-M 53 Page 10 SOWETAN, Wednesday, August 26, 1987 COMMENT Why E Decorative folk vi puppets j'lO -> T first glance the drama be­ to sta tween the State President and the Rev M r Allan Hendrickse is HOUS ANDS of residents of t A kraal can be cxcused for being a sad one, with Mr Hendrickse getting a raw deal from Mr Botha. T:proposals to acquire their lam But when you look a little longer you tow n . realise that there is nothing that Mr The remote farm is surrounded by a sea of Hendrickse is losing: be continues to whiie-owned farms and get his full salary as a Minister in spite there does not seem to be residents n of having resigned from the Cabinet any justification for cious is and he continues to get all the perks of creating a black town­ Government being a Minister. ship on it on the basis buy the land The rest is just a lot of words . . . that it will service the lo them at What in fact makes this a sad story neighbouring towns. price" is f is that Mr Hendrickse and other It is situated about 25 consolidate the homela blacks in the km from the nearest town. Volksrust, and Ngwane. went against the wishes of the majority about 28 km from T he cor in this country and got involved in Amersfoon. The two plans, annoi second class politics. Tbey argued that towns are so small that Chris Heuni: they would fight from they cannot support a Constitutior w ithin. large workforce if the ment and 1 They are now getting frustrated by Government goes ahead June this the system, but instead of nodding with its proposals 10 turn opened old v their heads and getting out, they are the farm into a rural a few mon Government dancing this graceless dance. regional town. incorporate When they tried to block some There are no industrial areas in the vicinity of KaNgwane. security legislation last year, the Daggakraal to justify the The plot Go> eminent — the people who really need for the development described tl run this country — went over their of a township. Already a as a “ back ci heads and turned the Bills into law. black township in the trying to fo And just to make certain the blacks vicinity of Volksrust is move lo a in Parliament knew who «us boss, the plagued by a high rate of place foil Government added the present state of unemployment. reprieve frc emergency to the two security Bills. T h e Daggakraal ration into community, which land. Dagj Hendrickse then tried to fight swelled to more than reprieved apartheid outside Parliament by 45 000 people since the Governmens swimming at a “whites-only" beach in land was bought in 1912 that it woul . After that well- — a year before the Land force people publicised demonstration Mr Botha Act of 1913 was passed The reside if the Gi cracked tbe whip and Mr Hendrickse — is dependent on carries out i was forced to apologise. subsistence farming for * its livelihood. More than to develop ih 4 M r Hendrickse and his colleagues in 95 percent of those township. { |the House of Representatives and the residents who a r e will not affoi • y »i* ' D e le g a te s a r e a patbeticicrt. employed wont in and '•ena^tr* [ And they will continue to be for as long around Johannesburg, charges am as they continue to remain in about 350 km away. Ekangala as Parliament as decorative puppets. What makes the “ If ihe & Collection Number: AK2117

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