An Exclusive Interview with Souphanouvong, the People's Prince

i NEW a g e THURSDAY. JUNE 15, 1961 NEW AGE THURSDAY, JUNE J5, 1961 Anna Louise Strong In Laos HUNT FOR SCAPEGOATS to be in difficulties with their studies An Exclusive Interview as a result of the extra three week break. They were all in good spirits, however, and proud of the success AT FORT HARE of their collective action. As one student .said: “This strike was not With Souphanouvong, undertaken in an irresponsible man ner. We know that it Is impossible Student Solidarity Places Rector In a Dilemma to make people listen to our grie the change in official policy might vances without strong joint action |IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIilllllllllllllllll^ JOHANNESBURG. on our part.” J^ORT Hare students ordered be due to the desire of the autho People's rities to find some scapegoats who HEARTENED The Prince home after the closing of I Wife Joins Husband j could be expelled as a warning to The student went on to say that the College for three weeks as others. they had been most heartened by By Anna Louise Strong, If the “beautiful words” of the earlier situation had the power This was difficult to do at present, the solidarity shown by the Rhodes of the UJS. National Guar^an Americans about peace and neu to halt what the Prince regarded I In Exile | a result of the 100 per cent stay-away there on May 29 and because even the police informers students, who had stay^ away from trality in Laos are sincere, he as an American-incited war of I JOHANNESBURG. | and the sons ofthe Chiefs had parti all lectures and sporting activities SAM NEUA, LAOS. said, “if they really want peace, invasion. = Mrs. Mantlatle Nkadimeng, = 30 are amazed at the recent cipated in the strike. for two days last week in protest unity, neutrality and independence = the 26-year-old wife of Mr. = statement by the College Rec PRECISELY where I met EXAMPLE OF KOREA If earlier incidents in which stu against the closure of Fort Hare. in Laos, then we can come to = Steven Nkadimeng of Manga- = tor that packing them off home dents had expressed severe criticism He said: “The militant spirit of Prince Souphanouvong must agreement with them.” But, he = neng in Sekhukhuneland, is = had nothing to do with the of the College Council to Mr. Saul students of all races in our country be off the record. But with said, it was difficult to believe the Bitter Asian experience lies behind = happy today for the first time = Mabude, who is one of its mem will help to ensure the establish three other correspondents (I was Americans were sincere because Souphanouvong’s suspicions. In = in over three years. She is to E strike. bers, were to be used instead as a ment of the type of non-racial de the only American and the only both their past actions and their Korea the cease fire promised a = be re-united at last with her E One of the 300 Fort Hare pretext for disciplinary action mocracy that will enable us to^ hold woman) 1 sat and talked for an present “are not directed towards later political conference to unify = husband, who has been in exile E students told New Age: ‘After we against the students, it would make our head high in the community of peace.” the nation; but for 10 years = since March 1958. E had stayed quietly in our rooms the job a far easier one for the African nation*.” evening with the half-brother of Washington has blocked this and Laos’ exiled Premier Souvanna E Mr. Nkadimeng, one of the E for three days we came to breakfast College staff. FOOTNOTE: The closing of ^Why is the UJS. just now de Korea remains divided. In Laos, E staunchest opponents of Bantu E on Thursday morning to find notices The student group as a whole is Phouma, who organised and for the Pathet Lao, winning against Fort Hare is condemned in a state 15 years has been the chairman manding a cease fire?^ he E Authorities in his area, was E on the boards that all lectures had certain that not all their members ment by the Natal Indian Congress of the Neo Lao Haksat, the Pa France, were promised in Geneva PUBLIC COURT E charged in 1958 with incite- E been cancelled because of our will be allowed to continue with asked. With a smile he con that they would be incorporated E ment to protest against existing E as “another cowardly act of the triotic Front of Laos, better tinued: action. Later we were informed that their studies next month, because Nationalist Government in dealing known as the Pathet Lao. into the Royal Army with offi -BU T NO E laws, and sentenced to two E the College was closed till the be when they applied for the usual with legitimate and genuine grie cers’ ranks preserved and that the E years in jail. E ginning of next term, and the in Railway concession forms they vances of the African people.” The The meeting place was not far from “You are journalists and to you the Neo Lao Haksat would be E On his release, and before E reason must be clear. Our patri formation from the Rector was were told that they would be sent Congress demands that the college the Prince’s present base in the legalised as a political party in E he even had the chance to visit E again linked with the holding of a to them by post. be re-opened immediately and the capital of Sam Neua Province, otic forces are wiimioK while the free elections. ROOM FOR E his home, he was banidied to E enemy forces are demoralieed and successful strike.” A number of students interviewed students allowed to complete their the north-eastern province of E a remote comer of Northern E The student went on to say that by New Age said that they expected studies. Laos, in a simply furnished recep even disintegrating. So those who The Pathet Lao turned in their ^ S M' ' ‘ E Zululand, where he has been E tion room. are losing want to negotiate. arms (5,000 rifles, according to THE PUBLIC E ever since. = Prince Souphanouvong) and dis f ' E Mrs. Nkadimeng, who spoke E The Prince is a solidly built man, “Now, since our basic policy is persed most of their men to their peace and neutrality, we also are ABOVE: About 700 arrested E of her difficulties during this E bronzed and muscular from out homes. Two battalions remained Africans locked into the yard of E long period with courage and E door living, with thick black hair willing to negotiate. Our Neo Lao for incorporation into the Royal = a quiet strength, said that her E clipped close. He wore an ordi Haksat has declared that we are Army. I'he First Battalion was the Johannesburg Native Com- ^ ...... -mk = husband had not seen their E nary civilian tan suit, with a tan for any talks that will establish split into small groups under new mis iioner’s Court, and thick = small son since he was four E and dark red necktie flowing free. peace in Laos. But we want to commanders, with their officers’ E months old. She had lived E teel sure that what we are get crowds of relatives outside, wait His manner was confident, with ranks unrecognised. When their ing for hours to see if their miss = alone all this time, and had e out exaggeration and his words ting this time is a permanent leaders protested, an American- = cared for their land by herself. E were clear in a way that indi peace, a permanent cease fire. We financed coup d’etat installed a ing men are in the court, to pass = Mrs. Nkadimeng said that E cated long experience in politics think the U.S. wants just a tem new premier, who rescinded the in money for bail and food for S she did not know whether her e and battles, combined with a porary cease fire in which to = husband had been able to ob- = strengthen their disintegrating parliamentary immunity of the the prisoners. The hearings are quick, keen analytical mind. He Neo Lao Haksat leaders and supposed to be in public but the = tain work. She told New Age = spoke English correctly but rather forces and prepare a bigger jailed eight of them, including = that it was through the assist- e slowly and was more at home in counter-attack. Prince Souphanouvong himselt. court is too small to accommo = ance of the Human Rights E French. So the talk was mainly in “They use beautiful words, but At that time he was Minister of date all who want to get in. = Welfare Fund that her journey = French, with his interpreter trans what are their actions? They are Reconstruction and Planning in RIGHT: NO CASUAL PEEP- Ejhad been made possible. = lating; but the Prince quickly parachuting troops into new areas the cabinet. SHOW THIS, but a search for .illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllli picked up questions in English to widen the war. They are bring and seemed to check carefully arroited men locked up in the ing in new and heavief weapons, THE JAIL-BREAK yard of the Native Commis the translator’s words. and helicopters for wider troop transport. They set up bases in The Second Battalion of the Pathet sioners Court in Fordsburg. It is Don’t Kill My Daddy’ WHAT IT MEANS Thailand close to Laos for more Lao, with its political leaders high time relatives were given de rapid invasion. They issue war (Continued from page 1) “How shall I most simply explain jailed, was encircled by a vast cent facilities to trace prisoners threats by eight nations through number of hostile troops which at this court. whip-round to raise bail money for to Americans the meaning of the SEATO and stage big war ma ‘Pathet Lao’?’’ 1 asked. The sought to disarm it. But the batta Mr. Peake, passed a resolution noeuvres off Borneo, and the lion collected its families and to of protest at the brutal methods Prince said: “The name was U.S. Fleet keeps threateningly given us in Geneva. Our official gether they fought their way which had been used to secure his close to our borders. This is not through successive encirclements arrest, and marched in a body to name is ‘Neo Lao Haksat.’ We the spirit of peace that the U.S. Caledon Square to find out what were organised to fight for the for more than a year, and finally shows, but the spirit of an in made their way to home bases to Mass Arrests Cause An had happened to him. independence of Laos against the vading war.” organise and await events. After learning that he had been Japanese and then against the arrested under the Suppression of Sixty-three African furniture workers in a Johannes burg factory were brought to court last week on a French. We fought as did similar THE “ADVISERS” ON MAY 23, 1960, AFTER 10 Communism Act, and that his wife charge of striking illegally. Their case was postponed to July 22. patriotic organisatioas in Vietnam and lawyer would be allowed to see and Cambodia until the famous MONTHS IN PRISON, SOU Ocean Of Misery" him, the crowd dispersed, heartily victory at Dien Bien Phu. Then As the Prince saw it, the question PHANOUVONG AND THE booing the Special Branch men who we sent our delegates along with was not even whether or not the OTHER SEVEN LEADERS Women^s Deputation To Johannesburg Official stood on guard at the entrance to Furniture Workers Chorged with Illegal Strike others to Geneva to negotiate the U.S. forces would invade. In his MADE A SENSATIONAL JAIL- Caledon Square. peace. view, they had already invaded— SPEAKERS in December, 1960, together with BREAK, TAKING THE JAIL “It fills us with indignation and “We had the habit of putting the JOHANNESBURG. Earlier the meeting had been ad “several thousand troops from GUARDS WITH THEM OUT ^ H E mass arrests of hundreds resentment to have our hu>bands dressed by a number of speakers. words ‘Pathet Lao’ at the head of Thailand, from Chiang Kai-shek, OF VIENTIANE. and sons dragged before courts like June 26 Issue of Chairman Mr. Cardiff Maraey BOSS DIDN'T COMPLAIN BUT our documents and letters, to dis from South Vietnam and several of African workers in Jo common criminals,” she told Mr. said: “We will continue to combat tinguish them from all the other hundred Filipinos and Americans, “We were without arms and our hannesburg last month charged de Ross. “But what is more intoler Fighting Talk the tyranny under which we suffer. documents. The words mean the latter as ‘advisers’ but actually forces had been dispersed to their with various petty pass offences able is that those people branded We demand the total abolition of ‘Land of Laos’ . . . So the French in command.” The question, home provinces,” the Prince re in order to smother the anti- ‘idlers’ and ‘tsotsi elements’ by the JOHANNESBURG. apartheid.” began calling us the ‘Pathet Lao’ therefore, was: “Will the U.S. called in our interview. “1 myself police are responsible workers who Mr. Zollie Malindi: “Phase one of STATE LAUNCHED PROSECUTION widen the present invasion into a walked all the way to Sam Neua. Republic demonstrations have merely failed to have their pas',es The June 26—Freedom Day— the struggle announced by the Ma- . . . The name was given not by our signed by their employers or who issue of FIGHTING TALK fea JOHANNESBURG. they were merited. The workers the tw'o hours work that they had large-scale war or will she stop It took many months, for 1 had merely increased the burden on ritzburg conference is over. Now we just missed. Mr. Samuel told the de selves but despite ourselves. We invading and negotiate?” to organise evei7 iH'ovince as I are in arrears with their general tures special articles on the history gIXTY-TH REE African fur then left. let it stick. We are a wide front the African residents of Johan must prejpare for the stage of non- DEPUTATION putation that the firm would only passed in order to get through. tax. Now more people are out of of the freedom struggle in South co-operation with the White Repub niture workers appeared in of many organisations that has “For us it is a big concession to nesburg, and the City Council work because of the arrests.” Africa. Joe Matthews writes in ‘The On Monday—the day of the pay them for half this period. At lic. Close your ranks and await the the Magistrate’s Court here last this the entire labour force went fought for more than 15 years for negotiate, for we are winning,” “By the time I reached Sam Neua will have to take the conse Roaring Years’ the 50-year history next call.” alleged strike—he was summoned to the independence and unity of the bloodless coup by Captain Mr. De Ross gave the women’s of the now banned African Nation week chained with participating the factory, where he found all the home, but they returned to work said Souphanouvong. “But in quences of this police swoop. delegation a sympathetic hearing. He Adv. Albie Sachs: “The CPC’s in Laos as a sovereign and neutral view of American actions, we Kong Lae in Vientiane on August al Congress; Fatima Meer writes terim leaders are to be congratu in an illegal strike. workers standing outside the gate the following day, and there had state.’’ 9, 1960, had returned to power There are now more people be said the Johannesburg City Council the history of Indian piolitical instead of at work. He received a been no further difficulties. must be vigilant. In our view, the hind with their rent payments than was aware of the difficulties of some lated on organising this meeting so The charge is a sequel to a dis conference of the Fourteen Na the government of Prince Sou struggles in this country; and the soon after the lifting of the ban. pute between the workers and the report from his foreman on the LOW WAGES CEASE FIRE tions is the only correct and vanna Phouma, which the before the advent of the Republic. of the residents in the Townships; issue includes articles on the 1922 situation, and as a result a further Under cross-examination Mr Thousands of residents have already that the City Council had dropped They are holding the flag of liberty owners of Marshall Manufacturers reasonable way.” American-inspired coup had mine strike and the great African for all who want freedom in Sk)uth in January this year, when the deputation of workers came to see Samuel admitted that the wage of The talk began with recent reforms thrown out more than a year been prosecuted and many con certain cases against defaulters, al mine strike of 1946. him. £2. 5. a week was very low. He said in Sam Neua and passed by easy Such a conference, he said, includ victed for failing to pay their though the Council was faced with Africa. We stand by our leaders. workers asked for an increase. earlier. Then all over Laos the This souvenir number also con They can lock us all up, they can Mr. Rudolph Samuel, a director In the discussion with them he re that at no stage had the workers stages to the international situa ing the big powers of the Geneva people began throwing out the monthly rentals. Now more workers an amount of R500,0(X) in arrears threatened him, that both these and tion and the question of negotia are out of work owing to the arrests. to be collected; and that in cases of tains a Freedom Calendar covering cram the jails, fill Robben Island to of the company, told the Court that peated his earlier promise and pro settlement and the smaller na local despots installed by the last 60 years of struggle. overflowing, but there will always he was approached by representa mised further that an incentive earlier wage discussions had always tion and a cease fire. The Prince tions neighbouring on Laos, had America’s strong man General Their families suffer terrible hard severe hardship food and parcels been amicable, and that his firm were being issued. ‘Fighting Talk’ is sold at 6d. (5 be South Africans to carry on the tives of the workers on a Friday bonus scheme would be introduced at all times spoke without hedg the ability to ensure neutrality Phouma Nosavan. Sam Neua was ship. in sections of the factory to enable had definitely not wanted to insti ing; but he prefaced his remarks and peace in Laos. In his view, cents) a copy. Bulk copies (over one fight.” prior to the ‘strike.’ The spokesmen liberated at the end of September, A women’s delegation led by The women acknowledged dozen) will be supplied at 4d. (3 There was thunderous applause requested a general increment in these workers to earn more. tute proceedings. (The case was on the last question by saying until such a conference could 1960. Mrs. Ruth Matsoane told the Senior After the deputation had reported brought by the Department of Lab that the matter was “delicate” authorise and direct an interna this but added that h was just cents) a copy. Single and bulk when Mr. Sachs called on the wives wages. He explained to the workers Superintendent, Mr. De Ross, that copies can be obtained from the of the arrested leaders—Mrs. Peake, that the Company would not give a back to the workers he was told our.) and the situation subject to tional control commission, no ‘We began rebuilding our forces at the situation had become intolera “a drop of good in the ocean of that they would accept his offer on Mrs. Muller is appearing for the change ‘Fighting Talk’ Committee, P.O. Mrs. la Guma and Mrs. Mohammed general increase in wages, but that such commission derived from an once.” ble. misery.” Box 1355, Johannesburg. —to come and sit on the platform. increments would be given when condition that they were paid for workers, and the case is proceeding. ' sasag j Verwoerd thinks "Civilisation'' was made by and for Europeans only, but | AFRICAN IN COURT j the facts show that Black Civilisations flourished in Africa long before I the coming of the White man IN PYJAMAS JOHANNESBURG. His wife had given birth to their first son the day of her ^ N African arrested dur husband’s arrest and was un able to send any clothes to him ing the police pre in the cells. When she tried a strike swoop on Alexandra few days later she could not Township spent 22 days in trace his whereabouts. the cells and finally ap In court the same day that HISTORY AND Sadika appeared were numbers peared in court dressed in of other so-called ‘foreign’ a pair of pyjamas. Africans rounded up and In court he was sentenced to charged for pass offences as 60 days in prison or a fine of part of the mid-May mass R20. arrests. James Musa Sadika was FOOTNOTE: New Age arrested in the early hours of readers have met James Musa CIVILISATION the morning of May 17 be Sadika before. He was the tween his room and the lava African, sent illegally to the D R Verwoerd recently as “Behold it is not to make for tion of West Africa to be pub tory in the yard where he lives. Potgieter farm under the farm sured us once again that himself slaves of any people,” lished in Europe. The police refused to allow labour scheme, who was traced stated the traditional address de him to dress. He was put in a by New Age and freed by a “it is the White man to whom livered by the Egyptian Pharaoh E Its author, Leo Africanus, van and driven to the Wynberg habeas corpus application to all progress must be ascribed two thousand years before the E described to his astounded police station. court. Sadika is the African in birth of Christ. E readers the huge libraries of From there he was sent to sacks in the cover picture of of which people all over the E African scholars in university world at present boast.” Upon assuming office, high the Modder B jail where he the New Age booklet ‘The state officials in Ancient Egypt E towns like Timbuktu, the great spent the cold winter days in Farm Labour Scandal’ by Ruth The learned Doctor obvi were told: “Forget not to judge S wealth of the African rulers his pyjamas. First. ously knows nothing or pre E and merchants, their efficient justice . . . Look upon him who is = and peaceful administration fers to know nothing about known to thee like him who is = and other matters which might the history of Europe, Asia or unknown to thee; and him who is = make many an inhabitant of Africa. He finds it more con near the king like him who is far = war-torn sixteenth century from his house.” =; Europe feel envious. venient to replace history by The social philosophy of An POLICE SHOT HIM myth, just like his admired cient Egypt reached its climax in Civilisation has never been con model, Alfred Rosenberg, the fined to particular human groups “philosopher” of Nazi Ger but has grown step by step |lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll| through the contribution of peo DEAD many. ple of every race and colour. At According to one of the most j r/ie first of 4 articles | different historical periods diffe (Continued from page 1) in a pool of blood in his yard with cherished myths of the racialists rent kinds of contributions have three bullet holes in his body. Europeans created civilisation out I written for New Age | been made by different kinds of who said that they would only re Mr. Mdunge rushed in to Durban of nothing, rather like God cre people. Some contributed new pair the tank if they were paid for on Friday morning to report the ating the world out of chaos. technical discoveries, others new their labour and if their womenfolk matter to the lawyer who appeared I by A Special | ideas and others again new kinds were paid for filling the tank week for the people in the area when they = But the blea>ings of civilisa- of artistic production. by week. were charg^. = titm are not the property of I Correspondent j The European pirates and In an interview with New Age, = any one human group which traders who penetrated into the Mr. Vitus Mdunge a tribesman, said POLICE DIDN’T KNOW? = they can graciously distribute ^llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltlllllllllllllllllllllllllli Indian Ocean during the sixteenth that the people in the area were E or rightfully keep, as they see century did not and could not brought before a magistrate on two Mr. George Mbele, acting on be = lit. Civilisation happens to be the universal moral doctrines of consider themselves more civilised occasions and on each occasion they half of Messrs N. T. Naicker and = the product of mankind as a Ikhnaton (fourteenth century than the ancient communities were discharged. Company, phoned the Inanda police = whole and to its developmenl B.C.). In his beautiful hymns which they attacked. They killed Last Thursday the police arrived and was informed that the police = peoples from all over the Ikhnaton makes no distinction be and plundered in the name of the at the kraal of Mr. Dhladhla to were surprised to hear that Mr. = world have contributed. No tween his own people and Christian religion, not in the name serve him with another summons. Dhladhla had been killed. = group, least of all the people foreigners. of “White Civilisation.” Fourteen Non-White and five White In the meantime, however, = from the North and West of Western technicaJ superi armed police were in the contingent according to a press interpiew pub = Europe, who arrived so recent- = All men are in the same de- which arrived, said Mr. Mdunge. lished in the ‘Natal Merewy’ the = ly on the hldorical scene, can 5 gree God’s sons and must re- ority is hardJy more than two following morning, the police had M claim a monopoly of contribu- = gard themselves as brothers. centuries old, and it is already Mr. Mdunge did not know what stated that they were fired on by E tions to civilisation. = For the first time in human being lost again. lappened between the police and Mr. Dhladhla at point blank range, = history religion is conceived as VIr. Dhladhla, but when the police that his gun misfired and that when E a bond uniting men of differ- (To be continued next week) left, Mr. Dhladhla was lying dead he tried to fire again the police West Came Late E ing colour, language and were compelled to shoot him. E custom. After they had told Mr. Mbele One wonders where civilisation As Legislative Council Meets that they did not know of the death would be if Asian and African of Mr. Dhladhla, the police asked peoples had not invented the use Greek Learning that Mr. Mdunge, who had reported of writing, discovered how to the matter to Mr. Mbele, should go smelt iron and cultivate grains, to the Inanda police station to created the wheel, produced multi The wisdom of the Bronze Age BATSWANA DEMAND make a statement. plication tables and minted coins civilisations of the ancient Near on universal suffrage for all races, They promised to send a van to thousands of years ago before the East provided the basis for the tribes and peoples of Bechuanaland pick him up and take him to In people of Europe emerged from later cultural achievements of the was passed unanimously at the first anda so that he could accompany the most primitive savagery. Greeks who were great traders REFORMS public meeting of the Bechuanaland them to Mr. Dhladhla’s kraal. We could easily fill several and travellers and so were able to People’s Party held in Lobatsi re 1 was present when the police benefit by learning from the Asian PALAPYE. cently. arrived to meet Mr. Mdunge. They issues of New Age if we tried to and African peoples with whom YY^l DESPREAD dissatisfaction give an exhaustive list of Asian The resolution demanded an promised that nothing would be they came into contact. * * has been voiced in Bechuana- African majority in place of the done to him and further promised, and African contributions to civi land because no move has be^ lisation because it would turn out Subsequently, the barbarian in present minority, and jwstal voting after giving their names to Mr. to be practically a history of vaders from Northern Europe made to amend the constitution in for Bechuanaland citizens living Mbele, to bring Mr. Mdunge back human civilisation as such. destroyed the old Graeco-Roman regard to the establishment of the temporarily outside the territory. to Mr. Mbele’s office. slave civilisation and most of its Legislative Council. White civilisation, in the cultural achievements. Europe The Council, which is due to JO’BURG DELEGATION SENT HOME “purity” with which it is propa entered the long period of its meet this month, consists of non- More than 300 people, including gated in Verwoerd’s South Africa, Dark Ages, while the cultural African members elected by the seven delegates from the BPP’s Jo- The next morning (Saturday) a does not compare too welt with heritage of the ancient world was White and Asian communities and hannesiburg branch led by the boy from the location arrived with the ancient civilisations of Asia productively developed by the Africans chosen by the Chiefs in branch secretary Mr. Anderson a note stating that the police had and Africa. great civilisation of the Arabs. their African Council. Mbakile, attended the meeting. refused to take Mr. Mdunge to the Just to hike one example from The creation of the Legislative kraal and that he had been sent When the Crusaders from Wes Speakers included BPP President back to his home. the material sphere, it may sur tern Europe invaded the Near East Council has been welcomed every and Secretary-General, Messrs K. T. prise some of the pundits of where, but not its colour-bar con The youngster said that Mr. from the end of the eleventh cen Motsete and Motsamai K. Mpho Mdunge had therefore sent him apartheid to know that the elabo tury A.D. onwards they were stitution, which deprives the African respectively, and Messrs K. K. rate drainage system of the an people of the direct vote, although Motshidisi, G. Mogotsi, Phillip Ma- with a note which stated that the amazed to find themselves in the police refused to go to the dead cient Indian cities which flourished presence of a civilisation far more both Asians and Europeans enjoy tante and Mbakile. on the river Indus about 4,000 this right. The peoples of Bechuanaland man’s kraal and asked Mr. Mdunge years ago was superior to that advanced than their own. The to get the people to carry Mr. provided by White civilisation in same discovery was made by the UPHEAVALS LIKELY must unite to form one nation, said Dhladhla’s body about five or six Venetian traveller Marco Polo Mr. Mpho. The people were no miles to a spot which was “safer.” that part of its towns which it when he visited China in the thir Both Mr. Patrick Tshane, chair longer prepared to live as “'boys refers to ai the “location.” man of the Palapye Branch of the This the people said they could teenth century and found there a and girls,” hewers of wood and not do as there were not enough degree of culture which made Bechuanaland People’s Party, and drawers of water. Colour bars and Mr. K. K. Motshidisi, the secretary, male members of the tribe avail most of Europe look like a discrimination must go. able to carry the body such a long Moral Ideas jungle. have sent statements to New Age At a Bechuanaland People’s Party condemning the present set-up. meeting held at the Francistown distance. And the moral ideas of these Mr. Tshane says that if the Le Location on May 28, Mr. Phillip G. Even telephone calls to the local ancient civilisations would seem to Surprise In Africa gislature does not reconstitute the Matante, Vice-President of the magistrate failed to get the police have risen to a conception of Legco, this will pwovoke controver Party, told a crowd of 700 men and to go into the area to investigate universal justice and human sies and upheavals which might women that one man one vote was this matter. brotherhood which is far beyond And a similar surprise awaited well make the Legco unworkable. the only way to peace and the pre Frantic efforts were being made the grasp of the “civilised” de the readers of the first reliable A resolution demanding Falling sent constitution should be rejected to get the body to the police sta fenders of Afrikaner tribalism. description of the Negro civilisa by ballot on a common roll based by the people. tion over the week-end.

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