. many more years of develop­ population of the country. Yet while the in-town industries But is Johannesburg really ment. ASSETS EXCEED R200,000,000 I it does: support up to 200. threatened by this twin threat o.f. %. Tn/L w atpjr short- The one restriction Johannes- Accumulated Reserves exceed (South Africa) (Pty.) Ltd. [ 0 Forty per cent. of The conclusion is that th«. ’ourg 'nas 'nab To place on pros­ R10,000,000 Samuel Osborn pective investors is that site Branches at lohannesburg, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Cape Town, Windhoek, Bula­ sizes must be confined to be­ ABS 8513/2 wayo, Salisbury, Kitwe and Lusaka. tween 1/8 and two acres. “We Westoby 6294 have to advise others,” says a municipal spokesman, “to go to SCIENTIFIC APPROACH the outside areas to establish heavier industries.” EXPANSION JUTA’S BOOKSHOP Of the existing industrial LOVEDAY & PRITCHARD JEFFERIES MOTORS sites of over 15 acres, an TO BRIGHTENING CITY amount of 1,215 acres of land has been taken up. The main JOIN JOHANNESBURG HE words “ forward planning” have an unreal ring to them in Johannesburg industries, in terms of acre­ these days. They form a magic phrase that somehow lias to widen the streets, ages, situated on this land are: T machine making (206); metal brighten the city, make the mistakes of th e past vanish and the citizens happier and (156), food (118), chemicals (95), textiles (93), wood (84), IN CELEBRATING ITS healthier, writes J. C. VIV1ERS. gas and electricity (79), and All this and more is likely plan can bo formulated, how­ ports and deal in detail with garages and cars (73). The re­ to be achieved — but with ever, some fundamental ques­ the recommended plan. mainder is spread among soft 80th ANNIVERSARY BY blueprints instead of wands tions have to be answered Extensive surveys have al­ drinks, furniture, electrical, and computers instead of crys­ and among these are: ready been carried out to col­ printers, paper firms and tal balls. 0 What will the population lect the information necessary forges. for the first stage. The Forward Planning of the future be? On such industries much of OFFERING THE GREATEST MOTORCAR Branch was created as part of • Where will they work, live These included surveys to Johannesburg depends. Yet in­ the City Engineer’s Department play, shop? establish the number of pas­ creasingly it is the financial, sengers carried by bus in vari­ in February last year. Headed 0 How will they travel be­ commercial and banking busi by a highly-qualified Executive ous parts of the city at dif­ ness that is keeping the golden tween their homes and work? ferent times; to discover the BARGAINS Planner, Mr. A. M. Marsh, it The answers to these ques­ city ahead. has a thoroughly scientific ap­ origin and destination of trips tions will form the basis of the people make in the city as well Intelligent planning, energe­ proach to the wizardry expec­ overall master plan — but tic action and long term think­ ted of it. as the reason for the trips and EVER! the plan itself will have a pro­ the mode of travel; to find out ing is ensuring or the city a The concept of forward plan­ found influence on future de­ what trips were made from long life of continued expan­ ning was of course not new to velopment of the city. sion as the leading metropolis Johannesburg when the branch neighbouring towns to the At present the forward plan­ studied area. in South Africa. was first established. But in ners endeavour to get a pro­ Data from the surveys are the past the tendency had been jected picture of Johannesburg analysed by a computer which to plan the various amenities in the year 2000. But as time can obey simple instructions at in isolation and the city en­ advances so will the long-term gineer, Mr. Brian Loffel. ex­ the rate of about 40,000 a sec­ plan “ the aim always being to ond. plained: maintain a realistic appre­ CONGRATULATIONS “A city is a live and growing ciation of the future city some " Per various proeceps casus rota vodvitur" organism and must be consid­ 30 years ahead,” according to PREDICTION (The wheel of time rolls downward through various changes) ered as a whole and not in Mr. Loffel. respect of its separate parts A complete all-embracing Other studies being carried CITY OF IN THIS TRADITION JUTA’S PROUDLY ANNOUNCE out by the branch cover land and functions only. plan cannot be prepared in one THE OPENING OF THEIR NEW “Some of these are vital, but operation. The Forward Plan­ use and detailed surveys of all are important and each ning Branch-has already ac­ certain urban areas requiring UNIVERSITY, TECHNICAL & must be given its correct complished a great deal to­ renewal. Studies will also be JOHANNESBURG weight in relation to the others. wards it, however, and is work­ made of various other blighted SCIENTIFIC BOOKSHOP “Consequently, no future ing “under a sense of great ur­ or semi-blighted areas to estab­ on your lish their future status in the Come in for a cup of coffee master plan can be of real and gency.” WHICH WILL BE OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO: lasting value unless it is holis­ “The tremendous increase in overall plan. Throughout the and look round our showrooms tic in its conception and com­ years is a constant reminder One of the surveys carried 80th • UNIVERSITY LECTURERS AND STUDENTS • LECTURERS AND prehensive in its development. that there can be no delay in out by interviewers who visited STUDENTS AT TECHNICAL AND COMMERCIAL COLLEGES • LIBRA at the new Opel Rekord range every fifteenth dwelling in a celebrations we shall A new approach has, therefore, the preparation of the overall RIANS • FINANCIAL HOUSES • INDUSTRIAL CONCERNS at your leisure. Opel Rekord been adopted.” transportation plan,” Mr. Lof- specific area will provide es­ BIRTHDAY fel adds. sential data to allow the pre­ ® RESEARCH LABORATORIES be open until 9 p.m. 2-door, 4-door, Car-A-Van FRAMEWORK “The present motorway diction of future travel. scheme is no long-term solu­ While the overall plan is still —ooOoo— and Rekord ‘L’ models. tion and only represents one in its initial stages, patterns The all-embracing master BENNY MR. GORDON JOHANSEN. WHO MANAGES THIS DEPARTMENT. plan envisaged by Mr. Loffel stage of one phase of the traf­ are already beginning to has as its base “ a realistic fore­ fic plan, which is in turn but emerge and there are some es­ INVITES YOU TO VISIT OR TELEPHONE HIM AT ANY IIME: cast of the use that will be one facet of the transportation sential steps which should be GOLDBERG made of the city’s land in the plan. taken immediately which will 2nd FLOOR, future” and as a framework “So the need for the early not conflict with the eventual LYNDHURST JUTA'S BUILDING, the transportation plan. implementation of a wider plan proposal, Mr. Loffel says. BOTTLE STORE. Jefferies Transportation is the critical is evident to all.” Among these are measures Cor. LOVEDAY AND PRITCHARD STREETS, w MOTORS factor in cities today and as a To compile the vast amount to improve the bus service, and PHONE: JOHANNESBURG. of data necessary is a tremen­ the need to restrict unlimited result any comprehensive long­ 40-5101/2/3/4. term plan should be developed dous job and reports will be off-street parking in parts TELEPHONE: 834-4231. 132, Marhall Street (Corner Von Brandis), Johannesburg. Tel. 22-9911 around vital transportation submitted to the city council of the central business district routes. in three stages. — especially in the main shop­ G1423 Before the overall master The first will be factual and ping area — has also become will cover the present statis­ evident. tical position of Johannesburg. The question of pedestrian The second will deal with movement in the city is a very I'liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiii ...... projections into the future at important factor in the vitality various time stages and will of the central business district examine possible alternatives and “undoubtedly separation of for a master plan. pedestrian and motor vehicles Sam Busa Health Centre The final report will embody will form an integral part of summaries of the first two re­ the eventual central city plan.' HILLBROW CONGRATULATES BELLS | THE CITY OF JOHANNESBURG ASBESTOS & ENGINEERING (AFRICA) LTD. ( ESTABLISHED OVER 25 YEARS ON ITS AND ITS ASSOCIATE COMPANIES — are pleased to associate themselves with the 1 80th anniversary Speedwriting Secretarial School C ITY OF I LIKE THE CITY OF JOHANNESBURG Houghton Commercial College WE HAVE MUCH TO OFFER: Nancy Taylor Finishing School LADIES (Private Studio) Mr. Executive WEIGHT ADJUSTMENT & Dictation Discs, Speed-on Records & Tapes JOHANNESBURG ) FIGURE CONTOURING Micropoint, Inc. on the occasion of their National Business Career Guidance Foundation Inc. 80th ANNIVERSARY j Speedwriting Transcription Services BODY BUILDING TEENAGERS Speedwriting Students’ Placement Services WE ARE PROUD TO HAVE OPERATED IN THIS CITY AS SUP­ BUSINESSMEN Special Afternoon (Under Personal Supervision PLIERS OF HIGH QUALITY ENGINEERING EQUIPMENT SINCE PRIVATE TUITION Instruction for Boys CONGRATULATE of Cecil Grigst) and Girls THE DATE OF OUR FIRST ADVERTISEMENT IN ONE OF THE JOHANNESBURG FIRST EDITIONS OF THIS NEWSPAPER ON 1st FLOOR, HILLBROW BOULEVARD, 60 KOTZE STREET, HILLBROW. THE FASTEST GROWING CITY ON ITS PHONE 724-2263. 80th ANNIVERSARY FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3rd, 1902 iniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiii,; ! RAND DAILY MAIL, Thursday, September 29, 1966.

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A.A. MUTUAL INSURANCE ASSOCIATION LIMITED QUANTITY THAN EVER BY and THE DOMINION INSURANCE O u *U > e > tU COMPANY OF SOUTH AFRICA YOUR SHOE FRIENDS LIMITED Mr. Pieter Meyer Roos, chairman of the Management Committee. MR. P. R. B. LEWIS. MR. M. L. NEPPE. CONGRATULATE JOHANNESBURG Five men at on its 80th ANNIVERSARY centre of NEDERBURG ESTATE WINES MONTACUE OSHER, STAFF AND MEMBERS OF AMERI­ Council CAN HEALTH STUDIOS, CON­ GRATULATE JOHANNESBURG AWARDED 27 PRIZES ON ITS 80th ANNIVERSARY. MAY IT CONTINUE TO UMVE men serve on the committee that forms the GROW FROM STRENCTH TO A nucleus of Johannesburg’s City Council. They are STRENGTH AND MAY ITS the powerful Management Committee, through which IN 30 CLASSES ON THE CITIZENS HAVE CONTINUED all proposals pass before being submitted to the HEALTH. PROSPERITY AND SUCCESS. Council. Once the Management Com­ MR. J. F. OBERHOLZER, 1966 CAPE WINE SHOW TO CELEBRATE THIS mittee has made a recommen­ M.P.C. and chairman of the 80th ANNIVERSARY dation to the Council it is Works and Traffic Committee. seldom rejected. He is councillor for Ward 39 AMERICAN HEALTH STUDIOS The members of the com­ which is made up of a por­ mittee are: tion of Kenilworth and Roset- Crowned with the coveted Gold Medal for winning the most points on the show; Nederburg MAKES THIS SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY OFFER tenville. (1) 5 " Discount for 1 Member (4) 20% Discount for 9 Members MR. PIETER MEYER ROOS, Estate 1966 awards include the Special Trophy for the Champion White Table Wine, the Special enrolling. chairman. He is the Council’s Probably the most outspo­ (2) 10% Discount for 3 Members enrolling. Trophy for most points for Dry Red Wines and four other Special Trophies for Table Wines, enrolling. member for Ward 13 which ken member of the City Coun­ (3) 15% Discount for 6 Members (5) 25% Discount for 12 Members includes Forest Town, Saxon- cil, Mr. Oberholzer became Jo­ in addition to 15 First Prizes. enrolling. enrolling. wold and Westcliff. hannesburg’s first miner- Born in Johannesburg in mayor in 1963. The Nederburg Estate record is unapproached by any other Cape Wine. Over the last 24 years, 1906, Mr. Roos comes from He was born at Klipriviers- Nederburg Estate has won 202 First Prizes, 142 Trophies and 12 Gold Medals. We put more nto living Rand pioneering stock. He was berg, four miles from the a t . . . educated at the University of City Hall, 48 years ago. In The world-acknowledged Judges at the famous Cape Wine Show have honoured the Nederburg the Witwatersrand when it 1932 he won a city council was still the Johannesburg scholarship to the Nautical Estate for the dedication with which its wines are brought to perfection. From vine selection AMERICAN HEALTH STUDIOS School of Mines and has been Training Ship, General Botha, 75 KOTZE STREET, HILLBROW, J H B . .* and graduated with a first- through harvesting, pressing, fermentation, maturing and bottling, the Nederburg Estate Cellar Hours: 10 a.m.— 10 p.m. 44-0639. in private practice as a quan­ tity surveyor since 1933. class certificate. .■.VAV.’.V.V.V.VAV/.V.'AV.W.VV.N He returned to Johannes­ Master devotes his skill and craft to producing exceptional quality. Only by such loving care Having spent a good deal burg, however, and started is supremacy achieved and maintained, year after year, by the wines of the Nederburg Estate. of his youth singing bass-bari­ work on the City Deep mine. tone arias on the stage, he In 1951 he was elected to the retained an interest in opera council and he has been on it EXOTIC and was chairman and presi­ ever since. dent of the Johannesburg Op­ Mr. Oberholzer also became eratic Society for many years. a member of the Provincial AQUARIUMS Mr. Roos was elected to Council in 1958. His talents the Council in 1954 and be­ secured him a meteoric rise came chairman of the Works and within 18 months he was CONGRATULATE JOHANNESBURG ON and Traffic Committee in 1956. chosen as leader of the 20 He was chairman of the Opposition M.P.C’s. ITS 80th ANNIVERSARY civic theatre interim advisory He has played an important committee and the civic centre role JJQ—gaining better housing — o q O o o — ------boartf and Mayor of Johannes­ for the southern suburbs and burg in 1964. has more than once pleaded TODAY YOU CAN HAVE AN AQUARIUM FITTED Originally he entered civic for a lottery to aid the aged. COMPLETE INTO ANY SETTING. politics “because I felt that MR. PATRICK ROBERT Johannesburg had treated me BRIAN LEWIS, chairman of •—ooOoo— well and I had a duty to serve the Non-European Affairs "Com­ it in some way.” mittee. He represents Ward CONSULT US FOR FREE QUOTATIONS: MR. ALFRED B. WIDMAN, 27, which includes Parktown Ex­ M.P.C., chairman of the Health tension, Wanderers View and 6 OLD ARCADE, 100 MARKET STREET and Amenities Committee and portions of Parktown and (opp. City Hall). leader of the United Party in Argyll. TELEPHONE: 836-8779. the City Council. He represents The son of a Rand Pioneer, Ward 23 which consists of por­ Mr. Lewis was born in Jo­ tions of Berea and Yeo- hannesburg in 1910 and qual­ ville. ified as a chartered accoun­ Mr. Widman was born In tant after matriculating at WE HAVE BUYERS W AITING FOR Cape Town in 1921. He atten­ Jeppe High. He is now a direc­ ded school in Johannesburg tor of several companies. and Durban and studied law Mr. Lewis is considered to City Properties at the University of Natal. be one of the United Party’s At the age of 19 he inter­ leading authorities on urban Suburban Shopping Centres rupted his studies to join African issues. the army and he served in For more than ten years he Business and Flat Sites Italy, Egypt and the United was honorary treasurer of the Kingdom. He was promoted to South African Institute of Race Flat Propositions, etc. captain in the field and com­ Relations—he is now an hon­ manded an infantry rifle com­ orary life member—and in Please submit your details or Phone: pany during two years on the 1957 he became a member of 111 FOX STREET, Italian front. the City Council. AUCTION HOUSE, Now a practising attorney A year later he was elec­ JOHANNESBURG. and director of companies, he ted chairman of the Non- Currie’s 836-2211. was elected to the council in European Affairs Committee. a 1961 by-election. He was one of the most im­ One of Mr. Widman’s pet portant figures behind the projects has been the cam­ massive task of providing hous­ paign for smog control in ing for Johannesburg’s non- cities and towns. The first Whites and has frequently ap­ “clean air” zone in Johannes­ pealed for better relations be­ burg has already been de­ tween the races. fined and drastic measures to MR. MAX LEONARD combat air pollution are likely NEPPE, chairman of the Util­ to be introduced soon.______ities Committee. Represents P S PRAMS Ward 21 which includes por­ tions of Jeppestown, Fairview, P. BLUM & CO. (PTY.) LTD. Bertrams and Malvern. The “new boy” on the Man­ The House of World Famous THE agement Committee, Mr. Neppe Prcms, Pushchairs and was born in 1918 in the area EVERYTHING FOR THE BABY for which he has become coun­ cillor. PROPERTY He was educated at Jeppe ANNIVERSARY SPECIALS! High School and had a bril­ ★ Imported ‘'INFANSEAT” ...... R4.50 liant academic career at the ★ PRAMS...... from R21.00 University of the Witwaters­ PAGES rand where he was awarded ★ PUSH CHAIRS...... from R5.25 the title of Scholar of 1936. ir Imported HICH CHAIRS — 3 -in -1 combination Afterwards he became a ("High Chair," “ Low Chair” and “ Kindergarten APPEAR EVERY chemical engineer but decided S e t " ) ...... from R 18.00 to start teaching because of the tremendous shortage of Stockists of all S.A. Makes and Everything for the Nursery teachers. He is now senior NEDERBURG WEDNESDAY lecturer in science at a city college. Mr. Neppe, who was elected to the Management Committee NOBLE ESTATE WINES & SATURDAY earlier this year to replace BLUMSP. BLUM & CO. (PTY.) LTD. THE PRAM SPECIALISTS — ESTABLISHED SINCE 1893 Mr. Dave Marais, sent to OUR ONLY ADDRESS: Parliament in the national elec­ 26 PLEIN STREET (between Joubert and Rlssih). JOHANNESBURG tions, has been active in the Phone 22-0711/2. MORNING schemes for urban renewal of the Jeppe area. RAND DAILY MAIL, Thursday,' September 29, 1966. JOHANNESBURG 80!h B I K T I I D W SUPPLEMENT. The Johannesburg of 24 HE bright red poster might have encouraged the T urges: “Kiss and Ride!” people of Johannesburg to But it is not advertising the move further away from the dubious thrills of some years’ time city centre in search of living travelling funfair— merely a space; the conquest of urban quick trip to the central city 21 miles long but since ex­ will be increased in the fore­ blight and creation of a on the Johannesburg Muni­ tended, proved a mixed bless­ seeable future and that the “green belt” around the city cipal Underground. ing, howrever. area in which it is payable will centre lured them back. Along its high-speed, six-lane be expanded to include at For this is Johannesburg of ramps more cars than ever be­ least Joubert Park and Hill- 1899 Republic the 1990’s, and the poster fore poured into the growing brow. D IP LEX FLATS hangs on the wall of the J.M.U. business district. terminal at Randburg Suggestions have also been A good proportion of the The urban renewal pro­ to Despite its tantalising slogan extra vehicles were generated put forward that car licences it is directed mainly at th e from the vast flat complexes should not be issued to any­ gramme that started it all was THE family man, urging him to use which sprung up near the one in the central city, Jou­ carried out in the Jeppes- the underground trains to work motorways; assuring their ten­ bert Park, Hillbrow and town-Fairview area in the late and leave his car with his wife ants of a swift route into the Braamfontein who does not 1960s when large sections of have special off-street parking — v | ||M1 - utowi— 1 rnrTTiiiw'T H lftH H iM I ^ ^ who sees him off at the city. these neglected suburbs were station. for the vehicle. Aerial shot Irom above the new railway station looking towards me natland of llihbrow, one of the most tfenseiy-popuiaieu converted into garden residen­ In this year, the poster is These measures have helped tial districts with duplex Hats areas in the world. merely one of many fighting STREETS CLOSED greatly to alleviate the conges­ and houses in rows. the lure of the private car. It tion but there is little doubt Once the experiment had forms part of an all-out battle In the central area the grow­ that for many people the proved itself the urban renew­ against the wheeled menace ing number of vehicles quickly greatest inducement to leave al trend spread dramatically that for 30 years or more has cancelled out traffic benefits their cars at home has been and even the older “exclusive” been threatening to choke Jo­ gained from the slow redevelop­ the opening of Johannesburg's suburbs came in for a facelift. Huge schemes for hannesburg to death. ment of the business district. underground railway. Many of the suburbs near Slowly, the fight is being At first the traffic flow was town with stands of an acre or 1966 Republic won. speeded up slightly by the es­ more — like Houghton — were An adequate rail and bus tablishment of huge new sky­ RIGHT OF WAY subdivided into smaller build­ transport service in the city, scrapers that covered more ing lots. Luxury duplex apart­ coupled with severe restric­ than one city block and The route for the tube sys­ ments in garden settings went A the near future tions on private traffic in parts forced the closing of several tem was planned many years up by the dozen and brought of the central area, is now minor streets, so reducing the ago and the city council ob­ wealthier families back to live LITTLE N the next few years fluence the future progress of or more — is expected to be gradually helping to create or­ number of intersections. tained the right of way for it closer to the city. Johannesburg will under­ the city. completed by 1973. der out of the chaotic conges­ Some other small streets at an early stage. Only in the Not all are being planned tion of the '60s. suburbs, where the trains rise But although the population OLDER I The cost of the network, were also dosed to become density close to the city in­ go some of its most drama­ for 20 or 30 years in the which will span Johannesburg ahout 160 shops of different As a result, the giant park­ boulevards for pedestrians above ground, has large-scale tic changes since the early future either — and here are sizes; a bazaar with 132 stands only and the new buildings expropriation of properties creased considerably, there from north to south and east ing grounds specially built at were many more open spaces BUT raining camp davs, writes details of some which have to west, was initially expected and a market of 210 stands. suburban underground stations themselves, set further back been necessary. either been started already or Ornamental courts with than 20 years ago. The J. C. VTVIERS. to be about R45m., but is now are nearly always full. from the sidewalk than older Through all these factors may be undertaken in the near estimated at R60m. plus. fountains, piazzas, malls and a ones, allowed more room for development has been up­ STILL future. roof tearoom will complete the traffic in the central area has wards. leaving space for gar­ Even at the age of 80 the So far. about Rllm. has walking and helped to become manageable, though THE MOTORWAYS: one of been spent on the ways and picture. LITTLE POINT seperate pedestrians more ef­ dens and parks to supplement city is still among the youngest still substantial. those already there and others THE in' Africa. In keeping with this the most ambitious of the it is planned to advertise THE BUSWAY: This pro­ fectively from the cars. position, it is constantly tack­ city's short-term projects, the another seven major contracts, ject is likely to be tackled in Few people in the residential All this helped to change It is expected that the sys­ laid out on the great slices of ling new projects with a fever­ motorways scheme, is probably valued at R14m„ during the the very near future and is areas — which now stretch the drab and grey central city tem of traffic supervision by land abandoned by the dying ish vitality. also the furthest advanced of next 12 months. aimed at speeding up the bus miles past Randburg to the into a place of sunlight with television cameras mounted on gold mines on the fringe of COMPLETE all present major under­ services to the north-eastern high buildings will soon be in­ the city area. Many of these schemes are MAJOR ROADS PROGRAM­ areas. north — would dream of taking piazzas, fountains and sidewalk takings. their cars further into the city cafes — but it could only tem­ troduced to two more streets J.C.V. breaking away from the pat­ Its 21-mile length of high­ ME: In addition to the motor­ If passed by the city coun­ tern of development until now ways a second major loads cil the scheme will entail the than absolutely necessary. porarily alleviate the problem beside Jeppe and Bree and a OUTFITTERS speed roads — long stretches second computer to automatic­ arid will themselves greatly in­ of which will be elevated 20ft programme is now' in its building of a special road for There would be little point posed by the growing number second year The programme buses only. The road will slice in doing so, anyway. Even with of vehicles that crowded into ally direct the traffic flow pat­ TO covers improvements of ar­ narrow pieces of ground from the improved traffic conditions the fewer streets. terns is likely to be installed terial roads and the construe- Joubert Park and the Union in the central area and sur­ before the end of the year. THE tion of new link roads, in ad­ grounds and will stretch from rounding suburbs it would still Other plans for the near THE dition to one-way street sys­ the Jack Mincer Garage to Wol- mean exchanging a 15-minute TANGLES future include the widening of tems and busways. marans Street. tram journey for a nervewrack- The traffic tangles that re­ the walkways built at first- The programme involves ex­ In the central city and ing half-hour trip by ear, with floor level above Floff Street MEN GOOD WISHES penditure of about R1.4m. a no guarantee of finding park­ sulted as Johannesburg’s through Hillbrow' the buses many years ago to separate NATIONAL year. Work is in progress at w ill use quiet roads where res­ ing space at the end of it. vehicle registrations mounted pedestrians and traffic. OF present on Jan Smuts Avenue. trictive measures will be intro­ And so most people travel­ towards the 600.000 mark were TO Main Road, Newlands, First duced to discourage private ling to work in the city from adequate proof that stronger FOOTBALL Avenue. Linden, and the traffic. the outlying areas are happy measures were called for than WALKWAYS Wemmer - Jubilee - Heidel­ THE MONORAIL: Now to accept the suggestions of the ban imposed — despite TASTE berg Road link in Village being studied by the city's initial objections from the the posters and either leave More walkways have sub­ LEAGUE Main. Forward Planners, the idea of their cars at home or in one business sector — on the build­ of JOHANNESBURG URBAN RENEWAL: Plans a monorail service to the ing of further parking garages sequently been built above the of the free parking areas. central streets, of course, and CONGRATULATES are being prepared for the re­ Southern Suburbs is the brain­ All this has worked out ac­ in the city centre. Johannesburg newal ol two dilapidated resi­ child of Mr. J. F. Oberholzer. Following the example of the city’s Forward Planning cording to the master transpor­ Department is at present con­ THE C ITY OF ON ITS dential districts, east and west M.P.C. and a former mayor of tation plan on which Johannes­ major cities overseas the city 67 YEARS OF TRADITION AND of the cantral area, into gar­ Johannesburg. council then introduced the sidering a long-term scheme to JOHANNESBURG burg's town planners were build a moving sidewalk at SERVICE TO HATS AND SER­ den suburbs. His plan is for a “ bus-in- working in 1966 when the city "traffic-jam tax", an additional The one scheme covers the-sky” operating 20 ft. second-floor level down the ON ITS VICE TO HATS AND CLOTHES engineer. Mr. B. L. Loffell, said; licence fee payable only by length of Floff Street. 80th ANNIVERSARY about 160 acres of neglected above the traffic between "Unlike the towns of people who use their cars in IN SOUTH AFRICA. areas in Jeppe, Troyville and menorail stations at the Van- Outside the city the biggest the past, in Ihe major cities the central business area. COR. COMMISSIONER & Fairview and the other some 80 derbijl Square and next to the Certain vehicles — delivery obvious change in the past 30 80t h acres in Vrededorp and Page- of today the critical factor is LOVEDAY STREETS. Wembley Stadium. transportation. trucks. ambulances, doctors’ years has been that which from the view. Trains would run through­ cars — are exempted from the transformed neglected residen­ ANNIVERSARY 834-4485. THE FORDSBURG INDIAN out the day at intervals of tax which about doubles the tial districts into garden BUSINESS CENTRE: Ex­ only three minutes and pro­ VITALITY ordinary licence fee. suburbs. (PTY.i pected to become a major vide a two-minute service be­ It seems certain that the tax Improved transportation tween the stations. LTD. tourist attraction in the city, “The relative ease with I GENERAL ERECTION Co. the proposed business complex On the basis of an ex­ which people and goods can | will cover about 20 acres and pected saving on existing bus 48 NACINCTON ROAD, WADEVILLE, CERMISTON. be moved within it, in large have a built-in “oriental" at­ services the council could get measure determines the vitality TELEPHONE 34-4201 ------BOX 578 mosphere. a 30-year loan of about R2.75m Planning has started on the to neip tinance the system. and develoment of the city. project which should cost THE NEW MARKEi. After “Without freedom of move­ about R8m. to R9m. two years oi negotiations over ment growth is inhibited and The scheme provides for the price of the site wanted this can lead to blight and even lor Johannesburg's new mar­ ultimately to complete decay ket and abattoir, the city coun­ of the vital centre of the city.” R ^ ; > ioh,c cil has finally decided to ex­ So the need to solve the propriate it. traffic and transportation prob­ Some years ago the council lems dominated the entire ap­ voted R400.000 for the site proach to town planning. Find­ O h L and, because of the rise in ing the solution was not an property values, later obtain­ easy task. ed special permission from Before any real curbs could the Administrator to set aside be introduced to discourage another R330.000. private traffic from entering The market will cost ahout the central area it was essen­ R9m. The council is still plan­ tial to have an effective public ning the building but, until transport service to all parts it knows lor certain that it of the city. will get the City Deep site, the plans cannot be com­ pleted. REA I. PROBLEM FLUFF STREET PEDES­ TRIAN MALL: For nearly The possibility of a monorail three years it has been ihe between Vanderbijl Square in municipality's intention to turn the business district and Wemb­ parts of Floff and Plein Streets ley Stadium in the southern into a pedestrians-only boule­ suburbs was investigated at an vard with fountains, sculptured early stage. trees and mosaic pavements. But the real problem lay to At present the scheme is be­ the north of the city where, ing delayed until the multi- until the population grew large mulion .and Hotel President enough to warrant the expense is completed because it must of an underground railway, all architecturally tie in with the public transport had to he by Here is a great way to pick up some extra cash. Advertise those building. bus. THE PARKS: Work is going items you no longer need . Bicycles. Collections, Roller or Ice on all the time to develop With traffic congestion get­ Skates, School Books, Toys, etc., etc. . . in the RAND DAILY and improve Johannes'ourg’s ting worse hv the day it be­ parks. Here is a list of some came vital in 1966 to introduce MAIL S TEENAD COLUMNS.” Thousands of young people may of the things being done: measures that would speed up be looking for just what you want to sell. At Pioneers’ Park south of the bus service and allow it to the Wemmer Pan a promen­ compete better with private ade and picnic places are be­ cars. IT'S FUN !... IT'S PROFITABLE !... ing constructed; a horse­ Thus the first buswav, a road jumping area has been com­ reserved for buses only, was pleted and a refreshment kiosk established for the transport lias been built. services to the north-eastern An open-air theatre is being suburbs in 1967. built in Joubert Park; a large Because of the success of this recreation centre is going up first busway, similar ways were in Verity Park, Parkhurst: a dis­ later also introduced to other trict swimming pool will be parts of the city. built soon in Hofland Park, Be- The transport service was zuidenhouts Valley, and the speeded up even more in 1974 city zoo is being redeveloped when buses were given priority to eliminate many of the over private traffic in some cages and house the animals lanes of Johannesburg’s newly in “onxï” areas surrounded completed motorway network STARTS 3rd OCT. - DAILY UNTIL 8th OCT. by r-TOats. The motorway system, then

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JOHANNESBURG, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER S, 1966.

I I I I Experts fear start of downhill trend R im JO’BURG DEFICIT Loss seen as threat to Nowhere near a cash S t a r city gr crisis says Lewis By J. C. VIVIERS Municipal Reporter JOHANNESBURG IS NOWHERE NEAR facing a financial crisis though J the city's civic wage increases and holiday bonus benefits, totalling OHANNESBURG, the richest city in R2.1-million, are likely to put it slighty in the red at the end of the financial J Africa, faces its first deficit for ! year for the first time in many vears. years and probably the biggest in its "We budgeted for a wage in- crease of R1-null ion and the history at the end of the current finan­ j additional Rl.1-million may ] possibly overtake the nominal cial year. surplus which we expected,” j said Mr. Patrick Lewis, deputy | The deficit is expected to be close chairman of the Management Í to Rim, despite drastic pruning of Committee, today. “But the loss, J if there is one, is negligible i expenditure in all municipal | when seen in relation to the departments. city’s total budget of R118.6- 1 million.” Financial experts tear it may be the stort of a Mr. Lewis pointed out that the trend that could threaten Johannesburg's future growth report from the Borckenhagen unless strong action is taken. Commission, which some years ago studied the financial rela­ They believe the measures to | tionship between the Govern- check it could include special jj j ment, the province and the powers for the City Council to ï impose a civic income tax, pur- j I cities, had now been completed chase tax, or taxes on enter­ I and handed to the Government tainment, sales and businesses | for consideration. in the city. “We are given to understand Mr. W. Carine, Johannes- | that municipalities will have burg’s City Treasurer, said some relief if the recommenda­ yesterday: “It seems certain tions of the commission are that the gap between municipal agreed to,” said Mr. Lewis. income and expenditure will “But in any case, Johannes­ widen in future years. burg's finances are nowhere near “1 am afraid the revenue j a crisis situation. We can con­ from property rates cannot keep ] tinue to face the future with pace with increasing expendi- : confidence, even with obvious ture. problems ahead of us, because “Obviously, the City Council of the basic soundness of the will have to trim its schemes city’s finances. for the funds available. “We are not even sure yet that we will end the current year "In time, the rate of develop­ with a loss. We may carry over ment will either have to be a larger surplus from last year decreased or new sources of than we budgeted for, and also, revenue found.” in the following year, we can expect more money from the The cause rate after the new valuation roll.” Mr. Carine said the esti­ All municipalities were facing mated deficit for 1966-67 was a similar problem of rising the result of wage increases expenditure because their re­ •jf CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 and bonus benefits, totalling sources were so limited, said about R2.1m, that had been Mr. Lewis. awarded to thousands of JO’BURG municipal employees since the [ civic budget was presented in ! June. FACES Rim The city’s last budget was a record R118.6m, almost as much as the combined budgets DEFICIT of Natal and the Free State. expenditure had increased The budget allowed an from RIRm to more than amount of Rim for the wage R76m in the past 20 years, the increases and added benefits assessment rates, which were but the extra Rl.lm swallowed t the main source of finance for up the nominal R21.112 sur­ non-remunerative services, had plus, with which the city coun­ increased only from R4.8m to cil hoped to end the 1966-67 R13.4m. 3 year, and left a deficit of “It is clear that the council S about Rim. > has to rely greatly on charges “This amount could be for amenities and services to ' affected slightly by a few meet its current commitments,” other factors — for instance, he said. our surplus from last year Mr. Patrick Lewis, acting might be more than the esti­ chairman of the Management mated R2.5m—but it is un­ Committee, said the council likely to alter significantly,” was preparing to tackle many Mr. Carine said. major projects, including urban renewal and the construction of indication motorways. Between R40m and R47m was The actual deficit for this needed for the motorways. year does not disturb Mr. Carine unduly, particularly as a new valuation roll should in­ crease revenue from property rates next year. It is the indication of things to come that fills him with foreboding Proposed expenditure on the city’s revenue account for the 1966-67 financial year were re­ duced by R5.6m before June to balance the budget and keep t property rates at their present level. The rates, in any case, arc already 3c in the rand—the highest they can go without special permission from the Administrator. Mr Carine pointed out that though the council's ordinary XITY HALL DIARY S i r í Argument ended unusual argument

F a soil word turneth more with the better quali­ taker had proved himself the graphs of South African people | and scenes of South African | away wrath, the same fied applicants who now must host man for the post while I feel that they do not have what acting in the position on pre­ paintings. can be said for the power it takes to attain the position.” vious occasions passed unchal­ According to Dr. A. D. Ben- I of a highly unusual anec­ Mr. Barnard wanted the mat­ lenged. susan this was the first signifi­ dote to check a lengthy ter to be referred back to the None of the other council­ cant use of photography in South Africa and the price, debate during last week's Management Committee. Be­ lors seemed prepared to take fore Mr. Patrick Lewis, acting the issue further. although the highest yet paid meeting of the Johannes­ for historical South African chairman of that committee, All sat silent — stunned burg City Council. could reply, Mr. J. F. Ober- photographs, is very reasonable | perhaps by the information for such “a magnificent item Strange topics are discussed holzer, M.P.C., rose to tell the that in those early days Jo­ council about Mr. Whittaker. of Africana.” in the council at times, but the 3 hannesburg's streets were birth of a baby in the City named so recklessly after ★ Hall is not often among them. FIERCE DEBATE babies instead of politicians. \V1TH most of Johannes- It was doubly surprising It seemed that Mr. Whit­ Regular concerts in the open ' burg’s 80th birthday cele­ then that, when the subject taker had been born in the air should become a feature of brations almost part of the came up last week, it was while City Hall while the council of Johannesburg life as soon as city’s history already, there the city fathers argued as those days was fiercely de­ Ihe Joubert Park theatre is will now be the inevitable post ordinary an issue as Ihe bating the naming of a street completed. mortems. But this time they appointment of a senior estab­ in Bellevue. But what about also making promise to be less messy than lishment officer on the Staff “ His father, who was a com­ the sidewalk cafe a permanent usual. Board. missionaire, heard of his son’s feature? Now is the time to birth and interrupted the argu­ establish whether the closing ATTRACTIONS OBJECTION ment — something which of Kerk Street during the A few minor mishaps — like could obviously never happen celebrations adversely affected the dousing of spectators at a Mr. S. P. Barnard objected today — to say: “Why not the traffic flow and business fire-fighting display — do not from the Nationalist side to the name the street after the in that block. seem too great a price to pay recommendation that Mr. H. baby?” If it did not—are there for the enjoyment which the Whittaker, in the council's ser­ “And that was how Whit­ really any valid reasons why festivities brought to thou­ vice for 30 years, be appointed taker Street in Bellevue was we cannot have sidewalk cafes? sands of people. to the post. named.” If a general criticism can The stage seemed set for a Mr. Oberholzer carefully be made it is probably that the lengthy debate as Mr. Barnard stressed that this bit of Johan­ JL UNIQUE portfolio of city authorities still do not told the council that although nesburg Africana had not in historical photographs re­ organise on a large enough I he had nothing against Mr. any way influenced the choice lating to the visit Prince Alfred scale to cope with the number Whittaker he felt the job of Mr. Whittaker as the man paid South Africa in 1861 is of people who turn up at the should go to one of the other for the job and sat down as to be bought by the Africana dav-tn-day festivities. I applicants with higher qualifi­ Mr. Lewis rose to explain just Museum for R600. Two of the main attractions cations why Mr. Whittaker was Many of the pictures are of this time were the open-air "I have a lot of sympathy chosen. places Prince Alfred visited concerts and the sidewalk cafe 1 with Mr. Whittaker but even His statement that Mr. Whit­ and there are also 60 photo­ in Kerk Street.

Experts fear start of downhill trend r ______— ------R i m JO’BURG DEFICIT Loss seen as Nowhere near a cash threat to city growth crisis, says Lewis By J. C. VIVIERS Municipal Reporter R2.1-million, aro likely to put it «lighty in the red at the end of the finance vear for the first time in many years. OHANNESBURG, the richest city in • '------j “We budgeted for a wage in­ J Africa, faces its first deficit for crease of Rl-million and the additional Rl.l-million may years and probably the biggest in its possiblv overtake the nominal surplus which we expected history at the end of the current finan­ said Mr. Patrick Lewis, deputy chairman of the Management ^ cial year. Committee, today. “But the loss, if there is one, is negligible The deficit is expected to be close when seen in relation to the to Rim, despite drastic pruning of city’s total budget of RllS.b- expenditure in all municipal million.” I. Mr. Lewis pointed out that the departments. report from the Borckenhagen Commission, which some years ; Financial experts fear it may be the start ot a ago studied the financial rela­ trend thot could threaten Johannesburg's future growth tionship between the Govern- j unless strong actidn is taken. ment, the province and the I cities, had now been completed - r They believe the measures to jw and handed to the Government10 check it could include special , powers for the City Council to I for consideration. impose a civic income tax, pur- i “We are given to understand chase tax, or taxes on enter- I that municipalities will have tainment, sales and businesses some relief if the recommenda- in the city. 1 tions of the commission are Mr. W. Canne, Johannes- ( ] agreed to,” said Mr. Lewis, burg’s City Treasurer, said j “But in any case. Johannes^ yesterday: ”It seems certain I burg’s finances are nowhere near , that the gap between municipal 1 a crisis situation. We can con­ income and expenditure will tinue to face the future with widen in future years. confidence, even with obvious "I am afraid the revenue problems ahead of us, because from property rates cannot keep ; of the basic soundness of the pace with increasing expendi­ city's finances. ture. “We are not even sure yet “ Obviously, Ihe City Council that we will end the current year will have to trim its schemes with a loss. We may carry over for the funds available. a larger surplus from last year "In time, the rate of develop­ than we budgeted for, and also, i ment will either have to be in the following year, we can decreased or new sources of expect more money from the , revenueIlUC found."1UUIIVA. j rate after the new valuation roll All municipalities were facing The wause a similar problem of rising expenditure because their re­ Mr. Carine said the esti­ sources were so limited, said mated deficit for 1966-67 was Mr. Lewis. the result of wage increases and bonus benefits, totalling about R2.1m, that had been awarded to thousands of municipal employees since the civic budget was presented in June. The city’s last budget was a record R118.Hm, almost as much as the combined budgets of Natal and the Free State. The budget allowed an amount of Rim for Hie wage increases and added benelits but the extra Rl.lrn swallowed up the nominal R21.112 sur­ plus, with which the city coun­ cil hoped to end the 1966-67 year, and left a deficit of i f CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 about Rim. “This amount could be affected slightly by a few other factors — for instance, JO ’B V H G our surplus from last year might be more than the esti­ FACES Rim mated R2.5m—but it is um likely to alter significantly, Mr. Carine said. DEFICIT expenditure had increased Indication from R18m to ' more than R7Gm in the past 20 years, the The actual deficit for this j assessment rates, which were year does not disturb Mr. the main source of finance for Carine unduly, particularly as lion-remunerative services, had a new valuation roll should in­ increased only from R4.8m to crease revenue from property R 13.4m. rates next year. I “It is clear that the council It is the indication of has toj ^ JUCfiatly on charges things to come that fills him [or amenities and services to with foreboding meet its current commitments? Proposed expenditure on the he said citv’s revenue account for the Mr Patrick Lewis, acting 1966-67 financial year were re­ chairman of the Management duced bv R5.6m before June Committee, said the council to balance the budget and keep was preparing to tackle many property rates at their present major projects, including urban level. renewal and the construction of The rates, in any case, are motorways. already 3c in the rand—the Between R40m and R47m was highest they can go without special permission from the rrn»rted for the motorways. AdmuitN'i alof í ’ Ï t Mr Caune pointed out that | thd^ti.:;M ypHci'lfi?1 K ^ a ry MANY MUNICIPALITIES HAVE FINANCIAL PROBLEMS, SAYS LEWIS City waits for revenue aid Borckenhagen proposals with Govt.

By J. C. VIVIERS Municipal Reporter J ohannesburg was one of many local authorities in need of extra sources of civic , HALL DIARY revenue, Mr. Patrick Lewis, deputy chairman of K .M . M the City Council's Management Committee, said I yesterday. Something In an interview Mr. Lewis I told me: “We have so far delayed seeking additional sources of income because we are still awaiting the recom­ mendations of the Borcken­ is quite hagen Committee.” This committee was ap­ pointed in 1956 to investigate the financial relations between local and higher authorities and it was hoped its final pro­ wrong posals, now in the hands of the Government, would bring municipalities financial relief “ in the near future.” / Reduced here "If the new measures are not forthcoming voluntarily, By J. C. VIVIERS however, we \yill have to j OMETHING seems to be it to be essential from a town- The committee was appoin­ approach the Government and wrong when some of planning point of view. ask for them,” Mr. Lewis said. S ted by the Government nearly “ But if our decisions are now 'But it is anticipated that Johannesburg’s most 10 years ago to investigate the they will be introduced.” important town planning going to be overriden with in­ financial relations between Mr. Lewis said the deficit of decisions are reversed— creasing frequency within our local and the higher authori­ municipal borders then, ties. nearly Rim predicted for without explanation — at the city at the end of this finan­ frankly, I am beginning to It has since produced several cial year because of post-bud- j provincial level. doubt the wisdom of our appli­ reports and it is hoped that get wage awards to council em- ! The two latest examples of cation for a Greater Johannes­ the recommendations in the ployees would be reduced to this are the granting of further burg.” final one — now with the Gov­ some extent by a larger surplus flat rights in Illovo and addi­ Both rezonings would serve ernment — will open new than expected from last year. tional business rights in Rose- to increase traffic congestion sources of income for local As an amount it would pos­ bank. in crowded Oxford Road, Mr. authorities. Oberholzer said, and added: sibly be the biggest deficit the Applications for both re­ At the end of the current city has ever faced but the zonings were refused earlier “Decisions of this kind are by the city council. They were helping to repeat the very mis­ financial year Johannesburg | same would not necessarily faces its first deficit for a long then submitted to the town­ takes of the past that w'e are hold true if it was looked at time. Although the amount is as a percentage of a record ships board and granted subse­ now trying to correct.” R118m-plus budget. quently by the provincial not yet significant it is an authorities. THREAT STAYS indication of a trend that may Aware This happened despite strong As there is no way of ap­ develop unless the citv gets pealing against the provincial further sources of revenue “lliere are in any case a objections from the city coun­ cil. Yet when Mr. J. F. Ober­ decisions, there is obviously that the deficit is causing con­ large number of municipalities nothing to be done now about cern. with financial problems,” Mr. holzer, chairman of Johannes­ burg’s Works and Traffic the two rezonings to which Lewis added. Mr. Oberholzer objected. RE W ORRIED "The authorities are aware Committee, afterwards asked The problem that remains, There are few local authori­ that these problems exist and in the provincial council what the. townships board recom­ however, is the threat that ties that do not need more that is why the Borckenhagen more Johannesburg decisions money for development than Committee was appointed. mendation had been on the rezonings, he was told it would may be upset in future. they get through property “If the Committee’s recom­ rstcs. mendations were not imple­ not be divulged and no reasons Johannesburg is spending a mented, and no relief was would be given. great deal of money trying to forthcoming, we would have to correct past town planning ask for further sources of re­ COST A LOT mistakes. It also pays top flow from the Borckenhagen venue.” Mr. Oberholzer, who pre­ salaries to municipal officials report, Mr. Patrick Lewis, de­ Mr. Lewis did not speculate j viously has spoken out against who expertly advise the city puty chairman of the city’s on matters such as rezonings. on what new avenues of re­ flat complexes being erected Management Committee, venue might be opened for This should at least entitle agrees that if the recommenda­ I on Johannesburg’s boundaries local authorities. the city to an explanation when tions are not implemented “we without any regard for the the advice of these men is From other sources 1 learnt town-planning problems they will be worried.” that a move was made two rejected on so important an The Government has shown cause the city, commented: issue. years ago to send a team of "We have applied to extend that it is aware of the prob­ ★ lem by appointing the Borck­ financial experts from Jo­ Johannesburg’s boundaries — hannesburg, Pretoria and the WHAT HAS HAPPENED to enhagen Committee to investi­ though it will cost us a great the recommendations of the gate it. But action on the United Municipal Association deal of money—because we felt abroad to study sources of ci­ Borckenhagen Committee? report should not be delayed. vic income tapped in other ' countries. America In America, particularly, wide-scale use is made of spe­ cial taxes on incomes, purcha­ ses, sales and businesses in the municipal areas. Some of these correspond I with suggestions reported to have been made to the Borcken­ hagen Commission that munici­ palities should be allowed to tax consumer goods and enter­ tainment in their areas. The proposed tour was ve­ toed because the Provincial authorities did not think it worthwhile while the Borcken­ hagen recommendations were still being awaited. The Borckenhagen Commit­ tee has delivered eight interim reports since 1956. Fivp of these have been made public. t a r THURSDAY, SEPT. 8, 1966______Hendrik Verwoerd * R. VERWOERD was a world figure in dramatically demonstrated than in his D a way that probably only General timing of the republican referendum. He Smuts among South African statesmen was saw through traditional prejudices and before him. Time and circumstances as fears, judged the temper of the time much as his own remarkable qualities aright, and slashed through the Gordian projected him larger than life on the world knot of an old controversy with one stroke. screen and made him the symbol of all In the story of Afrikaner politics, he will that the White man’s Africa had come to always stand out as the Moses who led his stand for. people to their promised land. He accepted the role with dignity and He displayed the same flexibility and confidence — and without apology. In the ready grasp of a situation in his dealings eyes not only of his own countrymen but with the outside world. Luck was always of the other embattled White communities with him, as it is with those who have a elsewhere he came to represent their own shrewd appreciation of where to find it. determination to hold what they had and He rejected appeasement out of hand and resist the great egalitarian tide that often chose provocation, but with a sure threatened to sweep away all they valued. understanding of the realities of power in The same posture placed him squarely the world. across the path of these forces of change and made him their principal target. His Balance-sheet granite image — a concept he did not discourage — was execrated and reviled The balance-sheet of his eight-year as a figure of oppression and the chief premiership reveals the strength and weak­ obstacle to progress in Africa and beyond. ness of his intuitions. South Africa is Yet Dr. Yerwoerd was in fact himself immensely strong and immensely un­ one of the great innovators in South popular. He failed completely to sell his African affairs. In his own way he was theory of separate freedoms to the world one of the first to accept the facts of the — the facts looked and look too damningly new post-war world and to try to educate against it. He rode apartheid too hard in a stubborn and conservative people to all its pettiness to lend verisimilitude to adapt themselves to these changes. his larger image. His was the last infirmity H e was in a real sense the architect of of a powerful and logical mind. his party’s, and thus of his country’s, But if he knew how far he could lead policy. Long before he became Prime South African opinion, he knew how far Minister he had, by the force of his per­ he could provoke the world. He skilfully sonality, begun to mould the instinctive played national interests against public but shapeless philosophy of apartheid into professions and won. But it is a game of a coherent and intellectually respectable giants, and Dr. Yerwoerd towered above canon. His theory of “separate freedoms” his colleagues who will now have to move was his most important contribution to the pieces he has placed. Afrikaner Nationalism, oppressed as it was His dominance of his party was in fact with an uneasy sense of guilt before the complete. It was largely an intellectual accusing eyes of the world. It was able to dominance and the reward of success. His hold its head up again. followers came to rely entirely on his intuitions and his eye for a situation. He Political genius was a democrat of convenience, not con­ viction. Democracy, as he showed during That these freedoms remained a theory the war years, was for him an instrument in his lifetime is one of the riddles of this of policy, not a principle. Like Dr. Malan complex man. Dr. Yerwoerd was without before him, he knew it could he used in doubt a political genius. Though not him­ the circumstances of South Africa with self South African-born, he had an un­ devastating effect to achieve the aims of erring instinct for South African and par­ Afrikaner Nationalism, and he used it with ticularly for Afrikaner sentiment and consummate skill. knew to within a fraction how far he could Not the least of his qualities was his lead or drive it. ability to project a domestic image of He was thus a master of what the fatherly benevolence. His personal charm theologians would call the economy of was proverbial, his personal integrity truth. On the best construction — it can be beyond reproach. Though not a great no more than speculation — he saw in the orator, he was unfailingly fluent and able future a much more liberal dispensation to catch the mood of his audience and of for South Africa and hoped to lead his the country. He was, as Dr. Donges said people to it in time. But he moved slowly yesterday, “resolute and indomitable,” and cautiously, and fate did not grant always the man for the hour. him the time. In the gallery of South African Prime His political flair was never more Ministers he stands among the great. STfíR lb-tí~6?& A R750,000 LOAN FOR AFRICAN Now City seeks HOUSING £ 5 > . s n . . {7/ ' y b b R1.5m African Gesture housing loan STAFF REPORTER TOHANNESBURG’S plans for eradicating the Pim- *■* ville Township slums next year were far bigger Rand mining Ilian those undertaken this year, Mr. Pat Lewis, chair­ man of the Council’s Non-European Affairs Committee, revealed last night after it had been announced that seven mining houses had made available a R75<),000 houses low interest rate loan available for African housing. The council would next year ask for a R1.5m allocation for CEVEN MINING FINANCE houses African housing from the Gov­ ernment Housing Commission. ^ today announced that they were For the 1966/67 financial year the allocation was R260.000, giving Johannesburg a R750,000 loan and Johannesburg had been faced with the prospect of clos­ ing down its African housing at a reduced rate of interest so that the division. “This year we are building city can continue building African 1.000 houses in Pimville but there are still 7,000 families houses. It is given as an 80th birthday that have to be re-housed. “This loan at 6* per cent — gift to Johannesburg. 1 per cent lower than loans from the Housing Commission In a letter to the Mayor, the money at an interest rate of and 1 per cent lower than the the mining houses said they 6£ per cent. Normal housing rate applicable to lqans ob­ understood that the house­ loans available to municipalities tained from external sources building scheme in Soweto are at 7.25 per cent. — will enable the division to At. a luncheon today the see the year through.” was short of funds because of Mayor, Mr. Boyce Eager, thanked a shortage of Government the mining houses for their ges­ BIRTHDAY GIFT housing loans. ture. He pointed out that 10 years ago Sir Ernest Oppen- The loan was given as an "The mining finance houses 80th birthday gift to Johan­ trust that the making available heimer had lent Johannesburg nesburg. of the B.750,000 loan would R6,000,000 to enable the city to enable African housing construc­ start its massive housing scheme. “Without it,” said Mr. tion to continue uninterruptedly,” The mining houses contribut­ Lewis, “we would have prob­ the letter said. ing to the loan are Anglo Ameri­ ably had to lose 300-400 highly The mining houses will lend can, Anglovaal, General Mining, skilled artisans employed by Gold Fields, J.C.I., Rand Mines the division, and would conse­ and Union Corporation. quently have, been faced with huge difficulties when we tried to start up again. Other needs “ But the mining houses saw Mr. Boyce Eager said: I the need and responded with "Because Government priority this great gesture, just as they T 17 'I has been shifted away from Bantu responded at the instigation housing— understandably because of Sir Ernest Oppenheimer 10 Loan saves of South Africa’s European im­ years ago when they gave a migration needs — plus the R6m loan for African housing.” demand for Coloured housing Mr. Lewis, who has been and rehousing, the allocation of chairman of the Non-European Pimville R l,362,000 for European and just Affairs Committee since 1958, over Rl,000,000 for Coloured said that the main reason for housing, mean that only R260,000 the small loan on African hous­ ing this year had been because had been allocated to Johannes­ of the Government priority on housing burg’s 1966/67 Bantu housing. housing for Whites and “ With the alteration in its Coloureds. Bv a Staff Reporter priority', my council faced the unenviable decision of closing its BIGGER DRIVE The mining houses’ 80th birth­ Bantu housing division. day gift to Johannesburg of a 30- “ The mines loan will ensure ! year loan of R750,000, at a re­ In these two spheres the that housing at Pimville, Johan­ drive for housing had been big- duced rate of interest, for Afri- nesburg’s last remaining slum, I ger than ever before. The allo­ I can housing, will ensure that will not be interrupted and there cation for White housing was 1 work at Pimville, Johannesburg’s Rl,362,000 and for Coloured ; last remaining slum, will not be will be no curtailment of opera­ tions. Rim, and he expected it to be ^ interrupted. “ This enables the Johannes­ just as high this year, especi- The Johannesburg City Coun­ burg City Council to keep faith ! ally for the housing of the cil’s Housing Division will now with its African population and is Whites. be free from financial worry for beyond assessment in the field of The loan of the mining at least another 12 months. human relations.” houses had come at a most A further 1,000 houses will opportune moment. The Coun­ now be built at Pimville. cil had already come to terms I with the people of Soweto on The Pimville houses are built compensation for the houses on a “ conveyor belt ” system being demolished and to have which, when the Housing Divi­ stopped on the project would sion's building activity was at its have caused great discontent. peak, completed a house every The mining houses contri­ eight minutes. Had the division's buting to the loan are: Rand activities been suspended because Mines, Anglo American. Anglq- of lack of funds it would have vaal, Gold Fields, General Min­ been costly and difficult to re­ ing, J.C.I. and Union Cor­ create it, and a well-co-ordinated poration. ! labour force would have been | lost.

(See picture, Page Four) and Johannesburg City who Councils, fiercely counteredman’s Mr. allegations Wid- conditions in in debates Lenasia. on LOW RENT “ Why is that? ” asked Mr. Members of the Consultative Mr. Mr. Ferreira told members of Also present for the inspection Later a member of the Indian there. and hospital facilities. Widman. The rent reply was was that the only they R6 had a free month and light and Committee water said turbed they at the lack were of recreational per­ Ferreira that some of thein Indians the “barracks”ing there. preferred liv­ the committee that always his door open was make if representations. they wished to which has limited administrative was Mr. Eben alist Cuyler, member a Nation­ of the Provincial functions in Lenasia) told Mr. clash clash during THE STAR JOHANNESBURG THURSDAY NOVEMBER 17 1966 NO AUTHORITY Widman, United Party M.P.C., and Mr. Eben Cuyler, NationalistM.P.C. of the Executive Committee in charge of local government, and Mr. CITED EXCHANGES broke out between Mr. Rob Ferreira, Member Two Mr. Mr. Ferreira replied: “ Well, Mr. Widman countered: “ If Mr. Mr. Ferreira’s visit to Lenasia Consultative Committee (a body At one time, after the party Lenasia houses about 20,000 The arguments in the Pro­ “ Did you notice that up to 16 “Yes, but they prefer it that area ofarea Lenasia today. \scrualor \scrualor area’ tour |7'X of veld to get to the facilities. I have go to to do the that Game too Reserve.” when I of all ages had to cross a stretch Mr. Mr. Widman in the Provincial Alf Widman, United Party M.P.C., during visita to the Indian residential had examined and communal toilets Widman ablution pointed out that Indians facilities, Mr. facilities here, I will be satisfied.” over the area at all. Indians were forced to live. you provided Game Reserve-type Indians and is Urban run by the Areas Peri- Health Board. and and Johannesburg Councils about sequel to allegations made by Johannesburg has no jurisdiction the squalid conditions in which around a structures block in of barrack-like which about 35 vincial and City Councils and families live. Thebeen buildings condemnd have are and the being families graduallybetter housing. removed to people are forced to live in some replied. of these Widman cramped asked places?” Mr. Ferreira. Mr. way,” a provincial official subsequently, have largely centred I and I other Indian areas was a graph (from left to right) are Mr. Johan van der Merwe, Director of Local Government. Mr. Rob Ferreira. M.E.C., Mr. Alf ------Provincial officials and councillors visited Lendsia today to investigate allegations about squalid living conditions. In the photo­ 36

PRE-ELECTION HEAT IN CITY irrpip. .Y2/U / (c & > , COUNCIL DEBATE

U.P. has ready answers :rp H E NATIONALIST PARTY in the Johannes- burg City Council (with the municipal elec­ tions looming in March) tried hard to press home charges of maladministration at the monthly meet­ ing of the council last night. The United Party had ready I United Party’s opposition to the answers to most of the charges extension of the Rosebank shop­ as the heated debate encompas­ ping centre. sed such topics as building by­ The Administrator, against laws, the assumption of powers the council’s wishes, has agreed by the Management Committee, to further businesses being es­ whether refuse inspectors should tablished at Rosebank. But now ride scooters or drive cars and Johannesburg feels that it has whether adequate rents had new evidence about the Rose­ been charged for hangars at the bank complex which makes it Rand Airport. undesirable to let the shopping The council had been asked by centre expand. the developers of the Carlton The Nationalists thought there Centre if some by-laws could be was some merit in the United relaxed so that American build­ Party’s attitude and gave it their ing techniques could be used. qualified support. The United Party said “ yes.” (See also Page 9) The Nationalists said “ no.” Why, they asked, should special licence be given to the Carlton Centre and not to other big buildings? TWO YEARS It was explained that if the building by-laws were to be amended it would possibly take two years before they would be in force. The Carlton Centre promoters could not wait that long. One Nationalist said: “ Why must we follow American build­ ing techniques? They voted I against us at the United Nations.” The Nationalists were also worried about an item in which the Management Committee asked if it could delegate some of its functions to other committees or officials. Management Committee mem­ bers said they were becoming hopelessly overloaded with work — serving on the committee was becoming a full-time occupation. The Nationalists seemed to see something sinister in the move, but the chairman of the commit­ tee, Mr. Pieter Roos, said he did not see why the committee should be worried by such items as requests for maternity leave. The only discussion in which there was some accord between the parties was reflected in the

/ THE STAR JOHANNESBURG WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 23 1966 Page 9 U.P. names 27 municipal candidates THE STAR JOHANNESBURG WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 23 1966 U.P. names 27 municipal cai 39 OF 42 WARDS WILL BE CONTESTED T^HE UNITED PARTY today announced the names of its candidates iti -*• 27 of the 42 municipal wards in Johannesburg for the municipal gene­ ral election on March 30. The party will contest 39 wards. Seven sitting councillors are not seeking re-election and there are 10 newcomers among the candidates. Council of the party— and Mr. Max Goodman, Mr. Alan Morris, Mr. W. Fidler, Mr. O. Caplan They include one woman— Alec Gorshel, former M.P. for Hospital. and Mr. A. Sammons. Miss Olga Sherwell, chairman of The Nationalist Party and the the Witwatersrand Women’s There are also two candidates who stood for the United Party Progressive Party have not yet in the parliamentary General announced any candidates. The Election earlier this year. They Nationalists are reported to be are Mr. David Dalling and Mr. making a strong bid to increase Dan Mahoney. their present 10 members of the There will be nomination con­ council. tests in seven other wards on The Progressive Party has November 29 and 30. asked for reports from its ward committees before deciding ALL FIVE which wards to contest. In another five wards nomi­ The following are the 27 candidates who have been nominated: nations are still being finalized Ward 1 (Linden-Blairgowrie): Mr. R. E. and the party will not put up Enthoven. Ward 2 (Craighall-Dunkeld): Councillor J. candidates in three wards. Ross Spencer (Deputy-Mayor). The nominees include all five Ward 3 (Birdhaven-Melrose): Mr. David Dalling. members of the Management Ward 4 (Bramley - Savoy - Waverley): Councillor W. C. Caldwell. Committee: Mr. P. R. B. Lewis, Ward 6 (Montgomery Park-Emmarentla Mr. A. B. Widman, M.P.C., Mr. Ext.-Westdene): Mr. Howard Manning. Ward 8 (Parkwood-Rosebank): Council­ Peter Roos, Mr. J. F. Oberholzer, lor Peter Roos. M.P.C., and Mr. M. Neppe. Ward 9 (Houghton Estate): Councillor A. D. Bensusan. The councillors who are not Ward XX (Sydenham - Sandringham): standing again are Mr. Keith G. Councillor Frank Dennis. Ward X2 (Triomf-Industria): Mr. A. S. Fleming, Mr. T. Glyn Morris, Mr. Pulvertaft. Ward X4 (Parkview-Parktown): Council­ lor P. R. B. Lewis. Ward X5 (Killarney): Miss Olga Sherwell. Ward X6 (Yeoville-Bellevue): Councillor Aleck Jaffe. Ward X7 (Observatory): Councillor I. Schlapobersky. Ward 22 (Hillbrow): Councillor Bn*. 3. C. Lemmer. Ward 23 (Berea): Councillor A. B. Widman, M.P.C. Ward 25 (Bezuidenhout Valley): Mr. Dan Mahoney. Ward 28 (Hospital-City): Mr. Alec Gorshel. Ward 29 (Doornfontein): Councillor Sam Moss. . , , Ward 30 (Bertrams-Troyeville-Fairview): Councillor Max Neppe. Ward 34 (Marshallstown-City it Subur­ ban): Councillor Monty Sklaar. Ward 35 (Heriotdale-Tulisia Park- Denver): Mr. Douglas Gibson. Ward 36 (Robertsham-Booysens): Mr. Cecil Long. Ward 37 (Turffontein-Ophirton): Council­ lor Dr. V. V. Boy. M.P.C. Ward 38 (Kenilworth - Rosettenville); This map shows how the 42 municipal wards in Johannesburg have been delimita Councillor J. F. Oberholzer, M.P.C. Ward 39 (La Rochelle-The Hill-Regent's takes place on March 30. There have been considerable changes to the boundaries, Park): Councillor A. David Zakar. Ward 40 (Chrisville-Haddon-Forest Hill): to be of crucial importance in the struggle between the United Party and the Natio Mr. Jimmy Hall. Ward 4X (Rosettenville Ext.-The Hill local authority. Ext.): Councillor Boyce Eagar. % 1) U ^ 7 ín " 7 &icJnon^> 77---- The Story of Soweto \ e c ■ < 9 ^ Johannesburg will not be ‘City within a City’ is liit by new “ squeeze” life is emerging, said Mr Lewis. There are church associations, JOHANNESBURG does not developing own choral societies, football clubs, J expect to have to cut school associations, chambers its capital programme much to comply with the Govern­ of commerce, advisory boards ment’s request to local cutting across ethnic grouping. authorities to keep spending community life There is increasing interest at the absolute minimum. in the amenities provided by Mr. Patrick Lewis, vice- the City Council in the way of chairman of the Johannes­ STORY of early indifference, of appalling slums, burg Management Commit­ entertainments and sporting of high mortality rates, of neglect, and then a story tee, said today that every 1 A events, as well as libraries and yqfir Johannesburg was of achievement on a massive scale, of the acceptance of books in hospitals, all filling asked by the Treasury to ! responsibility by the mother city of Johannesburg for a very real need. keep its spending within a certain figure. the well-being of the people of Soweto— that was the As in other large cities there are also the spivs and city “ The Treasury tells us story told by Mr Patrick Lewis, deputy chairman of the how much money we can slickers, added Mr Lewis, and City Council’s Management Committee and chairman borrow for our capital pro­ one of the greatest needs in gramme. We met Treasury of the Non-European AfEairs Committee. officials about three weeks Mr. Lewis was speaking on A ‘City’ within a City— ago, and it was agreed at the meeting that we could the Creation of Soweto during a commemorative series carry on pretty well accord­ of lectures at the University of the Witwatersrand. ing to our budget,” Mr. Lewis said. It was a story, he said, of Present legislation, must de­ Johannesburg would there­ velop the advisory boards and material development but fore not have to abandon urban councils as the outlets any major schemes. also a human story of for leadership and respons­ In the last financial year people forced within a ibility. Johannesburg saved R2-5- 'The urban council must be million on the amount short space of time to make given administrative authority which had been set aside adaptations, to change age- for capital development. within the capabilities of its Mr. Lewis pointed out j old concepts and customs, members. It must be more today that Johannesburg j patterns of living and than advisory. could not, for instance, cut | ‘What has been accepted in down on its expensive | working. housing standards to date will motorways project. 'Material progress has “ Once you have started be rejected in years to come. a scheme of that magni­ resulted, and will continue,’ As land within reasonable city tude you have to complete he observed, 'but further limits is used up, future build­ it, otherwise there would be isolated bits of road here adaptations will be neces­ ings will need to be multi­ and there which would be sary, and the granting of storey. 'This will require further j of no use to anyone,” Mr. further responsibilities and Lewis said. adaptation to changes in living The Civic Centre project participation in administra­ patterns, the younger genera­ planned for the city will tion must follow. tion will acquire skills not pos­ also be an expensive one. sessed by their parents, and Large expenditure on the Leadership new employment outlets will project will not be necessary | for another few months. 'Means must be found to have to be found.’ Johannesburg has already develop leadership among the Class structure asked the Treasury for per­ urban Bantu, and outlets for mission to borrow the their aspirations. The Johan­ In Soweto today a class necessary capital. nesburg City Council, operat­ structure based on education, ing within the compass of occupation, wealth and way of Mr. Patrick Lewis Photo: The Star Soweto was, he felt, to pro­ vide the law-abiding citizen with protection. For a large portion of the people in Soweto, he pointed out, one of the ever-present problems is that of making ends meet. To some extent, in these days of full employ­ ment and more adequate wages, their hardships had been mitigated, he said. Mr Lewis traced in detail the history of Johannesburg’s African housing problem since its early years through the shantytown period up to the large-scale building and re­ housing schemes undertaken in the past ten years by the City Council and the Government. To the end of June, 1965, the Council spent a capital amount of R53,488,569 on the provision of African housing and amenities. Of that amount R13,415,644 was laid out in the two years 1957 to 1959.

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