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P A. THE STAR JOHANNESBURG WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 6 1968 APARTHEID IDEALS CANNOT ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ BE REALIZED: BLI NT WARNING
By Our Political Correspondent TN A SPEECH critical of the progress being made with the application of apartheid, one of Afrikanerdom’s leading sociologists has told his fellow- Afrikaners bluntly: “ Forget about the ideals and the maximum targets of apartheid— these will never be reached. In a speech to junior and the Bantu areas as the English senior members of the Rappor- man and foreigner played in tryerskorps at Kempton Park last relation to Afrikaner develop LINK night Prof. N. J. Rhoodie, of the ment,” he asked. University of Pretoria, came out If the homelands’ development in full support for a tempo was analysed, one could AFRICAN “ volkskongres ” that would take only come to the conclusion that a hard, realistic look at apart it would have to be considerably heid. speeded up and expanded if the He said the congress should proposed economic magnetism AREAS TO take the iniative in providing that would draw Africans to the South Africa with a blueprint of reserves was ever to be the minimum objectives. The created. STATES’ maximum targets would never be But, in stead of progress, there reached but South Africa had to were massive arrears. By Our Political Correspondent know where it stood in relation Has the time come to tell South to minimum targets. Statistics about the job needs for the Bantustans told a single, African Swazis, Tswanas, and “ In this way we will at least clear story: “ Even in relation to South Sothos living on or close know where we stand,” he told to the borders of Swaziland. Bot his audience. the minimum demands made by the supporters of apartheid for swana and Lesotho, that their UNHAPPY the successful application of ethnic-national future lies in j policy, there will have to be a these countries? Professor Rhoodie. v made , it lauiuaxradical intervention venuuii nif theremere 15Is to clear that he was unhappy about be any chance, within the next 30 This question was asked last j “ 1 development of th e : or 50 years, of the establishment night by Professor N. J. Rhoodie, I of the Department of Sociology , th® key t0 the : of a White South Africa in which successful application of apart-, the Whites will have of the University of Pretoria, in a majority an address to junior and senior ..ah ,. , „ in their homeland.” All our pretty plans for the Rapportryers of Kempton Park. elimination of Bantu labour will Strongly supporting a peoples’ ' work out to a round nil if such a congress on the progress o f ! process is not synchronized with Multiple pile-up apartheid, Professor Rhoodie said | the creation of substitute employ the congress could examine the j ment in the homelands.” future of those African areas in He called for a greater of 50 vehicles South Africa which, on the sur “White” role in the development LONDON, Tuesday.— Britain’s face, could never develop into of the homelands and pointed out viable fatherlands but which that English domination of South first real wintry weather brought traffic chaos to parts of the could be joined to ethnically- Africa’s economy in the early related neighbouring states. years had stimulated the Afri country today. kaner into economic activity — More than 50 cars and trucks He named as examples the the Afrikaner learned well and were in a multiple pile-up when South Sotho fragments near he made use of the growth points dense fog clamped down on a Lesotho which could easily be and opportunities created by the j major Midlands road between joined to that country, the num English businessmen and indus- Derby and Nottingham, ber of Tswana spots near Bot trialists. Police said visibility was down swana and the Swazi spot north of Swaziland which could be “ Can we not arrange matters to 10 yards in places and des in such a way today that the cribed conditions as chaotic. One attached to Swaziland and Bot Whites1 knowledge and economic I person died and a woman was swana respectively. power can play the same role in seriously injured in other fog Professor Rhoodie said that relation to the development o f ! pile-ups.— Sapa-Reuter. the Government and the Nationa list Party always claimed that | the African areas of South Africa had never been the Whites’ property and that they were being held in trust for the i Africans. And both the Government and : the party had said that South ' Africa should bring together those who belonged together. Because of this, no White man could complain that White South Africa was giving its ground to Black States. If the ethnic spots he referred j to refused to be joined geo-1 politically to their related African states, South Africa could provide the international |p community with irrefutable evi dence that would dramatically ^ give the lie to their accusations of oppression. 1 0 RAM) DAILY MAIL. Wednesday, December 18, 1968. - ’f f r W ; • 1 A year of frustration for ty on Johannesburg’s northern IT’S BEEN a frustrating, border. Local officials claimed the even an alarming year for decision was against all town- Johannesburg. The city is planning principles and would facing the biggest growth booming city lead to duplication of essential a services. tempo in its history, yet the This area was to have been year has shown that its an integral part of the city’s destiny is increasingly being By CHRIS DAY —— ------Municipal Reporter forward planning programme. controlled from Pretoria. It was part of Johannesburg in system remains Johannesburg’s all hut name, officials claimed. Johannesburg’s administra epitomises the plight of all the Government’s request have The decision has meant that caused a dangerous backlog on biggest problem. tors, trying to control this Transvaal municipalities under the city’s forward planning growth by planning for the the restrictive measures of the essential services and this is Earlier this year, city coun branch, which spent much of future, found themselves under Local Government Ordinance.” snowballing all the time. cillors were shocked to learn the year working on a compu the yoke of no fewer than 92 • Mr. Pieter Roos, chairman that the Government had with terised master plan to predict, “This year we reduced capi drawn further road subsidies provisions of the Local Govern of the Management Committee: control and cater for the needs ■.'.1 <- “ Unless we are allowed to tal expenditure by R1.5m. and leaving the city to find an ment Ordinance requiring applied for the bare minimum of the city until the 1980s, will spend more, there could be a extra R18m to foot the R63m now have to revise the whole Provincial approval for local of R25m. This is hardly enough motorway bill. schemes. breakdown of essential ser situation. vices.” to meet the city’s natural “ But this is not the whole To meet the demands of the growth. road problem,” says Mr. Ober Stormy meetings immediate future, Johannes Help needed “ Our essential services are holzer. “ Suburban roads have burg will have to spend RIOOm These clashes with the Prov • Mr. J. F. Oberholzer, overstrained and we still have to be expanded and main on capital works in the next to meet the heavy demands tained.” ince led to a year of stormy M.P.C. and chairman of the city council meetings lasting three years, yet the Govern from huge projects like the The number of vehicles in ment has demanded that R7m Planning and Technical Com Carlton Centre, the Trust Bank, long into the night. mittee: “Johannesburg’s 90,000 Johanesburg is increasing by Nationalist councillors, with be cut off this year’s “bread- the Standard Bank and the about 15,000 a year. and-butter” budget after the ratepayers can no longer foot a view to the next elections in the backbreaking bill for essen new Teachers’ Training Col "This figure makes it plain council had voluntarily lopped lege. 1972 when they hope to gain off R15m in June. tial services. We desperately that unless we can keep pace control of the city, fought as a need financial assistance.” “Come hell or high water we with essential road develop team for the first time in years. This is the situation as seen This is the fifth successive are going to have to complete ment, we will run into chaos,” They adopted fillibuster tactics by leading Johannesburg City year that the Johannesburg massive sewerage programmes he claimed. with each councillor speaking Councillors: City Council has been asked to by 1971, but I don’t know Town planning under Provin for the maximum 30 minutes • Mr. Alf Widman, M.P.C. cut capital works spending in where we will get the money.” cial control is becoming some allowed. Mr. |. F. OBERHOLZER and leader of the United Party the fight against inflation. Apart from sewage disposal thing of a nightmare for Jo Of the debates, Mr. Widman “we desperately need assistance” in the council: “Johannesburg Mr. Roos says: “These cuts at works, an adequate road hannesburg’s forward planners. says: “ It became obvious that This year, an increasing the Nationalist councillors number of town planning deci were pushing the party line all the way. They put their party’s sions taken by the City Council policies before the interests of have been vetoed by the Ad Johannesburg.” ministrator. In the debates, the National Mr. Oberholzer says: “The ists came out strongly in favour crisis stage has been reached. of the removal of Africans The Provincial Administration from White areas, influx con i has made a habit of overruling trol, the moving of Indians in I so many of our decisions that the city to the Lenasia group 1 we are not only frustrated, but area, no sport on Sundays and . . . “the plight of Transvaal municipalities” | consider the town planning si- the strict application of the I tuation as farcical. Language Ordinance. Probably the most conten ties Committee — will mean a been built at the giant Clare Strained tious argument came after the mont scheme. Sandown-Bryanston decision new deal for 7,000 people in “ Relations have become so when they called for a burgo- one of the most depressed Plans were passed to erect a I strained in this sphere that meester with executive powers areas of the city. R13m “ complete town” of I unless better understanding to be appointed by the Admin Work is to begin on the cheap housing near the Rand I and liaison can be achieved, we istrator to control Johannes project early next year and the Airport. This will be the big II shall have no option but to ask burg. city council is to take every gest housing-flat project under precaution to provide alterna I the Government to take ac- In spite of the hectic politi taken by a local authority in I tion.” cal issues, much was achieved tive housing for people whose Africa. during 1968 in civic affairs. homes are to be demolished to It was also agreed to buy Legislation making Johannes avoid the recent fiasco when 2,400 acres of ground outride burg a healthier, brighter and the Province demolished hous the city’s southern boundaries prettier city was passed. es for a new school in the area. for more economic housing Smoking in cinemas was Great- progress schemes. banned, the skies have become The Non-European Affairs clearer since anti-pollution laws Great progress was made Department has made steady were enforced, the amendment during the year on the coun progress in rehousing people of the building laws has seen cil’s R32m five-year programme from Old Pimville, which is the beginning of the end of to provide 30,000 people with now fast disappearing. They “canyon” type development as cheap housing. are to be moved to new premis seen in Commissioner Street, Nearly 700 dwellings have es in New Pimville and Klip- mass economic housing been built and about 400 are spruit. schemes were planned or com nearly finished. At Bellavista, Eastern Bantu Township, pleted and the city’s first urban 200 of the planned 750 housing which is to make way for new renewal project was passed. units have been completed. roads, is to be cleared, and so The massive R15m Jeppe The full scheme of 71 units far 170 families have agreed to urban renewal scheme — long at Max Goodman Park in Bezui- the dream child of Mr. Max denhout Valley have been com- Neppe, chairman of the Utili- pleted and 300 dwellings have To Page 11 Projects which the council < voted against this year but % which were passed by the Prov ince included: • The expansion of the J Rosebank shopping centre. • The creation of a new industrial centre in a residen tial area in South Hills. • The building of a huge - shopping centre in Claim Ï Street near the proposed Hill- brow tower. Probably the bitterest blow of the year for local adminis trators was the decision by the : Administrator - in - Executive Committee to create the giant Sandown-Bryanston municipal)- BUT JO’BURG DID MUCH
FROM PAGE 10 buses if the agreement did not provide a vastly improved ser move to Soweto. They will be vice. , recompensed for the inconven- IN 1968 Traffic jams were no better ' ience. and no worse than in previous The new produce market in years but the new motorways Bramley, has been planned and Soweto is nearing completion miHion bedding plants were are expected to relieve some of and plans for the Jabulani tenders will be called early the pressure next year. next year. planted in the city’s parks and Civic Centre, which will in along its highways. Mr. Saville Dorfman, the chief traffic officer, recently clude shops, cinemas, a theatre, • In the south, the inter post office, banks and restaur change with the Main Reef Melville Koppies was opened returned from an overseas tour ants are almost finished. Road is in advanced stages of to the public for the first time to study the latest methods of The past year also saw the planning. recently and the pinetum (pine traffic control. His report is establishment of the Urban tree) park at Melrose has been due early next year and traffic g s Bantu Council. The council has • The council is waiting for established. control by closed-circuit televi earned high praise from Mr. the Province to Stipulate the sion is expected to feature he Patrick Lewis, Johannesburg’s connection point with their Plans were also passed to prominently in it. Deputy Mayor and chairman of ring road round the city before build a botanical garden at Van The year also showed that the non-European Affairs Com continuing work on the south Riebeeck Park in Emmarentia Johannesburg is soon to be a mittee. ern-most section of the north- and the council is considering computer-controlled city The The Health Department has south motorway. buying ground in the hills near Johannesburg City Council has also had an extremely busy and Khp River for a second bought a giant computer eventful year. On top of isnmu- When the entire route is Wilds. — _ it will be rented for completed, it should take about R2o0.000 a year — which will JO minutes to travel from north run just about every municipal to south through the city. Two problems department from licensing to valuations. The City Engineer’s Depart Two of the biggest problems ment is still ^suffering from an facing the man in the street — To pay more acute shortage of engineers. congested roads and a poor bus But Johannesburg’s citizens The City Engineer, Mr. Brian service — continued unabated. are going to have to pay more Loffell, recently launched an to live in the city’s brave new j extensive overseas recruiting There was some improve world of 1969. Rates will go up, campaign in a bid to stop the ment in the bus service toward the end of the year, however, parking garage fees will go up, situation from reaching crisis cash bus fares will go up and proportions. after the R250,000-a-year wage sewerage tariffs will go up. agreement between the council For hundreds of Johannes and the city’s busmen. Good news for ratepayers burg s citizens, 1968 will be the could, however, come from . , T1je agreement allowed, for this year’s Parliamentary ses year of the “ Great Expropria the first time, the employment sion, if the Government de tion. Most affected was the of part-timers to operate buses cides to accept the recommen historic suburb of Parktown and this helped to alleviate the dations of the Schumann and which was literally hit on all critical shortage of staff to sides by bulldozers clearing the Borckenhagen Commissions some extent. to widen the revenue-earning ™>y f°r motorways and new capabilities of local authori building developments. The city council, in one of its ties. most contentious decisions of the year, agreed to hire Col The Government has been sitting on the recommenda- Master plan oured busmen to operate White tions for 10 years. A master plan for the trans formation of Parktown into an M R . PIETER ROOS institutional, cultural and bus- "danger of breakdown' lness centre with a “garden city atmosphere was passed by the city council in the closing nising thousands of children stages of the year. against infectious diseases, it began two of the biggest health The plan rezones a 250-acre campaigns in the city’s history complex bounded by Jan Smuts Two mobile anti-T.B. units Avenue, Rock Ridge Road, are travelling through the sub York and Empire Roads into urbs and each house will be what is expected to be one of visited in a bid to X-ray every the city s showpiece areas. servant living in White areas k, ProPosed to restrict The department has also be building heights severely to gun a massive health education avoid creating another Hill- programme which will include brow. lectures on hygienic food hand ling, smoking and lung cancer Included in the area will be the need for immunisation, air a 30-acre park and cultural arts pollution, noise and venereal complex, an 80-acre College of disease. Education complex and a Univ- ersity of Witwatersrand annex. Flyover Private development will in The City Engineer’s Depart clude office blocks, medical ment, which got most of this clinics, hotels and flats. years record RI54m budget to Johannesburg’s cultural spend, has worked hard on the amenities have taken vast 10-year, R63m motorway pro strides during the year A gramme. Rim art gallery is planned for The key “L” section which ?,aVkt5 wn and the curator, Miss stretches south from Smit Nel Erasmus, is on a world street to the West Gate inter study tour to ensure that the change, will be open in Febru gallery will rank with the most ary next year. This will allow a modern in the world A 60-second “flyover” of the busy photographic museum — its western half of the city. collection is ranked third in Another big stretch of the the world. — has been estab network was opened during the lished in Empire Road, Park- year — the Rim link road town, and this will be opened running from Marshall Street next month. to Siemert Road. The City Council’s Manage The section from Smit Street ment Committee this month through Rockridge Road, with agreed to lease a 30-acre site the flyover at Empire Road next to the Melville Koppie should be completed by Julv Nature Reserve for the estab next year. y lishment of a Rim Museums of Progress reports on the net Man and Science complex. work i° r the year show that: It is planned to make the • Tenders are out for the complex comparable with the next leg of the northern route world-famous Smithsonian In- “ •between Rock Ridge Road stitution in Washington. and Killarney. The Parks Department • The final northern stretch fought a winning battle this of the route, from Killarney to year to soften Johannesburg’s the municipal Boundary in concrete image. More than a *
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‘iff " A firi cans s N a major move to improve and post-primary school educa ment Committee, the Non-Euro- townships at present exempt; I educational facilities for tion. pêan Affairs Department said That an additional levy of 20 African children in Soweto The chairman, Mr. Patrick facilities for “higher education” cents a month be made on each Township, the Urban Bantu Lewis, said: “This could be a bi; - - beyond Standard 2 — are tenant; and Council — the link between the breakthrough in our Africa t ie responsibility of the Bantu That lodger families (those inhabitants and Johannesburg education programme.” S ihool Boards and the Bantu sharing houses with the legal ?ity Council — has asked for At present a levy of 18 cent: I dueation Department. The tenants) be subject to levy in a mpositon of increased School is charged as part of the site 'hool . boards collect money similar way. Fund levies at present forming rent for houses in all the f om Barents to provide such The Council would control the part of the site rent in certain townships, except Orlando, Ja s hoolsl levy, which has to be accepted townships. bavu, Old Pimville, Easterr Theri is a shortage of schools by the Minister of Bantu Bantu Township, Mofolo Centra f( r higher education. In Soweto, Administration and Develop • The U.B.C. has asked that and Dube. it iny Ischools “ double up,” ment. tqwnships at present exempt This money, totalling about catering for lower primary Mr. Lewis said it was signifi ffom the levy be brought into R85.000 a year, is paid into pupils |n the mornings and cant that the move had been line. Schools Levy Fund and is used higher Irimary children in the initiated by the Africans. “They At its meeting yesterday, the to repay capital and interest on afternoons are so desirous of education that Management Committee ac housing loans, as well as the The 11B C. made three pro they are voluntarily taxing cepted the recommendations, external maintenance and essen posals: l themselves. This could be a big which would provide an addi- tial services of school buildings. That the levy of 18c be breakthrough in African educa | “ti%al R249.000 a near for lower In a report to the Manage extended! to tenants in the tion.” opera house site
COUTH AFRICAN BREWERIES want to buy back the Braamfontein ^ stand they sold to the Province in 1965 and which was earmarked for Johannesburg’s opera house. This raises the question of whether the ^ Province intends to build an opera house in the city at all. The Province has declined A report to the Management i comment. Committee states that the site has South African Breweries have no access points apart from plans to build offices, shops and Ameshoff Street on the southern flats on the hillside site which side. The office development \ j would increase office space in would introduce 3,100 workers to Braamfontein by 65 per cent. the area and not 1,500 as sug The Management Committee of gested by the brewery, and would the city council was presented attract 1,400 cars at peak hours. with a full report on the brewery The City Engineer's Depart plans this week ment has suggested various The site was originally sold to amendments to the scheme the Province for R2,750,000 in reducing the number of shops, 1965 and has since been occupied offices and flats in the plans. by the Rand Afrikaans Univer- “ There are also very good i sity. reasons to prefer residential REACTION development to office develop In support of their develop ment on this site,” states the report. The site is close to ment scheme the breweries state that they intend to develop only educational institutions and the 30 per cent, of the site which Civic Centre and it would not be would provide Braamfontein with in the best interests of the city 6.3 acres of extra open space to have these two separated from each other by office development, The area, bounded by Jan which would leave it. deserted at Smuts Avenue, Ameshoff Street, night. Melle Street and the Helpmekaar Boys’ High School, lies in the The Management Committee most highly developed part of has deferred its decision. Braamfontein Council officials’ reaction to the scheme is that it would have "disasterous repercussions on 1 traffic congestion.”
; F o ë , NEW MEN IN LINE [New Soweto schools plan . suggested Council to A new scheme to provide extra education facilities in Soweto for African children beyond standard two is to be “ placed before the Johannesburg City Council at its monthly meet- 1 ing tomorrow. The council has consider been warned that the lack of ;■ such facilities could have serious repercussions in the future. , Adoption of the scheme, which increases in house and site rents tjS/U | is subject to the approval of the Minister of Bantu Administration top posts and Development, would mean paid by Soweto residents— plus the imposition of a R1 charge to TITR. A. P. BURGER, Johannesburg’s Clerk of be paid by people lodging with the Council, has been recommended for the families in Soweto. An ad hoc committee which j city’s top municipal post— that of Town Clerk. drew up the scheme for provid- 6 Mr. Burger, whose appoint In 1954 he became Town Clerk ing more facilities submitted its \ recommendations to the 10 j ment is to be officially con of Parow in the Cape, a posi Bantu Advisory Boards for com sidered by the city council tion he held for 10 years. ment, and of the seven boards tomorrow, succeeds Mr. D. Ross He then served for more than which replied, all were in favour. Blaine, who has retired. a year as assistant registrar, The plan is to impose an addi- After serving with the public South African Medical a n d 1 tional levy of 20c for each site/ service from 1934 until 1943, Mr. Dental Council, before becoming house. This levy alone would Burger—who is 51— was on mili Clerk of the Council in Johannes provide for the construction of tary service from 1942 until 1946. burg in October, 1965. j 10 10-classroom schools a year. From 1946 until 1947 he served At its monthly meeting tomor- j At the moment an 18c educa his articles with a firm of attor row the city council will be asked ! tional levy is paid by Africans in neys and was admitted as an to approve the appointments of: i ! Soweto except those living in advocate in October, 1947. • Mr. V. Bolitho, Chief Sew Orlando, Jabavu, Old Pimville, In 1948 he became legal assis Mofolo Central Dube and Eastern tant in the Town Clerk’s Depart erage Engineer, to the post of i Assistant City Engineer in the Bantu Township for the provision ment, Springs, and in 1953 of lower primary schools. The Deputy Town Clerk of the same place of Mr. A. E. Tait, who has retired. suggestion is that the people town. here pay the 18c levy too — plus • Mr. T. R. Shaw, senior hor the proposed new 20c additional ticulturist, Johannesburg Non- levy. European Affairs Department, to the post of Deputy General Mana ger, Parks and Recreation Depart ment. M Ê Ë m Ê Ê Ê ;
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■ LEWIS IS THE NEW MAYOR Johannesburg’s Mayor-elect for, 1969 is Mr. Patrick Lewis. The j Deputy Mayor-elect is Mr. Hugh Ismay. They were chosen at a \ United Party caucus meeting! this morning. During a brief tea-break in-1' terview Mr. Lewis said he was not planning any specific theme his mayoral year. “ I feel it is a tremendous honour to be made Mayor of a city like Johan nesburg,” he said. Mr. Lewis entered the council j in May, 1957. He had held the! portfolio of Non-EuropeanI Affairs since 1958 and does not; regard himself as a politician. | ‘‘ I am a mediator— a mediator j between the African and th e; Government,” he said. He became M.P.C. for Park- j town in 1962 and served on the ! council for one term. Because of his position on the Management Committee—he has been a member since 1961—he will not act as chairman of the council. A councillor is to be elected chairman today. city s Mr. Lewis is a chartered I on-Kuropean A)jairs Com accountant by profession— he mittee will be Johannes retired from practice in 1963— burg's new Mayor and and a director of companies. He Deputy-Mayor elect for 1969. is married and has three sons. They are Mr. Patrick Lewis, The Deputy Mayor-elect, Mr. Mayor (centre), and Mr. Hugh Ismay, has been a member Hugh Ismay, Deputy-Mayor of the council since 1957. His (left). Extending congratu particular interest has been to try to improve the lot of the lations to Mr. Lewis is the city’s pensioners. Mr. Ismay retiring Mayor, Mr, Ivan has served on the Non-European Schlapobersky, tvho com Affairs Committee with Mr. mented, “My mayoral year Lewis since 1957. was the greatest experience He is married and has one son that 1 have had. I hope you and one daughter. enjoy it as much as I did,” Mnr. P. R. B. Lewis (middel) is gister op ’n koukusvergadering van die VP-groep in die Johan- nesburgse stadsraad as kandi- daat vir die burgemeesterskap aangewys. Hy sal later op ’n raadsvergadering amptelik os burgemeester gekies word en sy termyn in Maart begin. Links op die foto is mnr. 1. Schlapo- bersky, uittredende burge- meester, en regs die aangewese onderburgemeester, mnr. H. B. Ismay. Anders as sy voorgan- gers het mnr. Lewis geen tema vir sy ampstermyn nie. Na ver- neeni word het hy die afgelope twee jaar les gekry in Afri kaans.
MNR. PATRICK LEWIS (links), is vanoggend deur die Verenigde Party-koukus in Johannesburg se stads- raad aangewys as die Goud- stad se burgemeester vir 1969/70. Johannesburg se nuwe eerste burger het in ’n onderhoud aan Die Vaderland gesê dat hy nie ’n tema vir sy bur- germeestersjaar het nie, maar dat hy persoonlik voel dat die burgemeester die publiek in die algemeen dien en nie om ’n spesifieke doel nie. Mnr. Lewis is tans voorsitter van die komitee vir nie- blanke sake en lid van die bestuurskomitee. Die koukus het mnr. H. B. Ismay (regs) as onder-bur- gemeester aangewys.
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Mr. Patrick Lewis, left, Johannesburg's Mayor-elect and Mr. Hugh Ismay, Deputy- Mayor elect, photographed shortly after they were nominated as the city's two lead ing citizens yesterday. LEWIS TO SUCCEED SCHLAPOBERSKY MUNICIPAL REPORTER
MR. PATRICK LEWIS, chairman of Johannesburg City Council’s Non-European Affairs Committee, was yesterday nominated Mayor-elect of the city. He will succeed Mr. Israel Schlapobersky. our for me and I’m looking has earned the respect of both A member of Mr. Lewis’s forward to a stimulating year.” parties in the city council. committee, Mr. Hugh Ismay, Mr. Lewis is to apply to the Although Non-White affairs was appointed Deputy Mayor- Administrator of the Transvaal policymaker for the United elect. Party-controlled council, he is for leave of absence from the Mr. Lewis, who has been a known among Nationalists as city councillor since 1957 and Management Committee during the “Minister’s blue-eyed boy.” became Chairman of the Non- his term of office. This would Some say he runs the best European Affairs Committee a allow him to retain chairman “Bantustan” in South Africa — year later, it regarded as one of ship of the Non-European Af Soweto. the city’s most efficient admin fairs Committee, although he “I have always tried to do istrators. will not attend any of the what is best for the African He has decided to break with committee meetings. people and have tried not to tradition and not have a mayor If the Administrator grants put politics before their wel al theme because “I believe the him leave of absence, another fare,” he said. Mayor should serve the public city councillor will be appoint Mr. Lewis, an honorary life ■ generally and not a particular ed chairman of the city council, member of the South African cause.” as a member of the Manage Institute of Race Relations, ‘This is not a criticism of ment Committee cannot hold sees his role as a mediator other mayors, but my personal this position. between the city council, the view,” he said yesterday. Mr. Lewis, who does not African people and the Govern “This is indeed a great hon regard himself as a politician, ment. ' The Mayor’s allowance Johannesburg City Council will be asked at its next meeting to vote on the allowances for the new Mayor and Deputy-Mayor. The Management Committee has approved R14.000 for general : purposes and R4,800 as a per- ! sonal allowance in addition to Shis normal councillor’s allow ance for the Mayor, Mr. Patrick [ Lewis. For the Deputy-Mayor (Mr. ! Hugh Ismay) the committee | approved R150 a month as a personal allowance in addition I] to his normal allowance. These amounts are the same as those allowed for last year’s Mayor and Deputy-Mayor.
LA CHIROPODIS *m 1.111. Visit our foot care specialists. In attend ance: Sister N. E. Hayward, S.R.N., M.S.S.Ch., from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mrs. B. Hammond, M.S.S.Ch.. from 1 p.m. to ION 4 p.m. For appointment ’phone 41-3111. FOURTH FLOOR s-i^si... W rMNk »RICE 5c STUTTAFORDS New mayor! will not preside at l-death Council IX/TR. PATRICK LEWIS •LTA (with his wife Doris, above), will be Mayor of Johannesburg from the first tnilies week in March, when he will formally succeed the present Mayor, Mr. I. Schla- r pobersky, but he will n0* preside at meetings of the Mayor s fund '■ sSlired City Council. As a member of the Man HE retiring Mayor of settled for the night and agement Committee, on T Johannesburg, Mr. 1. there was no point in my which he wishes to remain, going to the hospital then. Times Correspondent he is barred from being Schlapobersky, has launched an emergency appeal fund “ Our Non - European -M r. I. W . Robinson, acting mana- chairman of the council. Affairs Department is ad There is a precedent for this for the victims of the rail ropean Affairs Department of the situation as two previous disaster. ministering aid out of a Mayors, Mr. Pieter Root and small emergency fund Council, said yesterday that nobody He has appealed for as which it has, but I doubt Mr. J. F. Oberholzer, M.P.C., much cash as possible to adwinner in Monday’s train disaster both chose to remain mem whether this will be effec be donated within the next tive for more than a day or endorsed out of Johannesburg. bers of the Management couple of days to help Committee or two. those with immediate needs. “ So we decided to launch a coun-! funds for the rail disaster vic As Mayor Mr. Lewi* can tims, and R2.265 was collected " Once the position be an emergency appeal fund. died the j not be chairman of any of by 5 p.m. the council’s committees, so comes clearer an appeal I appeal to Johannesburg’s he impli-i “ There is air immediate need his place as chairman of the may also be made for public and to the public of ister and; non-European Affairs Com for cash donations to aid vic goods in kind,” he said this the Witwatersrand to come le Mayor tims of Monday’s disaster and mittee — a position he has morning. forward with generosity Schlapo- their families. Later we are held since 1958 when he and speed to my office at going to need food, blankets and “ 1 only heard about the is to the succeeded Mr. Hymie Miller the City Hall with aid for clothing.” Mr. Schlapobersky — will be taken over by Mr. disaster late last night,” he said. “ I immediatetly my fund.” said yesterday. 8. Moss. as aware Meetings of the City telephoned Baragwanath Cheques should be made Mr. Patrick Lewis, the Mayor- Council will be presided Hospital but was told there payable to the “ Mayor’s j volved in elect of Johannesburg, gave R150 over by Mr. Aleck Jaffe, was nothing I could do— Train Disaster Fund,” The | r clothes, immediately after the appeal was who was Mayor in 1965-66. the victims had all been City Hall, Johannesburg. hile the | launched. This was followed by two cheques for R1,000 each, one The new Deputy Mayor of ipacitated Johannesburg will be Mr. H. from the O.K. Bazaars, and one i affected from a firm of stockbrokers, Max B. Ismay. ■om their Pollack and Freemantle. bility to Sapa reports that the Railways >uld also announced that train services to the West Rand were running to tf Johan- schedule and those to Soweto were still running up to 30 minutes late. )5o -co tey or m to the IM----- ■ n Affairs x 5382, Assistant ty Police, ton that dead and oositively 'S would t of the ed till it that a ll; nformed. | Uolonel Smith saiu mat a full departmental inquiry into the accident was under way. Up to yesterday afternoon the official death toll was 13 Africans. An immediate public response yesterday followed the Mayor of Johannesburg’s appeal for relief I g T f i g W / z / ip & ï ^ n ó \ a - í ^ * 0 : The Mayor’s allowance Johannesburg City Council will be asked at its next meeting to vote on the allowances for the j new Mayor and Deputy-Mayor. The Management Committee has approved R14,000 for general purposes and R4,800 as a per sonal allowance in addition to his normal councillor’s allow ance for the Mayor, Mr. Patrick Lewis. For the Deputy-Mayor (Mr. Hugh Ismay) the committee approved R150 a month as a personal allowance in addition to his normal allowance. These amounts are the same as those allowed for last year’s Mayor and Deputy-Mayor.
h i CHIROPODIS Visit our foot care specialists. In attend ance: Sister N. E. Hayward, S.R.N., M.S.S.Ch., from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mrs. B. Hammond, M.S.S.Ch., from 1 p.m. to ION 4 p.m. For appointment ’phone 41-3111. FOURTH FLOOR RICE 5c STUTTAFORDS New mayor will not | preside at Rail-death i Council PATRICK LEWIS MR,(with his wife Doris, above), will be Mayor of Johannesburg from the first families week in March, when he will formally succeed the present Mayor, Mr. I. Schla- pobersky, but he will net preside at meetings of the City Council. As a member of the Man reassured agement Committee, on which he wishes to remain, Cape Times Correspondent he is barred from being chairman of the council. JOHANNESBURG.— Mr. I. W . Robinson, acting mana There is a precedent for this ger of the Non-European Affairs Department of the situation as two previous Mayors, Mr. Pieter Roos and Johannesburg City Council, said yesterday that nobody Mr. J. F. Oberholzer, M.P.C., who had lost a breadwinner in Monday’s train disaster both chose to remain mem bers of the Management would be penalized or endorsed out of Johannesburg. Committee Mr Robinson and a coun funds for the rail disaster vic As Mayor Mr. Lewis can tims, and R2,265 was collected cillor, Mr. S. Moss, called the not be chairman of any of by 5 p.m. the council’s committees, so conference to discuss the impli “There is an immediate, need his place as chairman of the cations of the rail disaster and for cash donations to aid vic non-European Affairs Com tims of Monday’s disaster and mittee — a position he has yesterday’s appeal by the Mayor | of Johannesburg, Mr. I. Schlapo- their families. Later we are held since 1958 when he going to need food, blankets and succeeded Mr. Hymie Miller bersky, for contributions to the clothing.” Mr. Schlapobersky _ will be taken over by Mr. disaster fund. said yesterday. S. Moss. The City Council was aware Meetings of the City Mr. Patrick Lewis, the Mayor- elect of Johannesburg, gave R150 Council will be presided that people would be involved in over by Mr. Aleck Jafie, expenses for funerals, for clothes, immediately after the appeal was who was Mayor in 1965-66. launched. This wras followed by for food and rent while the two cheques for R1,000 each, one The new Deputy Mayor of bread -wdnner was incapacitated Johannesburg will be Mr. H. from the O.K. Bazaars, and one or dead. Those directly affected from a firm of stockbrokers, Max B. Ismay. would not be evicted from their Pollack and Freemantle. — homes because of inability to Sapa reports that the Railways announced that train services to pay rent and they would also the West Rand were running to not be endorsed out of Johan schedule and those to Soweto nesburg. were still running up to 30 NEXT-OF-KIN minutes late. Contributions in money or in kind should he sent to the sS Treasurer, Non-European Affairs ' ■ ; -Vi. • j Department, PO Box 5382, Johannesburg. Col. J. W. Smith, Assistant , Commissioner of Railway Police, I said yesterday afternoon that while a number of the dead and injured had been positively j identified, the Railways would not release a full list of the names of those concerned till it i had been established that all next-of-kin had been informed. ' Colonel Smith said that a full departmental inquiry into the accident was under way. Up to yesterday afternoon the official death toll was 13 Africans. An immediate public response : yesterday followed the Mayor of Johannesburg’s appeal for relief S u i N D P i V I INI Q é Q Miracle mid-ocean rescue of 69 people § taboa^iecaWe^ PAT LEWIS—JO'BURG’S NEXT MAYOR-LIVING ON BORROWED TIME By JACK SACKSE kJR. PATRICK ROBERT BRIAN LEWIS, who takes over from Mr. I. Schlapobersky next month as Mayor of Johannesburg, believes that for two decades he has been living “ on borrowed tim e.” Just over 21 years ago he came down in an overloaded flying boat in m id-Atlantic in the middle of a raging gale. The craft teetered on the most too weak to care for their crest of waves over 30 feet babies . . .” The craft was a big old high and then pitched down Boeing flying boat, the Ber again. Every man and woman muda Sky Queen. She landed among the 62 passengers and in the boiling ocean on the crew of seven thought their morning of Tuesday, October breath as the flying boat came m at night Mr. Lewis and end had come. 14, 1947, loaded with the big in sight. Johannesburg's next Mr. Glen left by train for New gest human cargo to attempt to As it ditched in the heav Mayor and Mayoress, York. They reached New York “Every minute it seemed fly the Atlantic up to then. certain we were going to plunge ing, broiling sea, it dis Mr. and Mrs. Patrick at midnight, slept for a few to the bottom,” Mr. Lewis re Mr Lewis and Mr. Glen were appeared from sight and in Lewis — a photograph hours, then caught an early called. on their way to a business con that moment all thought it morning train which took them vention in Atlantic City, U.S.A. had gone under. Then it sud taken this week at to Atlantic City via Philadel With him on this never-to-be- denly came into view “ like a their home in Saxon- phia. forgotten nightmare flight was Plane accommodation was chronically short at the time huge whale” and wallowed wold. a fellow South African busi towards the rolling Bibb. | Mr. A. Ross Glen (left), a well-known Pretoria busi- ness man, Mr. A. Ross Glen, of and the two South Africans Director | ness man, and Mr. Patrick Lewis, the two South A fri- Pretoria. thought they were lucky to The sea was so violent that it -iiiiiiiiiiiiimimmiiiimuHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimm, have been included in the was impossible to start rescue “ Now here is a happy per | cans aboard the ill-fated Bermuda Sky Queen when it The flying boat was battered chartered flight. operations and in the next seven | had to be ditched in mid-Atlantic. So violent was the and badly damaged and leaking among the 24 men and a woman sonal coincidence,” said Mr. “ We took these seats because hours, while the Bibb stood by who had to spend the entire Lewis. “When we got to Boston, after a collision .with a rescue unable to do anything about it, I gale that rubber rafts flew up like kites and a heavy vessel. That all aboard eventu there were no others available night in the pitching flying a business associate, Mr. George | motor lifeboat was sunk by the waves. This picture was ally were saved was little short anywhere,” Mr. Lewis recalled. the flying boat crashed into the boat. By morning the craft had Thorpen, was there to meet us. taken shortly after the rescue. of a miracle. “It turned out that the owners hull of the cutter and stove in drifted about 100 miles from I have just had word that he is were running a very small out its own nose. where she had come down, but coming over to Johannesburg to The two South Africans fit which normally worked be the cutter had kept with it. were among the last to be be present on March 4 at my tween Baltimore and, Bermuda. Fortunately the sea had induction as Mayor.” rescued, after climbing They had heard about the pile- Leaking through the nose of the fly calmed somewhat, and the re Red-headed Mr. Lewis — Pat[ up of passengers and decided to maining passengers were safely ing boat, leaping on to a raft, At 3.15 p.m., it became evi to his close friends — is the! cash in on it. There was not taken off. son of Mr. Stakesby Lewis, who making a hazardous change even food on board.” dent that rescue operations into a rubber boat and then somehow had to be attempted, was an apostle of temperance. being hauled aboard a cutter. When the Sky Queen took off “ I myself am not a teetotaller, from Foynes, Eire, at 3.40 on as the plane had begun to leak Miracle For more than 24 agonising and many passengers were on although I am a non-smoker,” f the Monday afternoon of Octo the point of hysteria. says Mr. Lewis. hours, they were confined to ber 13, 1947, she was 3,600 lb. Mr. Lewis told me: “The On board the flying boat were the doomed flying boat as it overloaded and carried two pas feeling of relief once we were Now 58, married and with pitched and tossed in the ocean. sengers too many. nine sailors homeward bound aboard the cutter is something three grown-up sons, Mr. Lewis “We really thought we had after delivering a tanker to an I can hardly describe. Right up headed an accountancy firm had it,” Mr. Lewis confessed. English buyer. Three of them to then it hardly seemed likely before his retirement, and he calmly got into a rubber craft, A contemporary account of Out of fuel that we would survive. It was remains a director of a number came towards the cutter on a just a miracle.” of companies. the incident in Time magazine line and were safely picked up. As the damaged Sky Queen He became a city councillor says: “ In those long hours the She was to have taken 17 Then a bigger, 15-man raft was reckoned to be a danger to cabin of the wildly pitching hours to reach Gander, New was manoeuvred to the flying in 1957 and took over the navigation, the cutter riddled chairmanship of the Non- plane became a stinking foundland, but ran into such boat and took off four loads of it with gunfire, stood by while chamber of horrors. Many of violent headwinds that 18i passengers before rescue work she burned and sank and then European Affairs Committee the passengers expected to die, hours later there was not had to be suspended until the turned for home. 11 months later, succeeding waited for the plane to open up enough fuel left to take the morning. “We came down on the Tues Mr. Hymie Miller who was with the smash of every dredg craft either to Newfoundland or Even so It was wild work. day morning, were rescued on elected to Parliament. ing wave. back to Ireland. On the fourth trip the raft the Wednesday and the Coast Mr. Lewis has made a name was swamped, the motor Guard cutter got us into Boston for himself as an administrator The 33-year-old ex-U.S. Navy launch (to which the passen pilot, Charles Martin, decided to on the Sunday,” said Mr. who has done outstanding work Mothers head back to the Coast Guard gers were being transferred) Lewis. for the non-Whites. was hit by a wave and many cutter Bibb, which was on duty • “ She came Into harbour “ My great interest,” he says, of the passengers were “Passengers and crew grew some 800 miles north east of with a broom tied to her mast “has always been race-relations. washed out Into the water. in token of a clean sweep res I am more interested in getting violently.seasick, vomited help Newfoundland. He radioed Seamen leaped into the lessly on themselves and each ahead that he expected to land cue. She was given a tremen results than gaining any poli water to save some, others were dous reception. Small craft tical advantage. Rather than other. Exhausted children were next to the vessel at around 8 rescued by being pulled in by sick, fell asleep in the foul, a.m. swarmed around us, flreboats attack a Minister, I prefer to hand from life nets over the threw spray, whistles blew. discuss matters quietly over a chilly air, woke up and were . At that time the men of the cutter’s side. sick again. Mothers were al Thousands lined the water cup of tea and it is a policy that Bibb were all up, holding their Mr. Lewis and Mr. Glen were front.” to my mind has been justified.” — THE STAR JOHANNESBURG WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 19 1969
JOHAJSISESBJJRG’S new Mayor and Deputy-Mayor will be inducted ** on March 4. As they prepare to serve their city in these high offices, a Women’s Page Reporter talks to the new Mayoress and the new Deputy-Mayoress, and also to the retiring Mayoress. i •. . THE OFFICE, ' NOT THE PERSONALITY
e c a u s e of the pres Mrs. Lewis recalled. “ Then I of her Saxonwold home this B tige attached to being realized it was not me, year. Mayoress, there is a danger personally, who was being “ Last year, my youngest honoured, but the fact that I son, Duncan, who is a of regarding oneself as a was the Deputy-Mayoress.” student at the University of more important person in the Witwatersrand, had a one’s own right than is Flowers friend to stay with him. You often justified. see, it’s rather lonely in a big Mrs. Patrick Lewis, Johan- During the past year, as house and we are out so riesburg’s Mayoress-elect, “ Madam D e p u t y,” Mrs. much for meals that 1 hope said she was made aware Lewis said she had got over we can continue this arrange that it was the office and not her nervousness and appre ment.” the personality which was hension at meeting a number The Lewis’s other two sons being honoured when, early of people, at the same time are married. MRS. PATRICK LEWIS, in her term as Deputy-Mayo realizing that holding may- One of the household .1 oh an neshurg's new First ress, she had attended a oral office entailed great chores that Mrs. Lewis will have to relinquish, with Lady, is appropriately morning tea party arranged responsibilities. by the Goodwill Club of the regret, is arranging the photographed at her desk, “ And with the growth of Johannesburg branch of the the city every year, this flowers. which will be the nerve N.C.W. becomes even more so,” she " 1 am hoping that a young centre for her many civic cousin of mine who is a “ When everyone rose to commented. domestic science student will commitments during her their feet as I entered the She does not envisage any term of office. room I got quite a shock,” vital changes in the running come in and do them. While I enjoy working with flowers, .this year I simply won’t have time to spend a whole Saturday morning or after noon arranging them.” No time for flower Welfare Mrs. Lewis will not be carrying over very much of arranging, but her wardrobe from last year. “ I find that fashions change so quickly that the outfit I wore to last year’s induction ceremony, for instance, has yoga will continue already had to be shortened — and I feel quite skittish in it.” For many years Mrs. Lewis has been a tireless voluntary worker for the Toe H organization, but in the next 12 months her mayoral duties will not allow her time to concentrate on any one aspect of welfare work. “ One thing I’m deter mined not to abandon, how ever, is the yoga exercises I have been doing for the last 12 years. “ Without them I would be much more creaky.” THE STAR JOHANNESBURG WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 19 1969
48 hours TIME FOR in her day—and THO UGHT HE pleasant prospect T of having enough time to weigh up what every she would like to do, instead of days crammed with official engagements, awaits Mrs. Israel Schlapo- bersky, the retiring minute Mayoress. “ I have been trying to analyse my feelings, and I think I am looking forward enj oyed to being an ordinary person again. “ My daughters are nag HE Deputy-Mayoress-to-be, Mrs. Hugh ging me to go back to T Ismay, could not be better suited to university to do an honours her new position. Her vivacious person degree, but I don’t know ality and her enthusiasm indicate an out whether I’d still be able to going friendliness and the ability to make swot,” said Mrs. Schlapo- the best of any situation. bersky. Mrs. Ismay does not think “ And there’s golf and her civic commitments will bridge. And my second interfere with the running of daughter’s wedding to ar her home, as she has always range. (She gets married on led an éxtremely active life. Sunday.) “I believe that the only “ My term as Mayoress was way to enjoy the present is just fabulous, but you have to keep busy 48 hours a day MRS. HUGH very little time for private . . . and enjoying today is the ISM AY, the life. I know now how the answer to living.” Queen must feel about all new Deputy- She paused, and added in her engagements which for her quick, bright voice: ‘‘I Mayoress, her go on for a lifetime — never look back. You cannot and Sasha. not just for a year. look backwards into the future.” " The Royal family also Mrs. Ismay has good comes in for lots of personal reason to believe in this criticism. That didn’t happen philosophy, for she met the to us. Johannesburg people tragedy of sudden widow were simply wonderful. hood and rebuilt a rewarding “ People talk about the life by making the most of city being a concrete jungle, the present. nut and bolt factory here. Mrs. Ismay prefers to Middle East and Far East but it certainly responds whenever there is an That is when I met my create her own design for provide an exotic background T ragedy present husband.” any item she makes, includ for the English antiques — appeal.” They were married in ing knitted garments, cera many of them family heir Of her husband’s mayoral Bom in England, educated 1963, but as the firm was mic pottery, mosaics, lamp looms. theme, “ Know Your City,” in France, Switzerland and expanding rapidly and could shades and lace. Interior Mrs. Sehlapobersky said: Britain, she married her first When the house was MRS. ISRAEL SCHLAPOBERSKY, the retiring not spare her immediately, decorating and sketching are designed, Mrs. Ismay found “ We were bom in Johannes husband in England before Mayoress, is looking forward to being “an she continued as sales mana other absorbing interests. that a flourishing oak tree burg and have lived all our the war. They travelled ordinary person” again. ger for another three years She has become a South would have to be cut down lives here, but our mayoral widely together. Then, dur before resigning. African citizen. “I am terri unless some change was term has really enabled us to ing a short visit to South “I’d led a man’s life until bly happy in South Africa. made. get to know the city.” Africa, he was killed in an fairly recently,” she said. accident. Bivonia — with its village “ I insisted that the posi Of all the engagements she “Now I’m really enjoying atmosphere and friendly “I left South Africa, but tion of the building be had undertaken during the being a complete woman.” people — is a wonderful found that the whole world altered in order to save it. It year, she had most enjoyed Evidence of her essential place to live,” she declared is now right at the front those which were associated was full of memories, so I femininity and boundless warmly. decided to come back to door, so we have called our with young people. “ It’s energy lies in her many home ‘The Oak Tree.’ ” interesting to hear the ideas Johannesburg and fight hobbies. This small incident typi of the young.” against unhappiness where “I find any work that I do Sensitivity the worst had happened. fies Mrs. Ismay’s approach to She feels that a Mayoress with my hands very relaxing The Ismays’ property has life — her sensitivity and should support her husband “I’d had commercial train — they seem to act as an ing in America before the an easy, spacious country awareness of beauty — and without trying to develop her outlet,” she said, fingering a atmosphere, but at the same the charm and determination own pet interests. “ There is Second World War, and I lace tablecloth which took became sales manager in a time their home has eleg which enable her to achieve only one Mayor, and it’s his her five months to make. ance. Carpets bought in the what she feels is important. wife’s job to help him.”
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