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’ SUNDAY TIMES POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT | CAPE TOWN, Saturday. llTNITED PARTY policy will lead eventually to a racially-mixed Parliament, but power will be itained in the hands of the White group “for the fore seeable future.” This emphatic statement was made by United Party spokesmen this week after the first of a series of post-election meetings to review the party’s programme. The spokesmen denied, however, that there is “ virtually no difference" now Ifaetjaeen United Party and Progressive Party policy, as has been alleged in the Nation alist Press. all voters. In this way the White This number too could be in-j Following the publication of!group would ensure that control creased eventually and the| of the country would remain in M.P.s could be Asians. [an article by Mr. Marais Steyn 'civilised hands.” • The rest of the M.P.s would! jin the SUNDAY TIMES News The United Party has not be elected by Whites and, decided yet how many M.P.s the Coloureds together, and In time! [ Magazine last week giving Asians should have, but the Coloureds would be able tpj [details of the United Party's figure would not be fewer than nominate members of their own] 1 Race Federation ” plan, a three — this was the number group for election In constitu General Smuts wanted to give encies where this was practic-J I part?' spokesman outlined the Asians in 1946. able. [differences with the Progres- The Coloureds would be re stored to the common roll sub questions ject to certain qualifications fce- Referendum :ntal . difference,-oerase the United Party regards The deduction that members tike vote issue. them as members of the While, of the different race groups would SSive Party wanted Westernised group of the popula ultimately be able to elect M.P.s qualification test to tion. from their own^groups is inherent g ars, White and non-White— In the whole concept of race •jtlppidard VI certificate and an The Assembly federation. So is the idea of a Income of R600 a year. racially - integrated Parliament, If the United Party were to Government and Cabinet. come to power tomorrow the Seeing that White voters will Dilemma House of Assembly then would be predominate initially, they will be Under present conditions, said constituted as follows: in a position to regulate the the spokesman, this would lead • Eight White M.P.s elected by ratio between White and non- rapidly to a non-White majority Native voters on a separate roll. White representation In Parlia in Parliament. There was no Ultimately this number could be ment—until such time as the need way ; out of the Progressive extended by agreement with the for regulation falls away. Party's dilemma. If it kept the other racial groups. Ultimately, present qualifications, the non- too, the M.P.s could be Natives. Native areas Whites would swamp the Whites. 0 An undefined number of If ifr-raised the qualifications, then White M.P.s but not fewer than Some Native areas, such as the the non-Whites would be swamped three, elected by Asian voters. Trapskei, would probably be by the Whites and their vote placed on the same footingfi asd ie H would become meaningless. the provinces. They would havej In terms of United Party limited measure of autonomy policy there might be a qualifi and be represented in Parliament cation test for Natives and by M.P.s. Asians, but it would not be an > T h ey would never be indepen important test. dent provinces, however. This Each of their groups would is where the United Party’s f plan clashes sharply with the have its own voters’ roll with-a j defined number of constituencies. ! . Government's Bantustan policy. The United Party does not The strength of the Natives jj believe In the "fragmeptisation" and!1 Asians in Parliament would of South Africa. be determined by the number bf Tjje. “provincial” system will these constituencies. also make provision for the pos The United Party, It Is sible Inclusion of territories like ^_ ted, believes that the Native Southern Rhodesia. population must be given eight (See "Astonishing reaction toj a «eats in the House of Assembly lediately. Initially these T.P. plan,” Page 4; and “There’s ts would be occupied by hope in the U.P. programme,” W hite M.P.s. Page 14). The spokesman explained .that no change* In the number of Native M.P.s could be brought about without a referendum of. —
174 MAIN STREET, r n m t s JOHANNESBURG. DECEMBER 10, 1961. THE PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE A CLEAR POLICY HE United Party’s policy for a Federa as restoring the rights of the Coloured T tion of Races, set out in the SUNDAY people' and giving the Natives represen TIMES last'week by Mr. Marais Steyn tation in Parliament. Those phases would M.P., has made a tremendous impact be concurrent, and would pave the way for throughout South Africa. the final phase, the Federation of the One curious reaction — and it comes Races. from the right wing Nationalists as well In this Federation, all races will share; as fr,om the leftist Progressives----is that The Federation Plan, which has an imme the United Party's Federation is some diate and dynamic appeal as providing thing -new, and that it represents a sudden the best solution to our complex racial move or swing to the left. problems, rests upon two concepts of pro Nothing could be further from the found importance: truth. There has been no change in United 1. Federation gives the non-Whites an Party policy, which was announced long opportunity to govern themselves abso ago. Nevertheless, there is a difference — lutely in matters that concern them alone; not in the policy itself (which is at the same time it gives them the chance unchanged) — but in the manner in which to share directly, through their own repre it is being presented to the people. The sentatives, in the Federal Government of United Party’s Federation plan is being South Africa. expressed with a directness and a clarity 2. Federation, which is the alternative that did not exist before. to apartheid, is also the only alternative That is the difference. The policy is to apartheid that preserves and maintains the same; the manner of its presentation the civilised standards brought to South has been immeasurably improved? Africa by its White inhabitants. The United Party has much to reproach That is where Federation differs itself for because it did not present its radically from Progressive Party’s inte views more clearly in the past. For that gration policy. The cornerstone upon omission it has suffered; and it has no one which Federation rests is that the position to blame but itself. But it does not intend of the Whites shall be guaranteed. Pro to make the same mistake again. Mr. gressive policy, on the other hand, deliber Marais Steyn’s statement in the SUNDAY ately creates conditions which will sub TIMES last week is evidence of a new merge the Whites in a Black sea. determination to ensure that United Party The United Party’s Federation of the policy will be made known and understood, Races offers South Africa the solution it beyond doubt or dispute. has long been seeking — a shared society, Indeed, the better the Federation Plan with a place in the Government for its is understood, the more the United Party non-Whites, and with the Federal control will benefit, for it is plain that the United placed firmly m—the hands of civilised Party's multi-racial plan is the only one men. Much more will be heard of Federa that has any hope of reconciling the tion. One cannot claim it to be the perfect alarming conflicts between Black and plan, it has its weaknesses; and it cannot White and between South Africa and the perform miracles. But, taking into account world. the cross-currents of conflict, fear and The Federation policy, as Mr. Steyn tension which bedevil South Africans at made clear, has three phases. First, to every turn, the most satisfactory' nUn ’ -t repeal some of the harmful legislation put forward to resolve those^conflicts with ’ ' “ *’ " malis.t Government. .fairness to all. is the Iiniiwi ...... proposal i;or a: k» cuu ii'eagrattoa," gp
always White If we’ve distinguished between Orientals This is but one of the mere incidentals To the sensational fact that we’ve made Export apartheid the touchstone of trade; For, by this step, we’ve established that we , Can alter colour by pimple decree And thus confer on a purchaser nation Some of the blessings of race separation. «áSg&j-- Every true patriot should get a grip on T What we’ve achieved by this bleaching of Nippon; Now that we’ve raised these erstwhilt Little Yellow Men Up to the level of privileged fellow-men, We have “ carte blanche,” as it were, to extend Similar status to any who spend Roubles, piastres or fen or rupees Upon our wool or our iron or cheese. "Buying South African,” just like the Japs, Now can make White men of all sorts of chaps: Nasser or Nehru, or even Nkrumah, May, by a trade pact, contrive to assume a Hue that on difficult U.N. occasions Could bring us allies of ex-Afro-Asians, (Easing at once both the war on our nerves And the decline in our foreign reserves.) Let us with zest the new custom pursue, Crying: “ You buy and we trade-in your hue,” Or, as our salesmen go confident forth To the fresh markets that lie to the North, They can proclaim to the States now emergent; “ Our goods all come with a built-in detergent.” For we with truth can the adage re-write: ______There’s [MR. J. LWVSEN, His Majesty's Building, Jolian- i nf>s burg: |]y|R. MARAIS STEYN, in his forceful article, programme “The U.P.’s Road to South Africa’s Future” I (SUNDAY TIMES, December 3) has very fairly Although non-racial in theory posed the dilemma of reconstructing the Oppo But they are the only group could eventually do w'hat the which has made any headway at United Party has failed to do — anti perhaps intention it is dis sition in the present South African situation. all among the politically-con- that is get the White electorate criminatory in fact and would This is It can and On the one side is the Natio geious non-Whites, where the two to endorse its programme — its stimulate, not appease, African spread of token opposition. alternative choices are between carefully contrived safeguards nationalism. nalist Party, granite - walled, What of the United Party monolithic, determined to force They may, as they claim, fight African nationalism on the one would be swept away by the non- will work the Nationalists harder, but they hand and the liberal doctrine of Whites. solution? The plan for a race- H. C. BUCHLER, Flat 10, Ion to a multi-racial society a federation as put forward by Mr. the only will fight geographically on a a truly non-racial society; with The system would be chal Zidel’s Corner, Spencer political system rejected by non- Steyn, was hazily foreshadowed Whites (almost in toto), by a very much narrower front, with checks and safeguards against lenged both from within and Avc., Maraisburg; without; by the ' non-White in the election campaign and is significant minority of Whites a resultant decline in the total -minority or majority tyranny, TT seems clear to me, and opposition muster. but with the democratic recog voters who attained 'the fran clearly embryonic. (who are divided as to the alter Neither detáils, nor even basic I am sure to the many native), and by the whole of the Despite the isolated Afrikaner nition which the 20th Century chise, whose leaders would con intellectuals who have crossed demands, namely, that the vote tinue to demand tor their people postulates, have been worked out. thousands who may have outside world. This is perhaps an advantage: read Mr. Marais Stcyn’s Within the electorate, this the bar, the Progressives’ main cannot be restricted, either on what other Africans possess grounds of colour, class or so- elsewhere: and by the revolu one of the great drawbacks of MR. J. I’. OLIVER, of Point article on the United Party’s party is still advancing. (I dis recruiting ground is the United policy of "ordered advance,” Party. called education. tionary force of the virtually the Progressive programme is Road, Durban: agree with Mr. Steyn’s assess that it has been stereotyped in that the United Party has ment. in an earlier article in There is flo sign of any Pro Of all the outside pressures disfranchised, who would claim, T WANT to 'congratulate you which bear on South Africa, this the ante-room, and declared at last come up with a “con The Star, that* there ha£ been gressive foothold on ths Natio in the names both of democracy pressure of the universal fran and African nationalism, that unalterable except by rigid pro for publishing Mr. Marais crete” policy—a policy that no Nationalist gain since the nalist granite wall nor of any chise is the most potent. "vote for all" which has become cedure, before it hasreached the Steyn’s' article. CAN and WILL work in referendum.) And it is also en Progressive dynamite which will Trade sanctions, if applied, the political talisman of our practical political laboratory People like myself now know South Africa’s unique racial couraged, and stimulated, by the blast open the Nationalist may or may not be effective. century. where all programmes should be set-up. divisions among the Opposition. stronghold. where we stand. As I see it this It will not only satisfy the (Will or could the Western Safeguards tested and modified. The traditional anti - Natio Inroail* The United Party programme Is the only policy that can be needs of every group, White, nations, one asks, boycott the Black or Yellow, but it null nalist party, the United Party, purchase of South African gold, is explicitly not based on any followed in South Africa. is now suffering attrition on The problem of building up an close the mouths of South The Progressives, while leaving in order to force an alteration of hope or belief in a non-racial I had my doubts about the both sides: on its right from the the Nationalists intact, have opposition which can, within our Africa’s so-called “enemies” our race policies?) narrowing time-limit, both effect society. It accepts multi-racial future of the United Party. I Nationalists, and on its urban, undermined not only the United ism as a fact; sees South Africa _ in the outside world. English - speaking left - centre, Party, but have also made in But what possible hope is a change of government and a had to reject the Nationalist, Pro there, in the presence of the new reordering of our political system as a country where the different from the Progressives. roads into the small, struggling gressive and Liberal policies. lK!IIUItllllll!llllllUIHIIIitllllllllllll1UIIIIIII)IIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIillilllllllll||||||l||| African States and their dynamic to secure racial harmony and races are already, to some extent, Any considerable Progrêssive Liberal Party—the only party, geographically zoned, and where, They were all too extreme. They Mr. Steyh justly observes, which intolerant nationalism, of peg security is thus not likely to be gains in the cities will, moreover, ging and limiting the franchise in the intermingled areas, a speed the United Party’s col opposes to Nationalist policy solved by the Progressives. must inevitably fail. in South Africa, with the con Their system of inbuilt safe federal grouping can be achieved lapse both in the platteland, and the direct antithesis of a non- on the basis of group represen The United Party is the only The plan sent of the voteless ithe great guards and predetermined vote in those urban seats where racial, universal franchise. tation. party I can put my trust In and The Liberals have so insignifi majority of whom will be Afri- qualifications is, in a very dif Nationalism has consistently ferent way and with very dif This lies very far indeed from that applies to the future of my been advancing. cant a following in the White • cans) ? , Liberal theory—in which morally electorate that .this, setback, in For this in essence is what the ferent intentions, almost As rigid children. 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u Your policy Nats, all over country is more want to know more realistic” SUNDAY TIMES REPORTER Typical of letters to Mr. “ MULTI-RACIAL FEDERALISM” — the dynamic doctrine of the United Marais Steyn about the Uni- Party’s “ multi-racial Party for a radical solution of South Africa’ s colour problem— may seize federation” plan, was one popular imagination with even more dramatic force than the doctrine of from Bloemfontein o f which this is an extracts apartheid. “I did not expect it would be like | K “... In the past I have This possibility is indicated always voted for the National this quite so soon.” ist Party. I may be regarded by the astonishing reaction to Quite clearly, he said, the United? ' ■ s & ! 3 I i content? ALF EINSTEIN, of Livingstone Street, Fairmount, ' ■' Á : • Johannesburg: LEWSEN has put forward some novel reasons for condemning the Progressive trty and for supporting the United Party’s ;eleton plan for Race Federation. Progressive Party policy Hacks won't does not discriminate on ground of colour. It believes “Strength P/ef it work in equal opportunity and equal rights for all civilised !»m . THOMAS BOYDELL, Area- men. Bay View Avenue, Tam- I feel sure that Mr. Lewsen’s vilification” oers Kloof, Cape Town: fellow-members in the Liberal Party must be astonished that United Party’s proposal he thinks that the United Party, for a Group Federation Par- with its plan for Race Federa nent won’t work, for one tion, “has now, very tentatively, offered us a goal.” simple reason — the Blacks won’t be Prog, slogan Does he think that the Afri let it. The Africans will see in cans will be content for the fore ’Ur a political dodge to diddle seeable future with eight White B. N. LAWRENCE, Commissioner Street, Johannesburgt them out of the power which representatives in the Federal M O one will be surprised at the reaction of the j equal political rights — one man, Parliament? ijge vote — would give them. Does Mr. Lew&en really think sives to the United Party’s Federation policy, that any of the non-White With one voice throughout the groups will accept with equan menting on Mr. Marais Steyn’s thoughtful and IjblHinent the Blacks contend imity White domination for the reasoned analysis of the plan, Mrs. Helen Suzman, that political representation foreseeable future? should no longer rest on educa 1^1 The difference between Mr. had no difficulty in producing a Progressive-type tion or salary but on something Lewsen and Mr. Einstein is “ logical, reasoned” argument in reply. “ Fatuous” Bch more important—"human that where Mr. Lewsen analyses her comment. ngs.” United Party policy on its merits '"Were it not for the Bantu Mr. Einstein simply misrepresents That other great master-mind it. f homelands policy, the Republic of higher Progressive thinking, would be in the same sorry mess The United Party says nowhere Mr. Ray Swart, also found it The dignity as Rhodesia, Kenya, Nyasaland that Africans will have " eight easy to demolish the U.P.’s Racial and the Congo. White representatives in the Federation plan. "Fraudulent," Federal Parliament for the fore he cried. “Fatuous" and "Fraudu seeable future.” lent! ” This is the contribution to Pipe dreams What the United Party plans public debate from two leading is to put eight White representa Progressives. I hope the solitary of the 1 MB. J. GEYSER, Johan Brits tives IMMEDIATELY into the Progressive M.P. Intends to rise present unitary Parliament. above that level when she gets A Street, Noordhoek, Bloemfon- Then, in the next phase, when to Parliament. :,% tein: the Federation is created, repre Abuse is typical of the tech-, ’l /1 PARTHEID is considered a sentatives of all races would nique which the Progressives enter the Federal Parliament. "pipe dream” by part of our have brought Into public life — DR. K. A. MURRAY, Athol I population, and very regretfully This is quite clearly stated — argument by way of epithet and yet Mr. Einstein, a Progressive Avenue, Cralghall, Johannes the proposed multi-racial Federa insult. burg: tion will be similarly classified. Party candidate in the election, has no trouble in misrepresenting Anyone who chooses to look Êv'JThe architects of this scheme the U.P. statement. back on Progressive statements ]yjR S. M. K. MITCHELL (SUN seem to have ignored the wave of The U.P.’s plan is dealt with or Progressive letters (written DAY TIMES, December 3) Black nationalism swept through in a leading article on Page 16. mainly by the party machine) has asked for an explanation of this continent by the winds of to the newspapers, will find a change. A debate? staggering assortment of insults, how the United Party upholds ■ . Are they so naive to think that , most of them hurled at the the principle of "the dignity of jtthe Black man in South Africa United Party. "Rotten,” "de the individual.” MR. J. C. JOSLIN, Y.M.C.A., cayed,” "useless," "futile,” "evil,’’ dll be prepared to compromise Rissik Street, Johannesburg: "senile” and even "dead" are Basically the principle Is one of ’hile his brothers in other parts among the imposing list. Now it regard for the desire of an in of Africa demand all or nothing? \TR. MARAIS STEYN’S article is "Fatuous” and "Fraudulent.” dividual to achieve a "state of 1-Apartheid may not be the (SUNDAY TIMES, Decem ber 3) has promoted a great No Progressive worth his salt belonging" to his sector of society hal. answer to our problems ever goes very far from hie list jit, for the foreseeable future, deal of thought and speculation. and to have a stake in .ttm This is the first time in many of abusive epithets. £ multi-racial Federation seems future of such. sector, whereby lýen more futile. years that the United Party has Since the Progressives are so put a plan to the electorate. fond of slogans, I can suggest he is granted all the fun I suggest that you promote a some for them that would be damental rights, including - the Ganging up public debate by inviting the appropriate. franchise, freeddm of speech a1*1! Progressive Party to write a "Argument by abuse. Strength religion, and the liberty o f-the f HODSON, P.O. Voi, Kenya: similar article on its plan. through vilification.” subject. j^HE third phase of Mr. Marais The United Party’s “Federa Steyn’s plan appears to ig- tion of Races” plan, contrary to Jre the possibility of the various presentatives of the non-White the Nationalist plan (involving the church domination), is essentially based presentatives in the Federal sembly ganging up on their on a policy of "linked responsi hite colleagues to force con- bility ” which grants a large isions until they hold a measure of colligative self-gbv- |jority. ernment to all homogenous to blame? sectors of the community which, If this happened the Whites in turn, are linked together “by* uld doubtless find themselves H.M. SELVEY, of Tralee Road, refusal to allow him to use a central government composed . the position of the settlers Kenmare, Krugersdorp: a tape recorder and steno of responsible, representatives í Kenya — pawns in the hands THHE Rev. S. P. du Plessis claims grapher. from such sectors. | power-crazed Africans. that the decline in morals of • Our Government has re he alternative would be to the people of the Rand is because The dignity of the individual they have turned away from his peatedly claimed Divine would appear to be fully taken cide before they were given guidance, a claim which his «presentation just how many church. (SUNDAY TIMES, care of since he will be granted November 26.) church has never refuted. It all the fundamental rights; and pn-Whites would eventually be has, in fact, been fostered. I the House and try to stick to It may be that the fault lies his sector of the community will Bis figure. primarily within the church God decrees, therefore, that have a stake in the central itself. we shall have apartheid, job Parliament of the RepublicJ* The danger of non-Whites Mr. Du Plessis might explain reservation, banishments, influx ■ r " ganging up ” inside Parlia- these points which I find in control, the Immorality Act. L »nt is surely preferable to the explicable : Then why did God change HIs|i tiger of their " ganging up" views about the skin colour of tj side Parliament. • The heresy trial of a dis tinguished professor and the the Japanese? if.-i.-r-;: ,v\ L . 7 C J l p j p - íasg-.í? i eace LETTER w* publish today from a and harness racial conflicts, the system A leading Progressive shows that he has that oan best be adapted to bring morn» not made much effort to understand the kind of unity to our diversity. Once that United Party’s plan for race federation. proposition is grasped and understood the He takes it to mean “ eight White repre rest follows readily enough. sentatives for the Africans in the Federal When the federal framework has been Parliament for the foreseeable future.” created, the Parliamentary representation This is a curious interpretation, because of Nativee by Whites falls away. All raeee the United Party says nothing of the kind. will then be entitled to direct representa Yet the plan is easy enough to understand, tion in the multi-racial federal Parliament, particularly if it is followed in its three and to a share in the government of the separate stages. country. Parliament will control matters Phase 1: The United Party will of common Interest, suoh m immediately repeal certain discreditable foreign affaire, postal services and laws, such as the ban on academic freedom, job reservation and restrictions on Bantu But, because South Africa will then be education. a racial federation, certain functions of •jjE»'.. ''- ~{*sS Phase 2 (which, in effect, is concurrent government, which cannot be conveniently with Phase 1): The United Party will surrendered in a unitary system, will be restore franchise rights to the Coloureds; passed on to different racial groups, so that give the Native people up to eight White they acquire power to regulate the affairs representatives in Parliament; and foster which oonoern them alone. The essence the emergence of a property-owning Native of the federal policy is not a system of middle class. Phase 1 and Phase 2 would separate rolls, but devolution of the func be implemented immediately. tions of government. Before we come to consider Phase 3, a The United Party’s Federation plan is most important point must be grasped by based on two fundamental principles. The the reader if he is to understand the United first is to give all the people of South Party’s plan for a Racial Federation. Africa a direct, share in our democratic South Africa does not yet have a federal institutions of government. The second system. It is a union. Therefore Phases is to safeguard those institutions for all 1 and 2 must necessarily be applied within the people by ensuring that they remain our present union, or unitary constitution. in the control of civilised men. That But they are essential preliminaries, means, for the foreseeable future, that they because they open the way to Phase 3 and will remain in the control of the White Federation. Phases 1 and 2 are the bridge group, not because they are White but head for the advance towards a new and because they are clearly the most advanced happier South Africa. custodians of Western standards of Phase 3: The third phase brings us civilisation. to the dynamic of the U.P. plan because it A feature of the programme is that, involves a dramatic change from a unitary at every stage, there will be constant to a federal type of Government. This consultation with the non-White groups. step is the crucial impulse of the U.P.’s Much of the detail still has to be worked policy. out, but the plan is clear; the principles In the United Party’s view a just underlying it are explicitly stated; and the solution of the racial conflict cannot be creatiqn of a multi-racial government is achieved in our present union, or unitary the positive goal. system. There is so much divergence and Racial federation is the plan which conflict that “ union ” has become a Nationalists, in particular, must study with misnomer. Indeed, when regard is taken care; for it is the alternative that they will of our needs, and of the pressures upon be obliged to turn to when, in the not us, a union is an outmoded, obsolete form distant future, the policy of baasskap itution. A federation, on the other apartheid, reaches its final stages of : system best suited to reconcile frustration and-disillusion. L * MYSTERY SCULPTURE By Bob Connolly ★ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 U.P. MUST MOVE TO A LEFT m DIE ge, ' Looking; back I cannot help! feeling that it was an error of I the gravest for the United I Party to have made that elec-l toral bargain with Japie Bas-I son. I do not. believe that this? "horse-trade” got, the United! Party a single vote. People whol dislike Verwoerd and his policies! “would vote against the Govern-f ment whatever label the candi-j date bore. So far from reducing! m m the Nationalist majoritie whether the candidate m United Party or National Unio.. they underwent massive in u* creases. Nor do I think that the I , National Union has any\ message for South Africa, orf i. will be of any use to the United | Party. It is simply anotherl party of the Right, halfway \ between the Nationalist DOMINANCE If disaster is coming ‘ the United Party policy will not avert It. It is as firmly basfji on racial dominance as is that of Dr. Verwoerd. Not only has it shed its liberal wing, but it has done its best to extinguU. it. The only way out as / see it is the Progressive way, the way now being followed with conspicuous success by South- I L P . ’ s TO S. AFRIC A’S FUTURE *<*mturn?*: Dramatic plan 1 iiiii!iihiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiíiiiiiiiiiiiiuii!»ii';!Iiii:iii:iiiii;í<í;i consultation. But its principles are clear and defined. to solve The first principle Is that our present simple, unitary fliiiiiiiniiM ...... government will be replaced by a federal government in which all races will share. In addition Wm there will be a devolution of the functions of government so that each race will assume our race control in constituent govern JIWIUIMIIHfllllUHIIIIUUUIIIflllllHlflHllltHUOSnUllIIIIBHnMISHMMMRHMMMHIIMMnPWHHIIIIKtHnillilifMHMMnilDiUUlDIU ment agencies of those matters intimately affecting itself, while matters of common in terest like defence, postal ser vices. foreign policy, inter-race relations, international trade MR. S. J. MARAIS (to mention some) will remain STEYN, writer of the problems in the hands of the central, article on this page. federal government. This will L he the fundamental departure from our present system. This change is necessary be This will require that ulti which authority tried in vain cause the federal system is the SIB DE VILLIERS mate power for the foresee to rationalise repression, and only one devised by the inge able future will remain in GRAAFF, leader of the the beginnin of a new era nuity of man which gives outlets the hands of the White United Party — the of advance and justice for all to divergent communities while group, not because they are party’s plan for a South in South Africa. The change also giving form to the over White, but because they are oi direction will be imme riding need for unity among the in fact, as a group, the African multi - racial diately visible and arresting. divergent groups It is also able vehicle of our civilisation and federation is outlined on The first stage will be the to give a measure of real protec the guardians of Western this page. undoing of apparent Injustices tion to the fundamental rights standards. : • i and anomalies, most of which -of individuals, groups and geo This object could be achieved have been created during the graphical communities. once we accept that, in a federa tion, the representation of con last 13 years. Such a federation will be based on races; it will not be a geo stituent communities need not This period will see the re essentially be equal or propor peal of a number of measures graphic federation, as in the tionate to the numbers of each which cannot be reconciled with United States for example. community. Alaska, where a Ordered advance to a But because of historical fac Western concepts of govern few tens of thousands of people tors and as the result of delibe ment. live, has equal representation rate policy since before Union, in the United States Senate with Examples of these measures there are in many parts of South the State of New York, where multi-racial federation -—and my list cannot be ex Africa geographical areas which many millions o f people live. haustive— are the Bantu Edu are the preserves of particular The United States remains a cation Act, the Prohibition of races. great and noble democracy. Interdicts Act, the Job Reserva There is, for example the We could, therefore, in a tion clause in the Industrial Transkei, where 2,000,000 Natives South African Senate have By S. J. MARAIS STEYN, M.P. Conciliation Act, and the live. The Transkei could speedily representation devised to avoid Separate Universities Act. be formed into a province, or a the submergence of civilised (Chairman of the Witicatersrand General Council of the United Party) Other measures will be constituent state of the South standards of freedom. amended. The Group Areas Act African federation. In the other House the gO U T H AFRICA today presents tlie picture of a is an example. It will be amen principle will have to be ded to avoid crude coercion Grid-iron such as to assure represen and to substitute measures fcr tation of greater value to country desperately, frantically, searching for a the more civilised, without the creation of attractive sepa barring a developing group rate residential areas. Other N other areas the solution will from achieving greater repre solution to difficult, and in many ways unprecedented, examples are the influx control be more complex. In Natal sentation as it advances. measures, the pass laws and the I the British administrators The answer to this has not ban on home ownership for long before Union introduced a yet been found with finality. problems. Natives in our urban areas. grid-iron policy, dividing Zulu- Several interesting suggestions land into alternating strips for are being considered. One, for In that search we are hindered and handicapped by the hyper Native and European settlement. example, is that representation Second phase The Native areas could be in the Assembly should be re critical busybodies from outside. W e are also bemused by the given ‘ local authorities which lated to the contribution a understandable inability of many of our people to think beyond would combine in electing particular group makes to tho E second phase, whicu will regional authorities and they national income. the type o f institution and the constitutional methods to which we in many respects be con could also combine to elect their Such a device will make it r current with the first, will representation in the central possible to recognise advance. IB have become used, and which hove been applied with great be a period of urgent constitu Parliament. will also obviate the necessity tional reforms which cannot The same process, based on arbitrarily to distinguish between success in countries (especially the United Kingdom) where await the slower Implementation smaller original units, could be Individual and individual in any the people are clearly united by common interests and a similar of the race federation plan. applied t o . the Transvaal where group, as the Progressives will the old Republican administra have us do. Any member of a Chief of these will be: to re group will be able to advance as background. citizens share in the govern- seeking to introduce tests Of the store the century-old rights of tion dispersed the Natives into s large number of “plaatsen,” be far as his innate ability will Not enough South Africans ment as individuals, and un civilisation or the "merit" of in the Coloured people in (he allow him, and he will not be dividuals. Cape and Natal, and to extend cause they would not have them have paused to think that willing to face the consequences remain or develop into largo limited because he is poor, or of that, wants us to dismember Neither of these plans is rights to those in the other because he lived at a time when these institutions are not realiy feasible or acceptable in Provinces; to give the African communities with a conmorj the United South Africa we identity. In this way the need tp education was not available to suited to multi-racial, motley, know and love. the long run to South Africans; people up to eight White re him. presentatives in Parliament; to consolidate the Bantu Areas — complicated South Africa. In Its stead he wants to create Dr. Verwoerd’s because it is not an impossible task — is obviated. Both the Nationalists under give our Indian population re Our destiny eight or nine separate, unitary just; and the others because presentation and other privi Separate residential areas are Dr. Verwoerd and the Pro states. Seven or eight of these they cannot guarantee the re leges as permanent citizens of a feature of our urban life. These gressives offer mere adapta- he Bantu states and one a tention and maintenance ' of separate urban complexes can be HAVE tried to state In the South Africa. compass of a short article Hons of the existing order - multi-racial state under whlte civilised values for all the given developing powers of self- I domination peoples In our land. This phase will also see the administration. They can then the principles of a race even though they may be introduction of a series of combine in higher authorities to federation. It will now be in His plan cannot work. It teresting to learn what reactions drastic adaptations. measures to foster the emergence control matters of peculiar in cannot define the future of of a property-owning Native will be forthcoming. The United Party, led by Sir the millions of Bantu who Three stages terest to them, and they can I expect some violent and middle class, on which much of also combine to elect their repre De Viliiers Graaff, alone points will remain, in the so-caiied White ■ ■■1 the United Party’s further plan prejudiced reaction. I hope a new, bold direction which will state and it becomes utterly con HE Uplted Party plan sentation In the federal Parlia there will be some which will ning will depend. ment. eliminate the weaknesses of our fused about the future of the avoids both these pitfalls. be Informed and responsible. present system and make pos Coloured and Indian peoples T It will be undertaken in A great opportunity awaits sible the powerful development The other alternative is offered three stages. The first two will Third phase Representation South Africans to come forward of our multi-racial state boldly, courageously and logically happen quickly; the third will and to help the United Party This new direction, derived by the Liberal Party; and timidly, be a slower process, because in building on this mighty and from past experience of govern rr^HE interesting feature of hesitantly and with hardly any the speed at which it will be E third phase will be the magnificent concept. ment in South Africa and from logic by the Progressive Party. this scheme will be the We can all co-operate to intro Implemented will depend on the Introduction and develop the wisdom of the West, has be The Liberal Party says that basis of the representation duce a system in South AJr'ca degree of civilisation and the r ment of a federation of for the various groups in the come known as the policy of as all South Africa is a unitary experience of modern govern that will mark the end of con ordered advance to a race feder-. state, the only answer is uni the races in South Africa. Its central or federal Parliament. fused groping and the beginning mental responsibility attained final detail will be determined The United Party’s object ation. versal franchise for all people by various groups of our popu of an advance, planned and who are of mature age, and not after full discussion and con will be to share our democratic orderly, towards that greatness Let us first look at the alterna lation. sultation between the Govern Institutions of government with tives before South Africa. disqualified by a criminal which can still be South Africa’s record or other generally recog But the impact ol the new ment and the various race groups all the people of South Africa, destiny. Dr. Verwoerd, unable to see nised disability. policy will be immediate and in our country. As far as pos but at the same time to preserve (■Written t>T S. .T. Stem, anything different from a dramatic; it will mark the sible it will be developed and and safeguard those institutions of 45 Ft. Fatrlnk Rons. Hovchtotw The Progressive Party tries to Johenneebtire.) unitary state in which ail modify this direct approach by end of a repressive era In implemented as a result of such for all the people. Reproduced from the Sunday Times with kind permission. Issued by O. Sherwell. 128 Jan Smuts Ave.. Johannesburg Printed by Goldfields Press (Pty.) Ltd. 36 Jules Street. Jeppe, Johannesburg prove r Fundamental í ? 0 * 1 | fallacy Sir,—The fundamental fallacy of ;i the race federation policy of the them wrong M United Party is that of separate m M 'i 'I roll representation being a good t: system of enfranchisement. It is fR. J. C. JOSLIN states inter alia ( “ Rand Daily Ma a known fact that it creates a divi- M' December 19) that the qualified franchise “ is p sion of loyalty and responsibility. We cannot- hope to build a nation the tradition of all the greal ocracies. Great Britain | of South Africans while people are and the United States had universal education I kraaled off into an African race % group, an Indian race group, a decades before the Iran s widely extended.” ' Coloured race group (in the Trans- i vaal) and a White race group. Two points suggest themsel' Under such a system who could First, slavery, witch-bur: blame any individual member of a racial and religious persecu B group if he considered himself an etc., were also at one timi s! African first and a South African another in the tradition of sj second; a Coloured first and a the great democracies. I t ; gj South African second; a White therefore, a little difficult jj first and a South African second? appreciate why Mr. Joslin’s sel What a contrast is provided by tive choice should be' adva: jj] the U.S.A. (an example which the as a justification for policies J United Party uses most unfittinglyumiumgiy South Africa today which and deceptively), where every citi- * - used elsewhere before the zen is an American first and fore- of the century. most, no matter what his country Opposed, Secondly, the impression gf -i is that the countries mention) * progressed by preconceived | orderly stages towards unive: Í' franchise. Nothing could p further from the truth, j ruling aristocratic minority 5 Britain for example, was ev> bit as opposed to extending franchise to the illiterate mass® • as is the White ruling minority ■ in South Africa to expending the i franchise to non-Whites. They fought every new concession tooth Sunday Express Chief > and nail and when, eventually Reporter I they acceded to the demand for S one-man-one-vote they did so A BITTER election campaign _ lH much against their better judg I • x some of the contests the eyes 0f south Africa ment and predicted that dire * between former allies — is and several overseasovtiisucUd cuuiiLicountries ico agig consequences would follow. His 1 about to start. will be on Johannesburg where tory has proved them wrong. Transvaal Provincial Council the Nationalists will be virtually Aistoty J by-election nominations for Park- on the sidelines. For in Johannes- I town and Johannesburg North burg the main contest is between .. .' „■ m are due on Wednesday for the the United Party and the Pro February 14 polling day. gressive Party. • Shortly after that, nominations The United Party won Park- will be made for the Transvaal town inthe general election with ' municipal elections on March 7. 85 votes. • Then there will be Provincial The Provincial Council by- election candidates here are the . (-V! gf Council by-elections for Springs, 1 Green Point and Umbilo. United Party’s Mr. Patrick Lewis ! 0 There will be a parliamentary and Mr. Harry Brigish, of the L fiS- Progressive Party. In Johannesburg North, where m |he Progressives were 872 votes - .... .: '.Vi sehind the United Party in the | ’ïX :■ eneral election,- Mr. R. N. Har vey will carry the Progressive banner against Mr, Okert van der m ■* * ■ m w ' , •, Í 'f't : - - 4 ' . .. ; * . ■ .‘.'U ! r ’f' ' - * a Hj t ; ‘V '' _ £ L " 7 Progressive'h/rksé % analyses "W U.P. Race Federation By Mrs. HELEN SUZMAN M.P. TN the past few weeks a number of different interpretations of the * United Party’s plan for Race Federation have appeared in the Press. VAGUE, she Mr. Marais Steyn, for] example, in his lengthy stated specifically that "when Hamilton Russell wends his article entitled “ The United the federal framework has been way. says-and Party’s Road to South created, the Parliamentary re One encounters other difficul Africa’s Future” (SUNDAY presentation of Natives by ties in trying to Interpret the TIMES, December 3), no Whites falls away. All races meaning of the Race Federation where makes it clear whether, will then be entitled to direct plan. For example, it is stated it lacks in fact, Africans or Indians or representation in the multi that each race will assume con Coloureds (outside .the Cape racial federal Parliament.” trol of affairs which concern It Province) will, in the distant alone. COURAGE future, be allowed to repre Is it official? Nobody tells us what these sent their own people in the affairs are. Federal Parliament. AS a United Party Con Defence, foreign affairs, pos tal services and finance will, we gress adopted this as official courage to present any definite Yet a nameless United Party H policy? It would be appre are toid, be in the hands of the spokesman in Mr. Stanley Uys’s ciated if we could get this point Central Federal Government. No proposals to the South African article on the same subject the cleared up soon, otherwise I mention Is made of those mat electorate, now, in the foresee ters that are the very essence of following week tells us that foresee many deviations from able, or even in the distant racial discrimination and the “the Reduction that members of "The Road” appearing on the future. horizon. greatest cause of racial friction, the different race groups would The chances are that Mrs. namely, Group Areas and the Any changes of real im ultimately be able to elect M P i Sannie van Niekerk’s “Road” Pass Laws. portance in the status quo are from their own groups, is in will never cross the “Path” of Mr. Marais Steyn tells us that to be decided on by a referen herent in the whole concept of Mr. Plewman; and that the such repressive measures will be Race Federation.” dum only after the U.P. Free State “Track” followed amende,d in Phase One of the comes back to power. A leading article on December by Mr. Wolfie Swart will Plan, so as to make their imple 17. went even further in its never meet; the Wynberg mentation less onerous. How it Thus the main objective of interpretation of the plan. It "Avenue.” along whie.h Mr. possible to administer in the Race Federation plan of the human laws humanely is not United Party seems to be the ^explained. one enunciated in Anthony Delius’s poem “The Last Divi Who will decide? sion” — to find “a proposition that’s vague enough to win the UT leaving that aside, one is next election.” surely entitled to have When will the United Party Bclarification regarding the control of matters that are basic learn that only a bold frontal to the living conditions of non- attack can ever succeed In Whites. ^ bers are to be elected to Jill cracking the granite wall of the ■J-0- Who will decide whether MRS. HELEN SUZMAN, seats reserved on a racial basis, Nationalist Party’s policy of Progressive Party M.P. for Africans are to be given trade they should be elected on com apartheid ? ftWunion rights, where they will Houghton. ■ M be allowed to work, where munal rolls. On closer examina Coloureds may iive^ where tion, however, we felt that may trade? the non-White have been arti such a system would be likely %? Who will decide what taxes ficially restricted by statutory to lead to a hardening of the levy and how the money and other measures. racial feeling in the Federa fpWfgUected is to be spent ? tion, and it would be liable to 0 '' Are these vital issues to be Is it the intention of the result in the election of more I ■ ■'Vi [left to the “constituent United Party to repeal all extreme elements of both com- 1 tKKBvernment agencies’1 of each measures that inhibit earning munities. ,4T racial group or to the “central power of non-Whites? "This could lead sooner or • Bfefederal government t“ later to a complete breakdown Job reservation, which the ? Mr. Marais Steyn brushes of the working of the Assem ..‘■aside the numerical dispropor United Party has promised to bly. We therefore prefer the tion of group representation in repeal, is only one such meas common roll." the Federal Parliament proposed ure. Finally, Mr. Steyn cannot J|i%*the Plan by using an analogy What is the United Party's be allowed to get away with his with the U.S.A. Senate where, intention regarding laws that attempt to ridicule the Pro-[ he reminds us, the small popu gressive Party policy of i: lation of Alaska and the huge restrict mobility of labour and dividual merit. population of New York State thus the right to sell one’s r'have equal representation. labour in the best market? Will He forgets to tell us, however, the United Party amend the Equal opportunities ; that the 2\ million Alaskan definition of "employee” in the ^«ésidents have one representa- NDER our policy, all indivi- * Industrial Conciliation Act so as ■ . Wkí^- while the 162 million people duals, irrespective of colour,! :7\ ’Vy'iho live in New York State to make it possible for Africans Uwho have already, acquired I; «SÍPP^PÏave 43 representatives in the to join Trade Unions of killed the necessary qualifications, will I U.S. House of Representatives, workers ? share the responsibilities of ad which has the sole power to ministering the multi-racial |-? Will the United Party remove koriginate legislation to raise state that is South Africa. .^Federal revenues and make the colour bar in the lines? But more important, all in A ppropriations from Central dividuals, irrespective of ^ Government funds. colour, will be given equal [}'/ ’ Proved failure opportunities to attain those qualifications. Restrictive laws OULD Mr. Steyn, or any Thus Mr. Steyn’s criticism other spokesman of the that the Progressive Party rOULD Mr. Steyn tell us W United Party, care 'to policy limits a man “because he more about the unique tells us why a federal system is poor or because he lived at a * proposal that the numeri- of group representation has time when education was not j .xal representation of the differ- become the Mecca of racial available to him” is about as i^pnt racial groups in the Federal peace to a party that for eight valid as bemoaning the fact Parliament Should be related to years doggedly fought the re that his grandfather did not PJjlie contribution made to the moval of the Cape Coloured enjoy jet travel. national income by each group? voters from the common roll in United Party supporters are ®ÍI defy any economist to make the Cape, on the very grounds that group representation ac constantly telling us that the an even remotely accurate as qualified franchise proposals of sessment of the contribution of centuated racial friction and the Progressive Party are not had proved a failure in other H llicial groups to the national acceptable to the non-Whites. 1 income in this country which parts of the world? Do they seriously believe that1 has practised the highest degree Even assuming that the restricting the extension of of economic integration for United Party plan envisages rights of an individual to the jpáecades, and where, in any case, the true concept of geo pace of the development of the $he productivity and earnings of graphical federation, which it group to which the individual does not, what evidence is belongs will be more accept-. there that group representa able ? ’ tion will be less harmful in Will Professor Matthews, for a federal as against a unitary example, be prepared to wait system ? until the entire Xhosa group Indeed, on the contrary, the has become “civilised” before en Monckton Commission, which joying the right to sit in Par was entrusted with the task of liament ? making recommendations for the Constitution of the Rho desian Federation, stated: Lacks courage "We have given considerable thought to the question of how ERHAPS the worst feature members of the Assembly about the Race Federation should be elected. At first sight, P plan of the United Party it seemed logical that, if mem is that it does not have the * 4 / 0 - United Party’s race j federation plan is Z impracticable ■ j To the Editor of The Star have heard much recently of the United Party’s L i oft-proclaimed plan for a race federation. This scheme, I | we are assured, will provide the constitutional framework fork the solution of our racial problem*. Mi\ ° , van der Merwe, United Mr. Patrick Lewis. United I On closer examination, however, the plan is revealed^ Party candidate for Johannes- Party candidate for Parktown. - '' . S 75. d i m a* 8 • ty contrivance, devised undoubtedly to meet certain , •.. burg North. ■ pressing political needs hut possessing the following grave SH | (if not fatal) defects. ------____ i. • The scheme provides for7( Nominations in \ communal representation in the j central Parliament. The leader j j ! of the United Party. Sir de Villiers i Graaff. has said that communal I Éj representation must be rejected : by-elections\ B for the Coloured people as tending L' to perpetuate group thinking. If ■ this be true for Coloureds in the H Cape, why not for Coloureds due tomorrow H elsewhere or for Africans and THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1962, ■ Indians throughout the country? "\TOMli\A riO.N COURTS sit tomorrow lor four Transvaal I • What is worse, we are assured I] fhe White representatives will POLITICAL ^ ’ Provincial Council constituencies in which there are Í ■ retain a permanent majority in vacancies. The seats are Johannesburg North, Parktown. B K the central Parliament. Springs and Nigel. Can this proposal be regarded PROSPECT Johannesburg North and Park for the Provincial Council is Mr. É A as anything but one more device 's town, marginal United Party seats, T. Meter, chairman of Springs igj jH f°r maintaining White supremacy, OT surprisingly the sea •j will be contested by the Progres- Town Council’s management com- H P a little more subtle perhaps than sonal political truce has g sive Party mittee. N ended earlier this year. If; The United Party’s candidates Bj ,hose at present employed but I are Mr. Ockert van der Merwe Mr. L. B. Taurog, its former ’’ r) retaining the essential feature of I In some respects it was not a ■ '/ and Mr. Patrick ■ Lewis. M.P.C., was unopposed in the last I H a permanent White political truce at all. Faced with election. ■ majority. Mr. Richard Harvey and Mr. important provincial by-elec- | • If the scheme is to be taken • C H. Brigish will stand for the UNOPPOSED tions next month and equally | Progressives. B laterally, it seems to incorporate interesting municipal elections T Nigel is a safe Nationalist Party ■ H elements of the Nationalist in- ’ the month after, party workers I m MAJORITIES seat. The Minister of Justice, Mr. ■ vention, the “ State within a Vorster, was unopposed in the B 5 State.” have, scarcely paused in their i Mr. Harvey opposed Mr. Alec labours. Newspaper correspon- f* - Gorshel, M.P., in the Hospital general election. parliamentary by-election last Mr. J. H. Visagie, a Nigel town® ■ Own affairs dence columns have continued b t year. councillor, will be nominated for fl to reflect an unusually high [ the Nationalist Party tomorrow. It I Mr. Brigish lost to the Coloureds are to manage aspects i level of political interest f ' Nationalist Party in Pretoria East is not known whether he' will be H opposed. ■ of Coloured affairs. Africans of! among the general public. in last year’s general election. B African affairs and Indians of ’ The r e a s o n_s are clear ( In the general election,- the The only surprise likely tomorrow f l ■ Indian affairs. But nobody hast enough. Critical debates con- I M.P.C.’s for Parktown and Johan- is a Progressive nominatioh at I ■ yet explained how this scheme i ceming South Africa in the | nesburg North, Mr. S. Emdin and Springs—or by the Nationalists. I It is not known whether the I K could function within the coniines ! United Nations General i j Mrs. Molly Weiss, were elected ■ of a single territorial unit. with majorities of 85 and 872 over Liberal Party will contest either I Assembly continued well into i the Progressives. Johannesburg seats. Indeed, when one considers that I December and decisions affect- g Springs is a safe United Party Bolling day is February 14 ■ the really vital aspect of each | ing South West Africa were § seat, and the party’s nomination t «New-by: J « .d É M é h j ■ group s affairs is its relationship i taken that threaten to produce IP Street, Johannesburg.) ■ with the other groups, the im-1 B Practicability of the “ State within | an ugly and difficult situation | H fire State ” becomes even more f for us before much of this year !! St self-evident. If the race federation I has passed. Indeed the shadow 1 ■ plan does not envisage “ States i of world opinion has grown so H within the State ” would its I dark that a real sense of i ■ authors explain this aspect more á danger has settled on the | ■ explicitly? country stirring even habit- 1 g The United Party's race fede- * ually uninterested people out I B ration should be contrasted with of their lethargy. §5 the rational political structure jm proposed by the Progressive This new awareness of inter- | j* Party, which provides for a non- national forces, combined with p racial franchise based on merit, the results of the October | I coupled with the protection of general election, is having a % £ the rights of individuals and of marked effect on our politics. J | groups through a territorial Urged on, no doubt, by Mr. ? I federation and a rigid constitution Eric Louw who returned to | & incorporating a speciallv consti South Africa a shaken man, i tuted Senate and a Bill of Rights. the National Party is bracing i itself up for a major attempt f to accelerate its .Bantustan policy. This will entail firm | commitments about granting I independence to at least one of " the territories and will also g involve substantial spending. The United Party, alarmed p at its heavy loss of support to. i the Progressives, is busily § trying to make its race fêde- & ration policy look liberal 1 enough to staunch the flow of 1 departing members. There has I been some carefully contrived 1 I publicity for the policy in one ; | of tile lew newspapers Thai | still unreservedly support the 1 sSf£, ■- ï H : LmiteiT Party, but the policy | ■ B has yet to encounter the full | blast of criticism that is being | prepared for it. There will not * be much of it left after the m k Sgf. next couple of months. The Progressives are getting ready to put the Parktown and Johannesburg provin- n cial seats int| irty bag and also to further influx of supji the poli- tical Centre disinte- ISIS grates under ÍTressure of events. All in r ■ ’ ** ' •>,*■ 'it-, • ’I BP* rogs. NAILS A CANARD political beatniks Vote-catching tactics “of the worst type SUNDAY TIMES REPORTER DROGRESSIVE PARTY tactics in the Provincial Council elections * were described by Mr. Henry Tucker, leader of the United Party in the Transvaal, yesterday as the methods of “ political beatniks . . . tactics of the worst type.” usual to carry on the fight M He was referring specifi- against the Nationalists.” /. cally to: Mr. Patrick Lewis supported Mr. Tucker’s views. He said: jg,ySum A3— • The claim by Dr. Bernard "While the Progressives talk about what they propose to do, MR. PATRICK LEWIS f ë T ' X f i V ' ' H Friedman, Progressive leader it remains a simple, shining fact H in the Transvaal, that the that in Johannesburg, where the set, in the face of Government ■ last-minute nomination of a City Council is a ‘little Govern legislation, in Johannesburg.” ■ Nationalist candidate in ment’ run by the United Party, M*\ Jan der Merwe described g MRS. MARY CADMAN calls on MR. OCKERT VAN DER MERWE to congratulate him on hisTi we have tremendous achieve as ridiculous and typical” the = nomination as United Party candidate for Johannesburg North in the Provincial Council' 1 » Springs had placed the United ments to our credit. efforts of the Progressive Party g| elections and to pledge him her support. Mrs. Cadman is one of the best-known United Party! K Party “ on the horns of a canvassers to create the impres- = workers in the northern areas. In an attempt to catch votes, the Progressives have spreadtl I; dilemma; ” sion in the northern city areas m the "man "Iras ( H - o l * . k a -- -- n_------u i 38,000 HOMES that Mrs. Mary Cadman, one of • Strenuous Progressive “ Since 1955, more than 38,000 the best-known United Party t$jj* H Party efforts to create the houses have been built for Afri workers, had given her support R impression that Mrs. Mary cans in the townships — and to the Progressive Party. WL Cadman, one of the most houses are still going up at a “Mrs. Cadman ceased to be so active merely because she fb -l. V active United Party workers steady rate of 20 a day. “Three stadiums, each holding needed a rest. Her loyalty, and w in the northern areas, had 13,000 spectators, and 79 playing her active support, are still *|: thrown her support behind fields have been provided for entirely with the United ' the Progressives. their recreation; 42 schools built, Party.” with another 25 under construc Mrs. Cadman confirmed this tion. when I spoke to her. NONSENSE’ “And this great feat has “The United Party’s race fede been possible because it was ration policy is the one safe and Mr. Tucker said he had seldom done by the United Party. It sane answer to South Africa’s heard such “ arrant nonsense” as is the policy of the United race problem. And for that policy Dr. Friedman’s statement that the Party to train African artisans I shall continue to work,” she United Party was faced with “ the to do the job—lifting them *# E|jid .. | tactical problem of reconciling a the process from the states! j liberal approach in Johannesburg’s of unskilled labourehftc. [two northern constituencies with skilled tradesmen. ;|a conservative- approach at 'J Springs." .* “These are only some things which the United Parts The United Party’s policy of done for the non-White ? race federation had the . unani- of the city, improving th [ mous support of the last U.P. under the Nationalist Goveed-. [Congress, where the bverwhelm- ment’s race laws while t h j pro-' [ing majority of delegates were gressives have talked and [from the platteland, he said. Nationalists have resisted. LIKE RABBITS’’ ONE VOICE "The simple and straightfor Mr. Ockert van der Merwe,'.UJ?; ward policy formulated there, candidate for Johannesburg NorSM and widely publicised since, is the said: “ In the city, where th? City policy put forward by Mr. Council’s , achievements give| the Patrick Lewis, candidate for direct lie''toto the Progressives’Progress!: lame Parktown, Mr. Ockert van der legend that it is a councilco of Merwe, the Johannesburg North ‘yes-men,’’ and in the platteland,pi nominee, by Mr. A. Meter — who the United Party speaks 1with one was opposed by a Nationalist in voice — the voice which will yet Springs — and by every United have the last word. Party man everywhere.” “If jMr, Lewis and I are elected, Mr. Tucker added: “ It is we will strengthen in the Provin- gnificant that the Progres cial fcouncil the United Party’s ses, who were, to have .ptli derated for sanity and ju: for in this r v - JrZ ■ Political notes from practically all over IT---i THE political season i8 Parting 'again, so we pro^de over rCgU 8CrV1Ce ° f I>olitical social notes f J S the ^ c f that The Pg PeoP,e’s hacks up, we learn, is M t ; theiruieir.... eveseves. ”* — V *People íon h . can ^ are, putinn tr>lng up with «° thatP«U the wool over really them down is - -r* the fact that the wool is 50 per cent, cotton. Evidence .Talking of the Progs, there’s the story going the rounds that Dr. Bernard Friedman was called upon to give evidence as' a wit ness jn a motor accident case. In the box, in reply to a question, Dr. Friedman described himself as “the greatest politician since William Pitt.” “Modest, aren’t you,” said the judge...... '5*%*.. “Ordinarily, yes,” replied Dr. BEINiG G S O ^ M g D Friedman, "but please remember t-E A oets-s ; ... that I am under oath.” faire, finesse and Evening star versation. At a concert and social evening Invited the other day to given by a well-known political at the Prime Minister’s reside®* Party the other day, we learn we'learn from authoritative seihi-’ from unusually reliable sources, circles, he noticed a jar of honey a young woman singer was to be on the table. the star of the evening. Unaffectedly, and with aplomb,k * Inquiring how the evening had savoir faire and finesse, " gone off, Dr. Jan Steytler said: young man remarked: “Ah, And how was the girl singer’ ” Prime Minister, I see you ke Terrific,” said Dr. Zac de bee.” rM g J Beer. “ She got such an uproar Note well! ious ovation when she sang ‘Ave Maria’ that she encored with We cannot, of course, trace the m m m Ave another Maria’.” following incident to its soul and we are therefore unable' Tor a reason we cannot explain specify just who was involved. all this reminds us of a witty re- It was a political meeting, and the speaker concluded an intem ... ; ; - i' perate speech with a cry of “Are “What a filthy picture,” you going to take all,this lying said the Film Censor. “Let’s down?” run it through once again “Not on your life,” cam*» a before we ban it.” voice from the rear. “We’ve got ’ ’?• : * lortahand i*T“ - ‘ , '■ V * . mar* Dy Oscar Wildebeest when he addressed a banquet givenby the Society of Estate Agents and I Sworn Appraisers. „ ‘‘®peakmg of Lucy,” said Oscar m Wildebeest, “she used to go with the landlord, but now she goes with the lease.” Only right? Although the- Johannesburg w m '■ City Council shared With the Railways the cost' of building the Johann Rissik bridge,- the’ -Rail- i ways refuse to allow the name of ■ “ J®, then Mayor, Mr. • Hymie ■ Miller, to be placed on a plaque : - ...,«i.. on the bridge. i-’l .;••• ; ' , -Vi; Perhaps the Railways feel it I is only right that the name to go 9 on the plaque, instead, should be Í that of Mr. Japie Basson. Out of a bonnet .. The teenage voter oiS a well- 9 known political, party’s Youth | Movement, who is regarded as 1 politically bright, h? being 1 groomed for leadership in the 1 years to come. § A trifle_ roug.h rpun i W£: :ratto n - ~ ï feV Intrenches danger etter pay foi fricons — i group conflict 'HEN «t the beginning that for the foreseeable future it as his considered opinion that more work three-quarters of the popula the Indian and African groups of Oecemher the rare tion of South Africa would be would one day be allowed to '•**! i edeéation plan of the represented, by eleven Whites elect their own people and that m ■■ in a Parliament of IS’! mem van ited Party was splashed bers. there would ultimately be a multi-racial Parliament. from them i9o front-page headline* in a Certain basic principles were The third stage in race, ‘Sunday newspaper a n d stated which branded the policy federation, which is the novelty as oppressive and raciallstic, bf the scheme published by Mr. INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT heralded a* a dramatic plan and which proved that the ap Marais Steyn, must conse proach of the United Party was AUSE Africans are barred from qualifying In solve nur rare problem», quently have been known by the same as that of. the National then. ^killed jobs in industry, the increase in their prod the impression in the mind* Party. These principles; which The reason why the U.P. did which we hear so much about when higher wa irf ^mtwt people wan that H not at that'stage speak about entioned, depends largely on management, t*a« something new. The it. should be clear to everybody who knows the past history of productivity can bp in-p— ■ - Inited Party ha« long sinee By P. V. that party. It had made a pact within the limitations of shall only have Ur replace ■ earned the reputation of with the National Union in the ["industrial taboos is being therefore my preductivity hope of winning over dissatis in many factories, increased 25 per cent. This being an ardent political fied Nationalists, and the pub is the success story of a been in five months. prospector, ever hopeful of Pistorim lication of the third phase of tan effort to increase pro 0 0 0 the race federation plan would bity. have given the appearance of Another thing I did. I said , striking the elusive reef of f managing director who tells them “What’s the use of „ public opinion, and always anti-Nationalist tendencies. But ory here, says he has in- sitting here and just making thi have been reiterated in the re the fact is that the plan already fed productivity by 35 per bricks. Let’s get on the truck (ready to change its policies cent statements of Mr, Marais existed, and U.P. spokesmen in five months and has in- go and see.” and methods to comply with Steyn, are the following: who today claim that it is not ed wages by 56 per cent, in new, are no doubt right. I took them to sites where • White domination must he fears. (As is generally t.he what it believes i* popular Juris has involved some reduc- units were being used and maintained. saw the value of care in man1 demand, and so it has • No matter what standards ENTICE JL in the concern’s working P*.) faeture. They saw how the u have been reached by «n in were being used. This made caused no surprise that industrialist does not want dividual, that individual can The plan to entice dissatis tremendous impression. A— after its poor showing at the share in privileges only In the fied Nationalists has failed Iname mentioned nor the pfacture in whicbv he is general election it was once measure in which his colour and there, ore several by- Voluntary group has developed. elections pending wt which the jed, so his product is" referred “units." Voluntarily these fellows ha • more trying something new'. • It was wrongly assumed aim will this time be to entice worked two hours’ overtime Sfj'iA comparison of the. new that all South Africans, what Progressives And not Nation The story their whole staff to finish Statement of policy by Mr. ever their race or colour, would alists. Consequently the third, phase, which had to be kept re is his story: job. I haven’t asked them to, ... "i 'Marais Steyn with previous remain loyal to their own group they haven't even claimed for ^Statements by Sir De Villiers only, and the United Party quiet, before, is now displayed our Industry we have been for the benefit of Parktoum, Ung for a. wage determination •Just two weeks ago the he ^^Hgaff throws extremely in policy not only accepted this bov addressed me. He i' terestjng light on this subject. wrong assumption, hut en Johannesburg North and r l realised that it was no good O-reen. Point. By saying that " jig for the wage determina “Morena, we want, to tell you I Tbs fact comes to light that the trenched it in its policy. happy we are that you are doil In the words of Sir De there will one day be a multi nt» tell me that I must increase ijg ciglnal statements were made racial Parliament, the im this for us.” He said “We jjri such a way that by merely Villiers Grasff: pression must * tie given that I started myself a system of no longer children. We are ... ^«hanging the emphasis, the “No matter what standard of the U.P. has moved away sing wages and in two years being taught like grown up ma B<ïolicy could be made to look education or so-called civilisa from the Nationalists. |ve increased our wages by 56.9 We will see that everybody dd 'Either conservative or liberal, tion they have acquired, an 'pent. their job." depending on the nature of But it is no more than an African nationalist remains an Impression and a display. Ths our industry African wages Our absenteeism is nil—it’s popular demand at the moment, nil. African nationalist, and his first third phase Itself has no prac jj represent, 28.3 per cent, of produc- loyalties tend to remain his tical significance whatsoever. HflNr costs, not like the Graham Some of our boss boys, aba- .loyalties to his own race, tribe When the need arises and the which talks about 7} per four of them, are getting RiooJ UNCHANGED or group. Because of this we month. U.P. feels that it should again I realised that we would tend in determining the mea to do something to increase There are others on R90 ■Ktl The policy itself remain* sure of participation in Govern give the appearance -of mowing j unchanged, and except for a towards the Nationalists,^fit ^productivity of our Africans, month and mainly they are ment to look rather to the we had tried out works R55 a month. » » ,/ew minor points, it is today standards achieved by racial need only point to eertatn ad what it tens before, the elec- mitted aspects of the third ittees. Of course, under the Don’t forget, we compound thq groups end not just to those and feed them as well. You pons, a White "haasekap” phase to prove that It is nothing prnment regulations, you can’t attained- hv individuals.” wages to these fellows or add on another R20 a month ’■policy based on the colour (Speech on 16.3.61, Cape Town. more IhMt a vague vision, as regroup, trhose individual merit ■_-iing like that. each of them for housing “ Weekblad,” 17.3.61.) little likely to be implemented iHjtried works committees first and food. glgySis completely ignored, and as the Nationalist vision of .. people are herded together in ____ that you got nowhere with But it pays dividends. It real sovereign B&ntustan states, each Jtftem They sat and they iust. does pay dividends. iff-colour groups and dealt, with LOYALTY with an embassy in Pretoria. - r;individually as that specific • talked to you; they said “yes” to Kcoiowr group is dealt with. What, are those aspects of the j l j p t you said, and you never got g Although in his opening third phase that prove its In i suggestions from them. p i t i* still what it waa in speech to the United Party con -relation to Nationalist policy tended futility? Ultimate gress in August, Sir De Villiers power, Mr Marais Steyns says, Training s Iso. In its aims it agrees with Graaff did not go into the same will remain in the hands of the the Nationalists, namely White Bó I had to find some other measure of detail, he clearly White group, and that will be n o d of putting over to these domination for the foreseeable still subscribed '.to those prin done hy the simple expedient »ps the implications of costs. ^future. It differs merely in ciples -which his party shares of saying that groups need not ||ðod, and even in method it Te’ve got about 16 boss boys, with the .National Party. He be represented according to their cided I must send them to has on certain points of prin said, for example, that the numerical strength. He justi »1. ciple come nearer to the Coloureds had stood by the fies that hy saying that in the IT. undertook the training of Nationalists than it was before. Whites, that they should get U.S.A. Alaska has as many boss boys myself, i,‘. I have reached this conclu back their former political senators as New York, forget meet them every Monday S sion by comparing the pre rights and be freed from job ting that in that case only ths Imorning for an hour and a half, j election statements of Sir De reservation and the sharper Senate is affected and that in l l have the foremen of depart- .J Villiers Graaff with the recent edges of the Group Areas Act. the U.S.A. the principle ia Iments, the -White- men. present | -4gjpP statements of Mr. Marais Steyn. His view of South Africa was equal representation of state* las well, because they also have s On March 3, 1961, the U.P. still that of a country where and not unequal representation I to learn to teach the Bantu and h newspaper, “Weekblad,” re group loyalty should take, pre of racial groups. He forget* I in addition- to change their'I ported a speech of Sir De .Vil- cedence over all else, where the. that his own race federation i* | attitude. racial and not geographic, while 1 l|ers Graaff at a reception given Coloureds should be on the side by the United Party Parliamen the. Alaskan example is geo- , Object lesson of the Whites in this ganging graphic and not racial. tary Wives’ Club. In that up of groups against one an The first thing I did was to | speech he faithfully followed other. I get three classes of our units. A ’ the Nationalist pattern of deal But there was a strange omis MERIT J first grade, second grade and ing separately with each racial sion in that speech of the party I reject. I took three cents and putt group in a graded system of leader as well as in the final Mr. Marais Steyn furtheF 1 two of the cents on a unit. rights and privileges. The White pre-election speech which he says that they will not, like the I said “It- costs me two cents to LÍ ijroup was to retain Its domi held at Mowbray on October 3. Progressives, arbitrarily distin I make these units. If I can sell 21 nant position, and White leader Nothing was said of the now so guish between Individuals in the I them as first- grade I can sell, I ship was to be the basis of any well-known third and final stage same group. What he means, bt I them for three cents, therefore rights given to other groups. of race federation. It is true course, is that whether an in- ] lhave made a oent which I can I that in his Congress speech he dividual is educated and civilise ■put in the bank and later on it; j mentioned three stages in the or not, the colour of his skin I will enable me to. pay, you m orep I FRANCHISE race federation plan, but those will decide his fate, and power |wages. stages dealt with the Coloureds, will remain in the hands of all “If this unit is second grade I : j fel Race federation waa casually the Indians anfl the Africans individuals whose skins are I only get my two cents back and 1 mentioned in the speech, but no respectively, and the final pic White. II can’t see any sense in paying " i mention at all was made of its ture was a qualified common By refusing to distinguish I two cents and getting two cents) : third stage. The final end, as roll franchise for Cape and Iback. Now when this unit is a re -, j far as that statement of policy between individuals of the Natal Coloured males, eight same skin colour, he does dis Iject. I have paid two cents but Iffl was concerned, was full and un White representatives for Afri tinguish arbitrarily between I get only one cent, back.” qualified franchise for the. cans and three for Indians. people of worth and merit, on This cracked right into them— j j Whites, a qualified male fran- Nothing was said of a multi the basis of their colour group, I but right into them. :. chise on the common roll for racial Parliament. and by making that the deci*0:, They learn the Coloureds in the Cape and Nevertheless there is proof cive factor, his party takes its Natal, but not in the other pro that the, plan existed in very stand with the National Party, Everyone of our Africans knows f vinces. three White representa much the same form as now where race is glorified and |today that we get three cents for! tives for the Indians and eight published by Mr. Marais Steyn. merit ignored. first grade unit. White representatives for the In the “Rand Daily Mail” of I showed them why the unit Africans. In a next article I shall indi August 19, Dr. Silk, one of the cate that far from solving our ] |was first grade, why it was second! jst The Coloureds In the Trans- “ back room boys” of the U.P. problems, the U.P. plan will en grade and why it was a reject. First - vasl and the Orange Free State race federation plan, explained courage group conflict and- 1 I there was chipping, then marking’ s ere to have no political repre- that, the U.P. had decided not to hasten the ruin to which policisisj land thirdly cracking. ji;: Mentation at a!!. incorporate details In its official based on race domination are f Now you should see the boss: The result would have been policy at that stage, but he gave leading us. I boys watching for chipping or! |marking during manufacture. Ifi j they find workers not handling the |units properly there's big trouble. (The managing director then I told me how he had driven similar I lessons home about such waste as Ispilling and damaging coal, leav- ling lights on, leaving taps running, I not keeping tyres at the requisite I pressure, neglecting to oil machi- Inery. He drove it home that pre- rventing waste would mean higher | wages.) Our production before was about [115,000 units a day and produc tion this month will be about 1134,000 a day. But I am not | having to replace 100 boys, I Pistorius hack for the Progressives POLITICAL REPORTER A CROW D of about 6 0 0 in Johannesburg last night heard Professor P. V. Pistorius describe the United Party’s race federation plan as “ a dramatic | call to national suicide.’ v He was speaking at the first $ ■ . meeting of the Progressive Party’s kindred policy of the Nationalists ■ -. J campaign for the Provincial by- — a bitter race conflict. t -? • j elections in Parktown. and Johan- The so-called “third phase” of ]nesburg North on February 14. the race federation plan meant j The meeting was a joint one that 11 non-Whites would be sit J for the Progressive candidates, ting with 156 Whites in Parlia -j Mr. Harry Brigish (Parktown) ment — “and Mr. Marais Steyn i and Mr. Richard Harvey (Johan- assures us that even that will nesburg North). come, when the Whites think the Professor Pistorius, who was time is ripe. frequently applauded/ deg.lt wittily J with a handful of United Party ; hecklers. ONLY HOPE The Progressives believed the only hope for South Africa lay REJECTED in depriving the group of its ■ Professor Pistorius, a member political importance so that indi of the executive of the party, said viduals, whatever their colour, Ithat Mr. Marais Steyn (a leading might know that their dignity |j United Party member) had called would depend on their merit and race federation a “dramatic efforts, and' so learn to forget Mr. Max Borkum, chairman of tfc •1 plan” to solve South Africa’s group loyalty and to be loyal to Progressive meeting in Johal I problems. South Africa. nesburg last night, held up tit But race federation was based The road of the Nationalists and photograph showing Mrs. Mar., on dangerous “group thinking. United Party was group conflict Cadman shaking hands with Dr The Progressives totally rejected and “baaskap” with no constitu Bernard Friedman, Transv® all policies based on colour and tional safeguard except "the vain leader of the Progressive Part; racial group. hope that the Whites will be able Mr. Borkum said he had at flr, “Group thinking has long been to maintain themselves, if need the curse of our country and has be by force.” been hesitant about broachin brought us to the dangerous posi Mr. Harry Brigish called for a the subject of Mrs. Cadman. since Mr. Henry Tucker _ tion in which we find ourselves new education policy that would paw a .. today — threatened from without be free of indoctrination. He said called the Progressives “politics and torn from within.”* there were certain ominous simi beatniks,” and a report If" larities between the Nationalist photograph in a Sunday nev paper had given the impres íétorms áïtacJ líS . DIVIDED and Nazi education systems. Mr. R. N. Harvey ascribed the that Mrs. Cadman had n Group unity meant national thought of leaving the Ur. __J division, and “that is why we have unsatisfactory living standards of South Africans to the failure to Party for the Progressives - . ; not become a nation.” was necessary to reply. p “group rule” I , “We are merely a number of use efficiently the potential skills of the population, Black and “Mrs. Cadman. until a year ash™ hostile groups, ganged up against White. United Party worker, came J | P R O L P THINKING and government by groups were the . - one another. Afrikaner unity, News by R. E. Heard, 174 Main offer us her services a I . el?enues that “ must inevitably destroy us,” Prof. P*W - ' White unity, Black unity, Indian street, Johannesburg. months ago. This picture Pistorius told a meeting f i unity — those are our enemiesT ol more than 600 people in Gree • FOOTNOTE: A pene taken then. ■ side, Johannesburg, last nigl:'■gbt. The United Party had aligned trating analysis of the United “It appears that she has (Johann______es burg_ N orth). : itself . with the Nationalists by Party’s race federation plan by He was the main speaker at a >> - basing its race federation plan on decided to stay with the I joint meeting held for the Pro- The by-elections will be held^OÍH Professor Pistorius appears on Party.” I the group. Page 8 today. ■ gressive Party's two Provincial February 14 A second and third article ^ ■ C o u n c il candidates in Johannes- Speaking______„ _as „a "South „ ulu African,1______i burg—Mr Harry Brigish (Park-| mid not a member of the Progres- ALL AK m BItown) .and Mr. R. N. Hary# Isive Party,” Professor Pistorius -j».-, appealed for a change of heart ' j: •“ Group loyalty, which hasíbëen SOUTH is our curse, is elevateSnfi United Party to be the |i«f government.” . AFRICANl •.-A*- Unless _ there was a dra»mtk: Íchange in the attitude of Whites, HE 5.4 F.1 “ we will perish.” Political Reporter Mr. Harry Brigish called J>ROFESSOR P. v. PISTGftj* j different approach to the employ-' I said at a Progressive, pai jj men| of married women teachers. public meeting in Johannesbu ‘ He Said the average teaching life last night: “Our party knostó ' J m AI woman was limited to three' Englishman or Afrikaner or |or four years can or Coloured or Indian Mr Harvey said South ■ know only South African^ a multiracial country Professor Pistorius, a fl Jpecessary to live togej of the National Executiye'., | peace or perish. Progressive Party,' was sp The world rejected disi at the first meeting in the. I tion i no less vigorously thu nesburg Provincial by iMCjed slavery 100 years ag campaign. y G - de Brito. 41 Prcsid He said: "W e have J Joo?inntsburg.) accused by Mr. Marais (Rand Leader of the Party) and the ’Sunday , pProgressiv of being a party where AfriS have no place. Si meeting AFRIKANERS . Three members of the “Coming from a party , | sive .Party will speak to a , has consistently been losing 5 of Coloured people at Cori kaner support since 1944- j villeltonight. accusation hardly merits , 1 They are Mr. Dick answer. jjfoMUdate for Johannesbur Professor Pistorius said 5 there | Mr. Harry Brigish, candii were many Afrikaners ih ' the Í Parktown: and Mrs. membership and leadership ipf the m g h e ll, a Johannesbu Progressive Party. |illor. “I am an Afrikaner — jjp are ng for Coloureds.will be the part Dr. Jan Steytler, Prof. Sakkies Fourie, Dr. Zac de Beer and billers in the party.” News by R. E. Heard, Street, Johannesburg. estructive force of PACK PROG colour nationalism MEETING II evaluating the race fede- attained by the various group by another. Apart iron groups of our population.” that, it has shorn the group of S| ration plan of the United On what basis will that be all its political and economical importance. The political and '1 rty one is faced ■with the decided? We must remember that it will have to be decided economic status of the indiSwi TO WNSHIP ••Ol. . Ificulty that the main ex by a completely White Parlia vidua! must depend on himself ment with a small minority alone. 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