“DEFEND YOUB AGAINST THREAT’ IWO TIME FOR PANIC, SAYS DR. DADOO

JOHANNESBURG.—The proclamation of group areas in Johannesburg’s western town­ ships is no time for panic. Indians must stand united and resolute to defend their homes, Vol. 2, No. 43. Registered at G.P.O. ai a Newspapei their properties and their livelihoods. They must not go to Lenasia or any other group areas set aside for Indians. NORTHERN EDITION THlJKiiDAY, AUGUST 23, 1956 PRICET 3d. This is the call issued to the Indian people by Dr. Y. M. Dadoo following the proclamation of the first large group areas in the country in areas where Indians—and Coloureds and Africans—face in ju r e d ruin within one or two years. 2 KILLED. 10 ; Dr. Dadoo's call appeared in this city on the eve of the all-in conference on group areas convened by the Transvaal Indian Con­ gress for this week-end, August 25 and 26. IN BEERHALL CLASHi Dr. Dadoo's statement says: accomplished fact. What more does JOHANNESBURG.—Once again what started as a slight incid^t In time of crisis there are in­ it want! Once we have moved our at the Western Native Township Beerhall last week turned intota variably timid, faint-hearted people homes from existing localities it clash between Africans and police in which two Africans were shot who panic and, like a drowning will then be mere child’s play for dead, two European and three Non-European police injured and live man, clutch at any straw. the Strijdom Government to close Africans injured by bullets. down our shops, businesses and all We, too, have such people in our legitimate avenues of making a The Western Native Township A later press version contra­ midst. The proclamation of group decent and honourable living. Advisory Board met urgently the dicted this. It said the trouble areas in the Weste’-n suburbs has evening after the trouble to demand started when a police constable took sent them running helter-skelter in Those who hope to “negotiate a judicial commission of inquiry his brother-in-law near the beerhall all directions shouting: “Accept with the Government for the preser­ into the police conduct at the beer­ and the Africans tried to rob him residential segregation”; “Accept vation of trading rights” are living hall. The Board said in a public of a suitcase he was carrying. He Lenasia,” and in the words of a in a fool's paradise. The aim of the statement that the African people then fired six shots, killing one Afri­ certain rich Indian landlord: protest strongly against the use of can. “We have no alternative but to Dr. Dadoo. firearms at random not warranted But an eye-witness who was him­ accept Lenasia as a residential in the last two disturbances which self injured in the beerhall denies township and to trust that the We must seek the co-operation of took place at this beerhall. The this too. He says a European accom­ all men of goodwill and of all Government will deal fairly and Map And democratic organisations in forming trouble in both cases was between panied by a policeman went into honestly with us in regard to the the police and the African people the heerhall to sell soft goods. An preservation of trading rights.” local and regional vigilance com­ which “has c'aused us great con­ argument started over prices. One mittees for the purpose of defend­ cern.” patron, probably drunk, grabbed With the proclamation of group Further ing the legitimate rights and oppor­ Because of the loss of life and one of the articles in the suitcase. areas there is no doubt that our tunities of all sections of the people injuries to people, “we demand a On> of the men took out a revolver people face a very critical siuation. irrespective of race, colour or creed. judicial commission of enqiiiiy' into and started shooting, and a general WHAT ARE WE TO DO? Details On the conduct of the police and the coibrtMtion and fight ensued. cause of the deterioration in race The police riot squad arrived What arc we to do? Accept the SUPPORT relations which has become acute from Newlands. Yhe police asked cowardly advice of those who say We must enlist the support of the and is becoming worse day by day.” no questions but started shooting. “accept residential segregation first Page 4 Chambers of Commerce and Indus­ First reports said the trouble was Some passers-by, not involved in and negotiate with the Government try and trade union organisations in started by Africans attacking a the fracas inside the beerhall, were for the preservation of trading a mighty campaign to prevent the passing policeman off duty as he hit by stray bullets. One in hospital rights and means of livelihood?” country's economic progress and passed the beerhall. The constable has a shoulder wound. Angry Voluntarily and willingly go to Group Areas Act is clear for all to welfare being disrupted by the was attacked by 18 Africans, said drinkers pushed and fought their Lenasia now? see. The report of the inter-depart- application of the Group Areas Act a police statement. He drew his re­ way out of the beerhall. mental committees appointed by and the apartheid policy of the volver and fired six shots. He was The day after the trouble police This would be tantamount to pre- the Nationalist Governrnent in Government. injured by his attackers. patrolled the area strongly. senfing the Government with an 1948, which forms the basis of the Group Areas Act, states in clear and We must take our full and right­ unambiguous language: ful place in the mounting campaign against every facet of apartheid As Lionet Morrison Goes To Joil, His Mother Protests.. ‘The fundamental theme of the throughout the country. WhaC evidence throughout the years has happens in a year or two years’ been and still is: repatriation or, time will be determined by how failing which, compulsory segrega­ effectiyely and courageously we dis­ "MY SON IS NOT A THIEE OR tion . . .’ charge now the tasks enumerated AN ILLUSION above. MURDERER. WHAT HE WROTE W. Thus to hope for negotiation is an illusion. Harbouring such nebu­ ft lous notions can only lead to vacil- Calholics Against THE TRUTH laton anid confusion among the people. It can only have the disas­ The Bomb JOHANNESBURG. prisonment for painting Freedom will be suffering to preserve hi trous effect of weakening and dis­ LONDON. SPHERE were moving scenes out- Charter slogans on buildings in dignities,” he said. rupting the so-far successful, united ^ side Marshall Square as mem­ Cape Town. One of the slogans A group of members of the stand of the community against the Two Catholic journalists. Dorothy bers of the Congress Movement and which read “Let us black folks in,” gress Movement, waiting to see Group Areas Act. Day. the editor of the New York his family watched Lionel Morri­ was painted on the House of Parlia­ off, congregated at the Congress City “Catholic Worker.” and Am­ son being taken into custody by the ment and stressed the chapter of office and sang freedom songs Anv weakening of our stand or mon Hennacy, a writer for the same police following the failure of his the Freedom Charter which says during the quarter of an hour ne­ anv sign of panic on our part will paper, are planning to_ protest appeal against his conviction for “The People Shall Govern.” gotiations went on between his law­ serve as a source of encouragement atrainst the new “Mock Air Raids” slogan painting. Morrison’s mother The threat of imprisonment has yer and the police commandant. to the Government to proclaim this year, just as they did on a pre­ uttered courageous words at a fare­ been hanging over their heads for He was finally taken to Marshall further group areas and press on vious occasion. Instead of going well party arranged for him at his the past twelve months. Last week Square after the police had con­ with its policy of apartheid. into the underground shelter when home. She said “My son is not a the Appeal Court refused the two sulted the Special Branch at Grays the shens start blowing they will men leave to appeal. The critical situation calls for remain outside. Both were arrested thief or a murderer. What he wrote Building. vigorous and energetic measures. last year for a similar demonstration or said is the truth.” In his message Morrison called and they are again deliberately Morrison’s sentence was a symbol upon the young people of all races We must not go to Lenasia or courting arrest to underline their not to be discouraged but rather in­ IN CAPE TOWN anv other group areas set aside for of the full participation of the Col­ spired by his prison sentence and opposition to these periodic re­ oured people in the struggle for our neonle. We must forge a strong hearsals for war. liberation, said speakers at the fare­ to realise that freedom was within At the time of going to press, bond of solidarity between land­ their reach. lords and tenants in the common Their protest is part of a growing well gathering. Abdurahman Hurzuk had not yet demand by organised United States Lionel Morrison, together with “My sentence of four months is received notice from the clerk of stniggle for existence, by calling unon Indian landlords to cease Catholics for the banning of the Abdurahman Hurzuk, was convicted a mere drop in the ocean of .sacri­ the court to surrender himself to atom and hydrogen bombs. A leaf­ and sentenced to four months im­ fice of many who have suffered and the prison authorities. charging goodwill money and ex­ orbitant rents. let circulated by the demonstrators reprints part of a leading article in another Catholic periodical, “The Pilot.” The article, under the head­ Cape ANC Conference ing “Ban the Bomb,” stated that ARE AFRICAN MEN HIDING DEHIND “we have reached the point bevond PORT ELIZABETH. which we travel at the peril of The postponed conference of the human existence . . . we must find THE WOMEFS SKIRTS ? ANC (Cape Province) will be held some effective and immediate mea­ — See Page 3 at Blinkwater, seven miles from sures which will make the H-Bomb Fort Beaufort, on August anq morally obsolete before it ever be* Sr-vqfimhfr | Miti ** tomec. rdi urnial of wni ” LEE-WARDEN AND APARTHEID! Editorial Mr. Lee-Warden’s two letters to the Cape Argus in reply to his critics still fail to explain how N E W A C E A SEVERE SENTENCE he came to include in his letter to the London Times the sentence J^AST week the application of Lionel Morrison and Abdurah­ which has touched off the whole man Hurznk for leave to appeal against their conviction and controversy: “I and those for whom I speak have no objection sentence of four months imprisonment for writing Freedom to ‘peaceful and separate develop­ LETIER BOX Charter slogans on the walls of buildings in Cape Town was ment’ which Mr. Strijdorn de­ refused by the Appeal Court in Bloemfontein. scribes as the traditional policy of Nel’s fantasy are to be brought these things are due to the un­ apartheid.” into existence. The Tomlinson hygienic conditions under which Two young men, one of them a 21-year-old student, both of Mr. Lee-Warden explained in Commission, in fact, pointed out the people live, without ever dis­ them first offenders, must now go to jail because the law says his letter to the Cape Argus of that the Africans could not create cussing the causes. I maintain that they went too far in expressing their desire for freedom for all in July 19, that by this he meant that the capital to bring about these these conditions will continue to Mr. Strijdorn is not the only one improved conditions, and there­ exist because this is the way the South Africa, irrespective of race, creed or colour. who believes in the rehabilitation fore insisted that for a start White Government wants things to be. of the Reserves. Again in his letter capital and initiative would be This is all part of a diabolical Found guilty of malicious injury to property, they were first to the Cape Argus of July 31 Mr. essential for the “separate deve­ scheme to ensure that the Re­ sentenced by the magistrate in Cape Town. Many people thought Lee-Warden, after quoting Mr. lopment” of the African areas. serves subsidise the white areas.” the sentence excessive. After all, here were two young men “in M. C. de Wet Nel M.P. on the But this is precisely the point virtues of the Tomlinson report, where Dr. Verwoerd insists he CONTRADICTION trouble” for the first time: is it not the practice of the courts to says; ‘‘I want to see African de­ cannot accept the Commission’s Yet barely a month later, in his extend the utmost leniency to such people and try to keep them velopment and advancement irre­ recommendations, and the Gov­ letter to the Times, Mr, Lee- out of jail? Why could they not have been given the option of spective of what it is called. I ernment has made it known that Warden calmly announces that he a fine? judge a programme by its deeds it will not allow White capital to has “no objection to ‘peaceful and and not its words.” be invested in the Reserves. separate development’ which Strij- But neither the Supreme Court in Cape Town nor the Appeal dom describes as the traditional Court found any reason to interfere. Evidently their crime is far WHERE DOES HE STAND? TWO MONTHS AGO policy of apartheid!” Surely he must see that he has contradicted too serious for any considerations of mercy. To jail with those It is not surprising, in these Thus for most thinking South himself, and that neither of his who damage walls with Freedom Charter slogans! circumstances, that many of your Africans the Tomlinson report subsequent letters has served to readers are wondering just where and all talk of “separate develop­ clear up the confusion. Let us say here and now that we feel the courts have erred Mr. Lee-Warden stands today. If ment” turn out to be nothing but We suggest that Mr. Lee- grievously in this case. We find the sentence excessive. To be sent he believes ‘‘separate develop­ a propaganda device to distract ment” is possible, why does he Warden owes it to himself as well to jail for four months for a first offence of this sort seems to us attention from the horrid reality as his constituents to make it then add, in his letter of July 31, of apartheid oppression. Two to be out of all proportion to the seriousness of the case. that he firmly believes ‘‘there will quite clear that if he is for equal months ago Mr. Lee-Warden him­ rights in every sphere of life then be no solution to South Africa’s self was of the same opinion. In We might draw attention to the judgment given by Judges racial problems until justice, he must be against apartheid, humanity and equality prevail, an excellent speech on the Torn- whether it is called “separate Kuper and Marais in the Transvaal last week in the case of linson Report during the debate in development” or any other fancy and a prerequisite of the attain­ the House of Assembly, he said; Regina vs. Sibande, who had been sentenced by the magistrate ment of these ideals is the enjoy­ name. He cannot have it both “This report has been drawn up ways. to imprisonment without the option of a fine for attending a ment by the Non-European people in a vain endeavour to extricate of equal rights with their Euro­ SAM KAHN gathering in contravention of a banning notice. Sibande had the Government from a dilemma. appealed against the severity of the sentence. The judges said: pean fellow citizens in every The Commission was given the RAY ALEXANDER sphere of life?” Surely it is ob­ task of finding out whether apart­ BRIAN BUNTING vious that in the context of person who commits a political offence is not to be heid could work and how. It has Cape Town. present-day South Africa to talk of spent five years trying to turn a regarded in the same way as an ordinary person contravening the ‘‘separate development” is the political party platform slogan (This letter was subnritted to the ordinary criminal law of the country. For such an offence a very opposite of ‘‘equal rights in into a reality, and now its report Cape Argus, but was not pub­ every sphere of life?” Separate has been rejected by the party siBpended sentence of imprisonment is preferable to deter him development, whether under the lished.—^Ed.) present Reserve system or under that instigated it in the first from the course of conduct which he has adopted.” the proposed apartheid of the place.” Tomlinson Commission, means He went on to say that the If this is the view of the courts in the Transvaal, why not migratory labour and pass laws, Commission’s report sounded like I What About A "Bantu' elsewhere? We hope that people of goodwill who agree with us soil erosion and poverty, the able- handouts from the State Informa­ will write to the Minister of Justice, Mr. Swart, and ask for an bodied men and women in the tion Office. “Nowhere does this ^ Religion ? towns and the old and infirm in Commission discuss the inhuman If in the opinion of Dr. Ve - amnesty for these two young men, whose careers may otherwise the “separate areas.” Nowhere has migrant labour system which pro­ woerd and his advisers “Ban i be blasted by the experiences they are now forced to undergo. it been explained, by the Tomlin­ duces ‘surplus’ men in the towns Education” is in our interest (: s son Commission or the SABRA and ‘surplus’ women in the Re­ they always say) I maintain that intellectuals or Mr, de Wet Nel serves and which more than any­ a certain form of religion, prob­ or anybody else, just how the thing else destroys the very fabric ably “Bantu Religion,” would also “million posts for doctors, law­ of African family life,” He quoted be in our own interest. yers, merchants, administrators, to some alarming figures to show say nothing of African banks, how the health of the people in If Africans are not suitable for building societies and insurance the Reserves had deteriorated, and universal education, we may as added: “The Commission says well not be suitable for universal companies etc,” of Mr. de Wet religion, namely “Christian Reli­ WIESE BACK A T gion.” Could the master of traditions (Dr. Verwoerd) encourage us to WORK worship “The Creator” in our WOULD YOU TRY TO SAVE traditional ways? J^AST June Detective Constable Jan Ben Wiese was sentenced To a deep-thinking African “Bantu Education” is a direct to a fine of £75 (or 3 months) with an additional six months YOUR CHILD FROM challenge from White rulers. imprisonment suspended for two years, for killing 15-year-old Through it we can, in retaliation, hit harder than they thought. Omar Arend in the Woodstock police station. DANGER? FANYANA N. NGUBANE The judge held that it was Wiese’s negligence that led to the T^O you or do you not want to to use them both, well, our troubles Alexandra Township, death of Arend. The offence was a serious one, he said, and the see the continued existence of would be over. Johannesburg. penalty could not be light and should act as a warning to others New Age? That is not just a theore­ As it is, things are just not good concerning the way they handled firearms. tical question. It is a very real one. enough as you will see from this For the people's paper is in danger week’s total. All of you who value of its life. And when something that the freedom of the press, do not Schoolboy's Advice The police authorities apparently do not take the same serious is loved is in danger and can be delay one moment longer. SEND view of Wiese’s offence, BECAUSE HE IS BACK ON THE saved, those that love it rally round US YOUR DONATION TODAY. On Passes and do their utmost to restore it. NEW AGE MUST BE SAVED! JOB AT THE VERY SAME POLICE STATION WHERE I am a 21-year-old schoolboy This is what our readers must do THIS WEEK’S DONATIONS: HE COMMITTED THE OFFENCE. for New Age. This week there are who has been wondering and two examples of what can be done A.S. (Reader) 2.6d.; Athol and Bub­ thinking about the ladies’ pass You can phone Cape Town 5-1315 and speak to him yourself! to help keep New Age as it is. The bles £5; Unity £2.2; B.L. £10; Mr. books. Wc have come to the point Textile Workers’ Union in Cape Z. £1; Collection box (Ray) £1.1.2; where the law wants to let the H. 9s.; R. and M. 15s.; M.T. £25; ladies pay tax in the near future. In our opinion this shows a contemptuous attitude on the part Town has sent £2.2 towards the Textile Workers’ Union £2.2; M.K. of the police authorities towards the people of the Woodstock paper and the Food and Canning £8; G.M.J. (Reader) 9s.; Literature Please, mothers and sisters, 1 Workers’ Union collected 9s. lOd, would advise you to oppose the area. Wiese’s crime aroused intense emotions at the time amongst in a collection box at one of the £4; Sacred River £10; H.K. £15; Food and Canning Workers (Collec­ passes and you, gentlemen, not to the general public. Neither the Arend family, who lost a son, nor factories. tion tin) 9.10d.: M.S. £3.3; P.G. allow your wives to carry passes. In themselves these amounts are £1.1; E.B. £1; Bengo £5; Les £1. If you do not take this advice, the whole neighbourhood can ever forget what happened. small. But if every trade union who you will have to pay tax and values the paper would make sure Previously you’ll be arrersted under section Yet the police authorities care so little for public opinion acknowle^ed £4,914 16 7 that their shop stewards had a col­ 17, just as now section 10 is al­ that they put Wiese back on the job just as though nothing had lection tin or list, the small amounts Total this week 97 14 6 ready working in all the towns would become big amounts. And if and cities. happened. They will have only themselves to blame if this results every activist in the Congress move­ in a further deterioration of the relations between police and ment had a tin in his home and a TOTAL TO DATE £5,012 11 1 ROBERT D. MOKETE list in his pocket—and remembered Bloemfontein, people in the area. VICTORY SETTLEMENT IN EVATON

JOHANNESBURG. which, as a result of the interven­ A VICTORY settlement was due tion of thugs and gangsters, saw 15 to be signed this week that will deaths, 100 injured and the destruc­ end the year-long Evaton bus boy­ tion of a number of houses. If the cott. agreement is signed this week, that The leaders of the Evaton Peo­ could all be over. ple’s Transport Council told a huge If any people deserved victory it Evaton meeting on Sunday of their is these Evaton residents. The resounding victory following the meeting on Sunday was urged by long drawn-out and heroic boycott their People's Transport Council leaders to accept the terms of settle­ Coloured Protest ment “before the Government turns a great victory for the African peo­ At Group Areas ple into an excuse to use force.” This referred to Verwoerd’s threats Proclamation to take over control of the town­ JOHANNESBURG. ship and deport “agitators,” and The Coloured people of Alberts- end freehold. ville township, proclaimed as a The meeting lasted over 4\ hours. White group area, at a protest meet­ The terms of the settlement are ing last week-end agreed that a briefly the restoration of fares to petition be organised against their their original rates, which means a removal, reduction from Is. to 6d., and the “The Coloured people are being erection of bus shelters; also that treated as dogs,” said one speaker all the bus company’s African em­ from the Congress movement. ployees be Evaton residents. If the Thousands of pounds have been company increases fares without invested by the people in perma­ consulting the People’s Transport These women at UUenhage last week took the anti-pass petitions nent homes which they are now Council, which the company now from their area to the Native Commissioner. ordered to abandon. recognises as the official body re­ 700 Women presenting the people of Evaton, the company will pay a penalty of £500 tv) the Council. The company will Protest In o o n r r l e t WOMEN give the Council an option if , the buses are put up for sale and if it tries to sell without informing the Crndock Transport Council beforehand it FIGHT ALONE! ” will forfeit a penalty of £500. A bus CAPE TOWl ! depot is to be established at Evaton Further reports of anti-pass Ide- and new timetables have been drawn monstrations on August 9 reacfied up by the People’s Transport Coun­ New Age last week. cil. In CRADOCK some 700 wornen 104 Ermelo Women from all corners of the location ANC Colls On Men To Finally the agreement provides gathered at Mpenyula Rock on Au­ that at least 50 per cent of the in­ gust 9. From there they marched in Sentenced spectors employed will be Non- Europeans. groups to town to see Mr. Barker, Join Anti-Pass Campaign JOHANNESBURG. the Native Commissioner. Seven At the time of going to press both women acted as the spokeswomen JOHANNESBURG.—In the struggle against passes there must One hundred and four Ermelo the Transport Council and the bus while as many as possible crowded he greater unity among the African people and the broadest possible women arrested on the day they company had agreed to the terms into the courtroom to hear the re­ alliance of not only the Congress movement, but of democrats staged a protest to the Native Com­ and only the formal signing of this solution of protest read. outside, says a resolution passed by the African National Congress missioner against passes were settlement document still remained. Meanwhile policemen warned national executive which met iii this city over the week-end of the convicted of taking part in a pro­ those waiting outside not to block women’s anti-pass protest cession without permission from the The boycott committee had de­ the traffic. When the interview with town authorities last week. cided, its chairman Mr. Y. Make the Commissioner was concluded, Men, who are even more affected Broad anti-pass committees under all the women marched home sing­ than the women by the pass laws, the guidance of Congress should be All 104 were sentenced to a told the Evaton people, “the time ing national songs. At the pteying are playing the role of spectators formed with Congress members and suspended sentence of £3 fine or 20 had come to restore peace in Eva­ ground, the leaders reported to those while women are vigorously cam­ those who have joined in this days in prison. ton.’* who had been left behind; the peo­ paigning, says the Congress, Men (tru g ^ against passes. ple sang the national anthem, and are called upon to enter this major dispersed. campaign unreservedly. “The ten­ Policemen followed the women dency of regarding this as a wo­ all the way from the Native Com­ man’s struggle must be abandoned. missioner’s office, and waited till Various forms of protests and the meeting was over. struggle against pass laws and pass INDIANS CONDEMN TECHNICAL Cradock Youth Leaguers played raids must be embarked upon by a leading role in organising the men and women jointly throughout' demonstration. the country.” In GRAHAMSTOWN the Native COLLEGE APARTHEID Commissioner refused to see the Section 10 of the Urban Areas women, saying he was too busy. He Act and influx control in the rural, DURBAN.—The Indian people of Durban have been shocked by the announcement asked them to send their protest by areas should be made the pivot of! post. When they insisted that they made by the Minister of Education, Arts and Science, Mr. Viljoen, at the opening of the M.L. wanted to interview the Native the campaign and the people made] Commissioner, police drove them aware that section 10 is part of the Sultan Technical College, that admission to the college for full-time courses will be restricted away. pass system and the most inhuman to Indian students only, as a result of a decision “by the College Council taken entirely of Undeterred, the women plan to and vicious form of restriction its own accord.” hold another protest demonstration. which affects men and women In EAST LONDON over 50 wo­ equally. The Minister attacked what he The “agitators” referred to by statement to New Age, said that men gathered in the grounds of the termed “Indian and Native agitators Mr. Viljoen are no doubt the Afri­ during the lifetime of the late Mr. Native Commissioner’s Office on Every man and woman, in every who opposed the non-admission of can National Congress and the Sultan the admission of African August 9, while their spokeswomen city, dorp or village, must be drawn African students to full-time classes Natal Indian Congress, who have, students was an accepted fact. For presented their protest to the Act­ into tile struggle. at the College and the possible re­ since the College was built early example, in the year 1953, over 500 ing Native Commissioner. striction of part-time enrolments,” this year, been continually fighting non-Indian students were enrolled. Every woman of the 50,000 who He said that there was no need for the unrestricted admission of Further it was also well known took part in the national and local for Indians to concern themselves students of all races. that at no time did the late Mr. protests against pass laws should be with the education of Africans, and Replying to the Congresses and Sultan—a great humanitarian and Amato Workers called on to sign the Freedom that educationists who had studied other organisations who had con­ a believer in the equality of man— Charter, and should become an the courses which had been pre­ demned the College Council for its ever state that the College was to Sentenced active worker, mobilising others in scribed under the Bantu Education action in debarring African enrol­ be exclusively for Indians. JOHANNESBURG. the struggle against passes. Act, were of the opinion that in ments, Mr. H, Natrass, the Principal None of the subsequent donors The prosecution against Amato many respects these courses were of the College, went to considerable made any condition regarding the textile workers in Benoni which has superior to those set for European pains to show that this decision was admission of students. dragged on for months came to an schools. taken by the Council as a result of The statement by the NIC adds: end last week when 197 workers Correction pressure from the officials of the “It is astounding that the College were convicted of taking part in an AFRICAN REPLY Department of Education, Arts and Council should allow themselves to illegal strike. They were fined £5 CAPE TOWN. The feeling of African students Science. be used to advance the obnoxious each, with the alternative of one about this can be summed up by In a cyclostyled statement issued policy of apartheid in the field of month’s imprisonment. The workers It was incorrectly stated in last the following comment of Mr. X, on April 28, 1956, Mr, Natrass went education by taking a decision have noted an appeal. week’s New Age that three candi­ who is preparing for his National even further, and tried to make out which discriminates against African Senior Certificate at the Sultan that the late Mr. M. L. Sultan, who students. Even on the last day of the case dates were being put up by the the defence asked the magistrate to College: “We would much rather had contributed the initial sum of “The Natal Indian Congress be­ recuse himself on the grounds that Congress movement for election to have the inferior education that is £17,500 towards the building of this lieves that technical institutes such he had been taken through Amato the Student Representative Council being given to the European stu­ College, had intended that it should as the M. L. Sultan College should textile workers by the canagement at the University of Cape Town. No dents. We oppose this so-called be “for the benefit of the Indian be open to all sections of our multi­ superior Bantu Education and hope community only.” while the case was on. The magi­ political groupings are allowed at racial society, for it is only by strate said his visit to the mill had that the agitation against the Bantu studying and working together that nothing to do with the prosecution, U.C.T. The candidates are standing Education Act will continue una- NIC VIEW racial harmony can be established and he refused to recuse himself. as individuals. abated,” The Natal Indian Congress, in a on a firm foundation.”

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