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t \ Population figures show apartheid has failed Black■ increase B ^ U o á cv^ l l r p f S S' V & 4 - will worry Nats. SUNDAY TIMES REPORTER ;^pHE gigantic problems facing South Africa in the implementation of the Nationalist Government’s apartheid policy are glaringly revealed in the latest official population figures, the SUNDAY TIMES was told yesterday by authorities in many different fields. They said the population" Patrick Lewis, chairman of the from ai ani cwiionuueconomic pumtpoint ofor view. figures showed conclusively Non-European Affairs Committee Young people in great num of the Johannesburg City Council. that South Africa was a multU bers were leaving the farms to . He said: “Although influx seek better opportunities in the racial country, that trying to control and repatriation of towns. separate the races was an foreign Africans is being The' drift had been accelerated impossible task and that, so carried out rigorously, Johan by recurring bad seasons. far, all efforts to do so had nesburg's African population Professor Wagner bald many increased in nine years by 32.3 of those leaving the rural failed. per cent. The figures show that from areas to seek work In the 1951 to 1960 the Native urban “Already the Johannesburg towns did not have the educa Council has extended African tion and training to equip them population increased by over one housing to cover all the available million, or 45 per cent. to compete in an industrl ground reasonably close to Johan society. Authorities also pointed out nesburg. that the drift of Whites from the This could lead to severe “The further housing develop emotional and mental problems. platteland to the towns was ments are already 16 miles outside creating its own problems. During the city. Further extensions are the years under survey, the num Voting balance impracticable — yet this is the ber of Whites on the platteland only area in which we may build. decreased by 26,377 or 8.6 per Major J. D. Opperman, organ cent. ising secretary of the United 2AM)0^a_V£aT Party in the Transvaal, said: “It is quite clear that the voting Overwhelming problems “Even now we are short of power has shifted from the plat adequate housing accommodation An indication of the over teland to the urban areas. — and about 2,000 houses a year “If the United Party had been whelming problems facing local must be built to accommodate authorities working within the allowed to continue its immigra- those families already in the "units of the Government’s apart- area.’’ “tion policies...... in 1948... there would y r j not have been such an alarming Mr. Lewis said the Railways discrepancy between the in v * ould have difficulty in provid- creases of Blacks and Whites.” ig additional transport. Trains from the south-western areas FOOTNOTE: The only person were already over-loaded. I spoke to who was completely happy about the figures in the The problem also has other report was Dr. H. J. van Eck, implications. the financier and economist. One of South A frica’s leading But then he has had time to sociologists, Professor O. J. M. get used to them. He told me Wagner, head of the Department he was far ahead of these of Sociology at the University of figures and while the report the Witwatersrand, said the in quoted the total population $ > flux of Natives to the towns, in of South Africa as 16 million* the context of the Government’s he was already working with apartheid policy, could lead to a total of 17 million —, which increased racial tensions. has now been Toached. He said the number of Natives Integration in the urban areas merely lent weight to the ideal of providing “The one thing that these employment for them in their latest figures reveal is that, own areas. whether the politicians want it South Africa’s population or not, we are moving more and showed the following increase - more into the area of integra from May, 1951, to September, tion.” 1960: Mr. J. W. Higgerty, United 1951 1960 Party M.P. for Von Brandis, said Whites: 2,641,689 3,088,492 the figures showed decisively Coloureds: 1.103,016 1,509,258 that South Africa was a multi Asiatics: 366 664 477,125 racial country. Natives: 8,560,083 10,927,922 “The picture presented in this Total: 12,671,452 16,002,797 report gives the complete lie to apartheid policy. • “It shows that economic laws are operating despite and in opposition to the Govern ment’s policy of separate development.” Mr. Higgerty said the drift of Whites from the platteland created an imhalapce between " towns and country and. was bad -—J IMPORTED WICKER BASKET BAGS SANDALS * " R2.99 The Sunday Tribune R3.99 SCOTTS 356 WEST ST. Family Magazine 354 C f * n T T C NEXT TO NOVEMBER 3, 1963 WEST ST. 3 V W ■ ■ 0 WOOLWORTHS THEY FOUGHT THE ATLANTIC
In man’s efforts to conquer the oceans This new series presents the dramas of of the world, the Atlantic has always the men and women who fought the been the main enemy. It has the greatest Atlantic — the travellers who by their concentration of sea and air routes; and courage and sometimes by their errors it has exacted heavy toll from those who helped to turn an Atlantic crossing from underrate its perils. a trip of peril into a luxurious routine. Doomed-with 69 aboard ^ HE WAS THE BIGGEST PLANE ON THE ATLANTIC AIR ROUTES. She was carrying more passengers than had sr set out before on an Atlantic crossing. She was 5,000lb. overloaded—the equivalent of 25 people, plus their luggage. Her flight plan was the tin. But the figures on which most fallacious, illogical his assumptions were based document ever concocted by were false. an airline. She had no chance The throttle and boost set whatever of reaching the tings recommended to him would in fact give an endurance other side. not of 22 hours but of \1\. A SHORT but perilous journey: A . boat from the cutter Bibb brings back survivors This was the American That cut the safety margin to International Airlines Boeing half an hour. But it was far from the flying-boat. Several times boats were almost capsized. Model 314 flying-boat, the worse than that. The figure of massive, four-engined Ber 17 hours for the flight was muda Sky Queen. based on an estimated true The date was October 13, air speed of 130 knots. In its 1947. The post-war emigration heavily overloaded state the rush meant that every plane plane would not attain that seat could be sold several times speed for many hours. Unless over. And charter companies the forecast headwind of 26 flourished. knots fell away almost to zero, After their Atlantic adventure: Joan Law (then 7), Sandra Bostock, 18 months, Just before the plane took off the crossing was a mathematical Jennifer Law (13). it was discovered 'that two impossibility. babies-in-arms had not been in Gwendolyn Ritchie and their ing the sky cleared. It was still to tell Gander and the weather- cluded in the passenger list. Girls three-year-old son. dark. Martin sent his second shifitof his decision. He could No action was taken by Soon after half-past three on officer back to wake Thompson, get no reply. But the message the pilot — what difference who rubbed the sleep from his was picked up by a Canadian Yet 62 passengers were care that October afternoon the fly could two babies make? The eyes and came forward to take Skymaster flying a load of fully loaded at Foynes on the ing-boat began to carve a Y- pilot was right—they made no a series of star shots. He went freight to Prestwick. The pilot, Shannon river (having pre shaped wake down the middle difference at all. The flight was of the Shannon river. Martin on rubbing his eyes after he Captain Steve Albulet, was a ve already doomed. Yet the crew viously flown from Poole) and had done so. His astral fixes meticulously strapped in. There had correctly relied on the long teran of scores of Atiantic cros of the Bermuda Sky Queen were disclosed a situation that none sings. A quick check of his posi was considerable irony in the stretch of water to give him a all good men, lacking only in safe overloaded take-off, and of the crew could credit or tion showed that he was only experience and in respect for bureaucratic care taken to en grasp. sure that all were aboard. soon he was climbing on course 90 miles from the Bibb. He re the Atlantic. to 8,000 feet. They flew at first Their average ground speed layed Martin’s message, then al Captain Charles Martin, war Thirty-four of them were Bri tish. Most were oil company above the cloud bank, the sky worked out at the ludicrous tered course for the ship. It time pilot in the U.S. Navy, above them crystal clear. When figure of 59 knots. They were might be useful to have was on his second round-trip employees returning to the Caribbean or to South America darkness fell, Thompson took a stranded in mid-Atlantic, with another plane in the area. across the North Atlantic. series of star shots. So far the out the slightest hope of reach A second airliner 300 miles His first officer, Addison with their wives and children following leave. flight was just routine. ing either shore. to the east, turned back to the Thompson, a veteran of 4,000 It couldn’t be true. There Bibb to give what help it could. hours flying as a pilot, was al Four girls in their early must be some mistake. Soon Three planes were now homing so on his second round Atlantic twenties, Tina Lewin, Doreen they would find the error, soon on to Station Charlie’s radio trip, but his experience of navi Wilkinson, Silvia Kent and Joan i— by , they would be laughing at their beacon. gation was limited. Keen, were UNO secretaries on own nervous gullibility for even In the passenger cabin of the The rest of the crew, the their way to New York. Bill half-believing anything so fan Sky Queen Yorkshireman flight engineer and his assis Bostock, tall and powerfully tastic. But every check they George Rothery noticed that the tant, the radio man, and the built, was travelling vrtth his j RALPH I made only confirmed their plane was flying eastwards, to steward were all experienced wife Josephine, almost as tall plight. wards the sun. He went up to men. and an ex-model, and their Only one solution occurred to the crew compartment. If they had a weakness three children, the smallest of Martin and Thompson. Only “ Which way are we going?” as a crew, it was a simple !BARKER whom, the 18-month-old Sandra, l ______one course of action seemed to “ We’re going back to the human fault which they was the baby of the plane. offer the smallest hope. To re weather-ship to refuel.” shared with half mankind. Katherine Healey, together At 9.30 that evening, after turn to the weather-ship. To Most of the passengers They were not very good with her two young children, six hours' flying Thompson alight on the sea near the Bibb. accepted this. The utter impos at arithmetic. aged six and four, was joining gave Martin an estimated time They scoured their minds but sibility of refuelling in a gale her field-chemist husband in of arrival over “ Station Char could think of no alternative. in mid-Atlantic did not occur to Headwinds Venezuela. Dark and petite, she lie,” the weather-ship in mid- them. had a presentiment about the Atlantic. He reckoned they At half-past nine the steward would pass it at 0200, about 45 Awful went through the passenger On the basis of the figures flight and felt that the whole minutes behind schedule. Mean compartments to make sure given him by his crew, Martin atmosphere was wrong. It was so odd, for instance, to see a plane while, having now entered thick Instinctively Martin shrank everyone was strapped in. The had calculated that he had cloud whose ceiling seemed to from adopting this course. The four UNO girls were playing enough petrol for 22 hours’ fly crew wearing sloppy civilian be unlimited, Martin was flying hull of a flying-boat was de cards. “Break it up,” said the ing and that the flight would clothes She resolved that when on instruments. The unpressur signed for contact with calm steward, “we’re going down.” take 17. That left him a five- she got to Foynes she would ised Boeing could not climb waters. It was not constructed On board the Bibb, the 47- hour safety margin. Headwinds leave the plane and go on by above the cloud. to withstand the buffeting of year-old captain, Paul B. Cronk, in the Atlantic might reduce it, ship. But when she mentioned her fears to her oil company Under these conditions celes the open sea. Once safely on was asleep in his hammock. He but it would still be ample, If the water it might survive for a they ran into winds of unex friends in the plane they tial navigation was no longer was roused and told that a time. But many wartime flying- plane was going to alight near pected strength and were r7n laughed them off. possible, and Thompson retired to the rest-bunk. “ Wake me boats had tried this sort of sea the ship. He gave orders for any doubt about reaching Gan Among the Americans on ditching only to smash their der, they could always put bapk board were Captain Thomas up,” he said, "when the cloud rescue gear to be broken out, clears.” hulls to pieces and sink, with then calmly went back to sleep. to Ireland before they reached Quinn and nine of the crew of the loss of most of the crew. a tanker delivered to Britain. But the cloud did not clear. Half an hour later an orderly the point of no return. That was Behind them in the huge bul how it looked to Charles Mar Canadians included Albert and Meanwhile, navigator Thomp roused him again. son was allowed to pass a rest bous fuselage were 62 passen “ Sir, we have the plane on ful night. gers for whose safety they were the radio phone.” Soon after 2 o’clock the radio responsible — 12 children, two “ O.K. Man the rescue sta operator got a radar fix from of them babies, 30 women, and tions.” Station Charlie, manned by the 20 men. The numbers rapped in “There are 69 people on United States coastguard cutter cessantly against the door of board” George M. Bibb. It put the Sky their minds. Sixty-two passen “WHAT?” Queen on course but still some gers. Sixty-two. 70 miles east of the ship. The Martin decided to keep her Startled flying-boat had been airborne going for a bit. See what hap 10 hours 25 minutes and was pened. Anything to postpone still only half-way across. this awful decision. The phlegmatic Cronk, a tall It was at eight o’clock, three man with rimless spectacles hours after the stark revelation who looked more like a busi Danger of that first astral fix, that the ness executive than a seaman turmoil inside Charles Martin was more startled by this infor Martin did not wake his navi suddenly resolved itself, releas mation than by the original tid gator. If the second half of the ing a store of repressed energy ings. His brain felt concussed trip took as long as the first which acted on his personality numb with incomprehension he still had, by his own (erron with catalytic force. Suddenly and shock. Sixty-nine people. It eous) reckoning, over an hour he was the mature airline pilot, was more than he had ever to spare. But with half the fuel making the decisions, choosing heard of in an airplane. The now burned off the plane would the lesser of two evils, casting magnitude of the rescue task make a better air speed. He aside self-recrimination, and appalled him. had, no worries.. ^ , concentrating his skill on the Cronk ordered every available While the navigator task in hand man on deck— about 100 men. slept on, the point of no “ I’M GOING BACK TO THE The scramble nets were draped return was left far behind WEATHER-SHIP.” over the side, swimmers in rub as the Sky Queen ploughed They were almost as far ber suits stood readly to dive on. The possible succour from the Bibb as they were overboard, the boat crews stood that might be provided by from Gander. In still air condi the George M. Bibb, too, tions they could probably reach receded. Oblivious to a dan neither. But the strong wester ger which had now become lies which put Gander firmly TURN TO a certainty, the crew re out of reach would probably laxed. make the Bibb just attainable. P A G E 5 Sky Queen’s pilot: Captain Charles Martin. At five o’clock in the morn- Martin sent a distress signal THE SUNDAY TRIBUNE, NOVEMBER 3, 1963 SEVEN-HOUR NIGHTMARE IN THE DARK head-on into the next steepling I ROM PAGE 1 wave. As the flying-boat crash- dived like a submarine, by. Then Cronk went to the water poured in through radio room and spoke to Mar the emergency escape tin. hatches and passengers The waves were surging and screamed in terror. jostling against each other, ris For Captain Albulet, and the -i ing to foam-flecked crests men on the Bibb, the huge fly topped by spindrift, then tumb ing-boat, 150 feet wide and 100 HEADING FOR DISASTER . . . The Bermuda Sfo Queen taking off at Foynes, Eire, on her last journey. ling exhausted into precipitous feet long, completely dis chasms of spent fury. It would appeared, hull, wings and tail oiler named Owen King, w h o be impossible to launch life constant danger of being over children. They would have to being lifted from the boat, San plane entirely submerged. It had supervised the rescue work boats until the sea abated. turned, of colliding with the think of something else. dra was nearly wrenched from was several seconds before the on the plane after the depar Something had to be done to flying-boat — and perhaps caus Cronk decided to try one of her husband’s arms and flung bow began to emerge like a ture of Quinn. Like the men of break up this tumultuous sea. ing further damage. The crew the ship’s big 20-man rafts. He into the sea. giant whale from the turgid had to launch three of them. But the children, and the the Bibb, and the other mer “I suggest we orbit in a fairly foam as she shook herself clear. dared not close in. After an hour the ship drifted down on The first sprung a leak, the sec others in the surf-boat were fin chant seamen on the plane, he small circle, as fast as we can. The watchers feared that ond was caught inthe whirling ally lifted aboard. Then the would always be remembered That may help to flatten the appalling carnage must have them and picked them up. “ I think it’s too rough to use eddies that surrounded the ship surf-boat turned back to the as a hero by the other passen sea,” said Cronk, “ Then you can resulted from the unyielding and carried astern, where it plane. gers of the Sky Queen. put her down in the middle of impact with a wave the size of rubber rafts,” called Cronk, “ but we’ll try them.” fouled the propellers. The third The second and third trips So, too, whatever mistakes the circle.” a house. Then a calm, even was sucked back against the were made in darkness, the had been made, would Charles voice broke the silence on the Plane and ship each launched On the deck of the Bibb, a a small rubber dinghy. Both ship’s side, but escaped damage. seas illuminated by the cutter’s Martin. There would have been radio phone. hundred seamen were pointing were blown away at once across It was clear that the rafts would searchlight. By the fourth trip, no rescue but for his skill in skywards at the regal outline of the surface of the sea be unmanageable by themselves 31 people had been saved. But getting the plane safely down. the Bermuda Sky Queen, the Seasick . Cronk spent the rest of the but Cronk decided to launch one the work was getting more and This fact was recognised after two Skymasters escorting her morning and early afternoon of the buoyant, self-baling, surf- more precarious as the seas wards when his airline pilot’s like equerries. From the flight boats and tow the surviving raft worsened and the air tanks of licence was renewed, and he has "We are O.K. We will taxi making practice approaches to deck of the flying-boat, Martin the flying-boat, using oil on the over to the plane, using it as a the surf-boat began to take been flying the American air scanned the wave-tops. He up to you.” water. It would have to be the routes continually since 1949. Martin had judged the stall sea from various angles, trying loading platform. Passengers thought he could see one or two could then be transferred from last trip for this particular boat, There were decorations for exactly right. The crash that to evolve a plan. Better wea possibly the last trip that night. members of the Bibb’s crew, smoother patches beyond the had seemed head-on to the ther was forecast for tomorrow, the raft to the surfboat and fer With the flying-boat now ser and a sentimental welcome for Bibb watchers had been cushioned by and the wise thing seemed to ried across. “Thanks,” he told . Cronk. be to wait till then. But mean iously waterlogged, Cronk de the passengers, when the cutter the falling wave-crest as it reached Boston. But before he “ But I think I’ll just pick out sucked away from the flying- while, in the flying-boat, the Rescue cided to get as many people a spot and set her down.” scene had deteriorated into a o ff as possible this trip. Six was relieved at Station Charlie, boat’s hull. The structure was Paul Cronk had one last duty Martin was conscious that this undamaged and no one was chaotic orgy o f crowded, seasick teen passengers were put down would be the moment in his The surf-boat motored stead on the raft and transferred to to perform. It was to train his hurt. humanity. life, if he survived it, that he There was no hysteria, ily across to the plane, the raft the boat. But it was too many. guns on the foundering Ber Martin restarted the engines. in tow. The merchant seamen muda Sky Queen, and sink her would always remember. His “Can you tie us up on a just a dull apathy, with Under its heavy load the raft career as an airline pilot might launched another of the plane’s had broken away from the as a danger to navigation. line?” everyone almost too 111 to well be over. The commercial care whether they lived or dinghies, the surf-boat crew plane. The boat took it in tow, “We’ll try.” grabbed it, cut it adrift, and af world might not forgive the sort died. but with its leaking tanks and The flying-boat switchbacked fixed their raft to the line. The of mistakes that had been made. across the swell, taxi-ing The only passengers who the overload the boat was al NEXT SUNDAY But he thrust all that from his were not in a helpless state sun was just dipping into the most submerged. Three of the towards the Bibb. Almost at sea as the rescue work began. mind. His immediate crisis was were the American merchant boat crew were forced to jump once the passengers began to The traditions of rescue at to save the lives of 69 people be seasick. seamen. They coped as best back on to the raft, taking by his skill. they could, improvising sick sea — women and children first three passengers with them. The pioneer As it approached the Bibb had already been sensibly The fact that his own inex bags and aprons. Even the fly In the confusion the signal the plane was seized like a toy broken. Now another order was perience, and that of his crew, ing-boat crew were continually ling torch on the surf-boat was in the backwash of a wave. Mar issued that cut across the con P rincess was the cause of his predi seasick. At half-past three, with lost overboard. The crew could tin saw the danger and cut the ventions. cament, did nothing to sully the throttles, but it was too late. only two hours of daylight felt, not signal the cutter for help. “ Families will not be sepa cool heroism with which he now Plane and ship bore down upon Martin called Cronk. The plane The tangled lines of the raft rated.” faced the consequences of it. each other in inanimate mag seemed in danger of breaking were fouling the boat’s propel Captain Cronk brought the A merchant seaman leaped ler. Steering became impossi netism. They crashed into each up. She was taking water and on to the raft, ready to grab Bibb sideways to the trough to other. The nose of the flying- the tailplane had loosened. ble and they were almost over people as they jumped. The break- up the sea as much as boat buckled and splintered, “ Skipper,” he pleaded, his whelmed by crashing seas. first of the other passengers to possible as Martin swung the the propellers fouled the life speech interrupted by continual leave the plane was Bill Bos- flying-boat round at right- boat davits. retching, “ could you try to get angles to the ship and across tock. As he jumped he clung Disaster "Full speed astern!” us off here somehow before tightly to a tiny bundle. It was the swell. Four times Martin Cronk took immediate action dark?” brought thle plane low over his 18-month-old daughter San Cronk picked the boat up in to extricate his ship from the The sea was still too rough for his searchlight and eased the the water, and four times he ronfusion The Sky Queen the lifeboats, and the only hope dra. baulked as ms eye rocusea on Sandra’s mother came next, cutter down towards it. Soon slipped away easily, but she seemed to be for the plane to that gigantic swell. . carrying Kenneth, her five-year- boat and raft were wallowing looked a scarred and sorry launch another dinghy. “ Get alongside. Suddenly a huge wreck. The work of rescue had old son. Stuart, the Bostock’s three volunteers from among elder son, was behind her. But wave swept boat and raft under Fearful become doubly urgent, yet the merchant seamen,” sugges the stern of the cutter. People Cronk still could not see as the raft sank away from him ted Cronk. “ If the raft holds in the trough of a wave he hesi on the raft were tipped into the how he was going to get the steady, cut it adrift and we’ll The fuel tanks of the Sky tated. When he finally jumped sea, the surf-boat capsized, and passengers off. try to pick them up. If it some of its occupants were Queen were almost dry. Mar "She’s letting in water,” he missed the raft. doesn’t, haul the men back on He was quickly grabbed and washed overboard. tin could no longer delay the called Martin. “ If we abandon board before they’re swept plunge into that writhing sea. hauled aboard. Captain Cronk stayed on the ship in our life-rafts dp away.” bridge, shouting orders through “ I’m coming down this time.” you think you can pick us up?” HE HAD ONLY ONE The men on the Bibb watched THOUGHT. “LOOK,” HE EX a megaphone to his men. There were nine tiny “ Bend a line around each excitedly, fearful for the fate of dinghies on the flying-boat, but Drifted CLAIMED. “ I’VE RUINED MY man’s chest. Send him pver the the people on the plane, yet they were a desperate measure. GOOD SUIT.” side with another line to tie thrilled by the grandstand view Each carried three people, The American seamen had Another woman was called round the people in the sea.” of this strange drima. with room for others to cling on now taken charge of the rescue for to complete the first load. Within seconds scores of men Captain Steve Albulet, in his outside. As long as the sky work on. board the plane. Three Leaving her small son with her were swarming over the side. Skymaster, circled and manoeu Queen floated, Cronk hoped to of them— Captain Quinn and husband, Gwendolyn Ritchie All available hands were either vred beyond the Bibb, ready to find a better way. two others— volunteered for the jumped. Then she remembered keep track of survivors if the He settled the cutter to wind trial run. They stood at the that she hadn’t said goodbye. holding on at the deck rail or dangling in the sea. flying-boat broke up. He ward, making a lee for front exit, six feet above the But she and her husband had Some of the passengers were watched as she drew closer and the plane, and put down an plunging sea. The first dinghy said a thousand silent goodbyes Closer to the water, skimming oil slick to quiten the sea. burst. The second one inflated to each other in the last few being thrown against the along so flat to the surface that Then he ordered the launching properly and they launched it, hours. cutter’s hull, others were being he thought she must be down. of a ten-oared surf-boat, hoping then jumped after it. When After the passengers had swept away. Sixty-one-year-old Then he saw a tiny white to pass a line to the plarw. The they were safely aboard and the been transferred from the raft, Mrs. Mary Last, of Los Angeles, plume of spray as the keel boat crew had to pull hard to dinghy seemed stable they cut the surf-boat motored back to was saved from being crushed brushed a wave-top. close with the fast-drifting themselves free. Meanwhile ward the Bibb, leaving the raft to death by seaman Ralph Martin had levelled off, shut plane. They could see the pas Cronk drifted down towards trailing from the plane, ready Keller of the Bibb. He himself the throttles and let the flying- sengers staring out of the win them. for the next trip. was badly bruised. boat relax into a stall. It sank dows, hear the creaking of the Fishing the three men out The seas were still rough and One by one all the passengers into the trough beyond the hull. was dangerous work. Only the the winds of gale force, and the and boat crew were safely wave-top, still airborne, clear of But the tiny boat, lifting on experience of the seamen aver surf-boat rocked perilously as it hauled aboard. Last to appear the water. Then, with a sicken the wave-crests and diving ted disaster. It was an impos sheltered in the lee of the cut was the coxswain of the surf- ing, foaming crash it smasher! steeply into the troughs, was in sible method for women and ter. As Jacqueline Bostock was boat, Lieutenant Mike Hall. Panting and exhausted he made his way to the bridge and saluted Cronk. “Sir, permission to take another boat over and get the rest of them.” But Cronk refused. The last trip had ended in disaster, very nearly in tragedy. They had lost the surf-boat, a n d would have to evolve some other method. Cronk selected his most ex perienced steering oarsman to gether with six fresh volun teers to row across, towing another raft. But the plane was drifting at four to five knots, the work of rowing through the gale with only six oars w a s exhausting, and after an hour the crew had to give up and return to the Bibb. Nightmare
Cronk brought the Bibb round to the bow of the plane and signalled to Martin. “How do you feel about spending the night on the plane?” It was some time before the plane’s signalling lamp winked back at him. When it did, the message was brief: "Affirmative.” For the people still on board the drifting flying-boat, the darkness was seven hours of nightmare. Every wave weak ened the plane’s structure and opened up the seams, and there was the continual, imminent threat of being forced to jump into the pitch blackness as the hull broke up. But by dawn next morning the wind has slackened and the .seas were almost calm. T w o hours later the rescue work had been completed, and the last passengers and crewmen had climbed over the Bibb’s rail Last to leave was a 38-year-old THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST FTRANSFORMATIO §f SCENES THAT I HAVE EVER Appointment at O rlando. . . by RENE MacCOLL
JOHANNESBURG, with the Negro ghettos oi HHg!' Monday. America’s Deep South, Outside Johannesburg ig h t a n d a nearly 500,000 blacks livi in these houses. HALF years Cape Town. Pretoria ago, back in East London, an E Durban, where th January 1955, notorious Cato Manó ather Trevor district is being razed are all pushing throug uddleston similar clean-ups, wit; escorted me on a the aim of finally pro viding nearly 1,250,00 long tour of the blacks with d e c e n native shantytowns housing. What o f the broade: which lay to the political scene as i; south-west of this affects the blacks? Well,’ the Verw'oerd Govern-* golden city o f a fine-looking, up-to- ment is going righ Johannesburg. date native suburb, with ahead with its plans to' more rows of neat, good- It proved a vile set up a series of í ’• looking houses, and “ Bantustans,” or small, nightmare. A hideous excellent, well-lit roads. separate, black-only jumble of rotting I say unhesitatingly States in various parts that this is one o f the of South Africa. . slumland. with little most fantastic trans water and less sanita formation scenes that I tion, fearful o v er have ever witnessed anywhere—and that the Bold crowding and hanging ■ ii everywhere above the ïíouth African authori ties are to be thoroughly ERWOERD’S aim dismal scene a commended on a slum is characteristic-^ monstrous stench. clearance effort planned V ally single-minded.* and carried out with Although at first thi majestic success. republic of South Africa Miracle “ Of course,” says will retain control of Mr. Davies, “ we made defence and foreigi : 1 _____ mistakes at first but we policy, the idea is tha OW I have just learned from them. sooner or later the., been back on a Bantustans are to be*J*:; nreturn: visit—and I completely independent I have been staggered at No force black States in which no ’ ! the miracle of large- white man will cnjo£&fl scale rehousing and slum any rights. clearance achieved. << r'Í OPHIATOWN, for example — the It is a mighty bol Instead of tumbledown experiment. What is ti shacks where they lived k J people were moved prevent these new blac _ nme or 10 to a room, the from there under the States in the fulness of " Bantus,” as South threat of force. But we time from becoming as Africa calls her black never used force again. nationalistic and as j alation, find thcm- “ After that the moves opposed to white South ves in well-designed were carried out only after the most painstak Africa as Ghana ? I don’t brick houses, with sani know. But there are tation and electricity. ing consultation with interesting years ahe: and explanations to the At one point we halted people concerned.” in South Africa, that- in the midst of a pleasant for sure. bit of heathland on the The standard of living edge of which was a of South Africa's Bantu sports stadium seating population is far higher 30.000 people. than that of any other State on the African I thought my leg was continent, including the being pulled when my British protectorates of guide, Mr. H. G. Davies Swaziland, Bechuana- of the Johannesburg City land, and Basutoland, Council, remarked: “ You and such spots as Algeria are now standing in the and Egypt. centre of what used to be Orlando.” There was visible proof of this in the presence of a surprising number of big new American motor Oblivion cars in these black suburbs. lRUANDO ! One of A black-run beer hall Ithe worst hell open 12 hours a day jbispots of all— where you could get a vanished, bulldozed and huge plastic jug of soapy scorched into oblivion. beer for a shilling, A bit later I spotted a children’s playgrounds, familiar-looking build a branch of a famous ing, standing by itself in British bank, cinemas, another area of open churches, a nursery country. This proved to garden . . . the whole be the Community of the issue. Resurrection, Huddles ton’s own religious organisation, now silent New homes and shuttered. All about it stretched O R their new what used to be black houses the Bantu Sophiatown. Nothing of F pay an average it remains, but at the rental of about edges they are starting £ 2 10s. a month. to build new houses for The standard of whites. housing compares very Moroka. which used to favourably. I’d say, with be a grisly squatters’ those of much of Western camp occupied by 60,000 Europe—and there is miserable blacks, is now simply no comparison ( j E T M E r s T
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f i s h y s to ry The Star’s Pretoria Bureau ISH have the strangest F fancies. A large - mouthed black bass, 11 inches long, was caught on the Barberton farm of Mr. P. R. B. Lewis, t a member of the Fauna and Flora Advisory Board of the Transvaal. When the fish was opened, * a spitting cobra— presum ably a rinkhals—13 inches long was taken from its stomach. , , - Mr. Hans Abraham, Commis- trvffSy f’t '^mner General of the Transkei (right), leads the singing of “Sikelele Afrika” with pupils of the Thitffái- zine Higher Primary ScMbif arkinson la Orlando West, during I his visit to the south-western' Native townships tjii's I morning. Mr. Patrick LeiCfs* chairman of the City Coun oubles Civ! cil Management Committee, is next to him. Theatre bit PRETORIA REPORTER HANNESBURG’ S Civic Theatre was cited yest<| day as a classic example of Parkinson s Law ii _ lion by a Johannes~ ' ^ Councillor, Mr. |R. B. Lewis. Addressing the Institute of nicipal Treasurers and Intants on “Councillors pials as seen by Parkinso: Lewis detailed the histo iff the planning of the theatre said it would now proba it about R777.140, compar Hh the original estimate •I2ii2,000. _ gpe said the theatre was designed some years ago to j people. It was decided later jjmge the site of the theatre estimated cost then to seat . same number of people bi ased to R450.000 — because it felt the building should be ire lavish. Another rise Hut when tenders were rfl- ved the cost had Increased to 25,000. It was decided then to Srease the theatre to seat 1,020 bple. On this basis, the cost reased to R.605,000. pi suggest that between the ie of the approval of the fond venture and the final *es, the plan was alteri fltlonal amenities provided laps there might even ha" In trouble with acoustics j re-.,: firing alterations, so that th$_ 3.1 cost of the theatre will | ply be R.777,140,” said 1 vis. phis was where Parkinsfnla came into the story. A Iher agreed to give the c I a piece of ground which sold and the proceeds bards the capital cost of fatre. Windfall |When the ground was o |ly granted it was anticip sale would realise R100, ip ; added. “Owing to de when the property was fi Isold the amount available wards the theatre was R L '0,000 but R220.000. What would you reaction to this R120.000 to have been? It halve been: ‘Well, thank ness, the theatre has cost ; than we contemplatei this windfall it will ithin our original budg HffiBut the reaction was: MK can have the curtain we jiting.’ ^JCan we now build the J K auditorium we had pla the future?” asked /
tT h í S t a r \\ riling on the present situation in South Africa a former editor of THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1963 The Star discusses . . . Composing discords The dilemma How do you make friends with people whose oppor tunities you are restrict o f the honest ing? rPHE new trend among Afrikaner Nationalists to man “make friends with the Bantu before the Communists do” is B v HORACE FEATHER so welcome that it would be ungracious to suggest that it; A N KQl Wia APPKOPRl ATP HIM ,|,i, „r,ic|0 has been a long time coming. would have been " A l ime lor R ea so n ,fo r I have never known a situation in South Africa in which it it forms the theme of a war more necessary to clear the air of its emotional whole educational programme content and get down to a dispassionate assessment of that the Administrator of the facts. Natal, Mr. Gerdener. suggested is whether the rule o) lato It is, i suppose, natural that should be insisted on in dealing at Greytown yesterday. It has some of us should say “ I told with people whose avowed been advocated very eloquently -vou s o ” and try to place the object is to overthrow the con by Dr. Eiselen, former Seere- blamt* ror our present position on stitution by violating the law? tarvy iorfor Native AffairsAffaire; andanH sponsible shoulders Ior it; of but the we people must re-be We might beg the question by now Commissioner-Genera) in careful that in swatting the pleading that since these people the Northern Transvaal. It spider we do not knock down the were not a party to the enactment of the law they cannot reasonably has been supported by the house be expected o obev it “ Doouer” Church whose We should “ wel1 ^ i s e d also, *Xp*Cted .to&bey Jt' JnePP!vS W h h f Wn ° Se 111 considering the elements of But that excuse could be urged .sine says Whites who are rude 1 which the spider is composed, to also on behalf of juvenile delin to Africans are “ more dan- determine whether we have not quents; and it was urged, with gerous than non-W hite agita- a11 ,jt us- Black and White, con- much more logic and validity, in 1 tors” It has been unrtlr tribuCed m some degree or another, defence of the Suffragettes in ; „ j r . „ I , „ ,lmd,t r to the compounding of its peeu- Bntam-without, let it be said, written by various Nationalist liar sac of poison ! making any impression on the Party newspapers, some of 1 courts. which, though not notoriously' Í iwmin And ' ' dat a paradox (to use a liberal ^o so far now V>CIIIIdICentral issue IfefellC very mild term; we have in the oeiai. go so tat .now as to ------.— — international situation regarding accord an African the title of j historical 'framework 'of "south South Africa when certain goveru- ”Mr.' It has probably made Africa, however, it is almost aca- lnents—;and I say this advisedly— it easier for the Johannesburg demic when weighed against the i as,. " ed as organized bodies sub- cvoMissi ~ *i— — a. /-- ! sidize elements ™rUr>cn hcw-hqvoh Municipality to drop the offen practical issues that face us at Islalze elements whose declared the moment objects are violence, sabotage and sive title of “ boy” from its The most vital oi them, is that, revolution, and at the same time schedules of African posts. no matter how the situation has I C011demn the South African It is to be hoped that the come about, we are threatened j au^hoi ities for taking steps not j advocates of this excellent internally and externally by an I ° ? ly 10 Punish these violations ; trend will propagate it aiso organized movement to convert of the law- but to prevent them. South Africa from a White i nr/i • • ,, ■,, where it is most desperately dictatorship into a Black d ie- VV licit IS lllSlllieU. needed — in the Department tutorship J and Ministry of Bantu _ Ad__ Many of us hold the view that j The methods adopted by the ministration. For it is from the one would be as pernicious j present Government are' un- thatdepartment that tum near a* ISa u?e other—that it could, , doubtedly clumsy and in some t at aepaitm ent that two new indeed, be infinitely worse^and ; respects ”allous, but the question developments are now coming that if it were forced upon us is whether any methods would be which are quite needlessly from outside or brought about by considered justified that did not making enemies, not friends mternal revolution it could result conform to the international stan in anarchy of many an African. dards of justice? It migh be argued that the Either we are threatened with One such move is the threat is illusory. subversion or we are not. If the gratuitous limitation placed I myself believe it is real. I Western world gives tacit support on African traders even within have met some of the ■ leaders of to unconstitutional action against the movement, two of them in ___ their own townships. The tlie regime inJ South______>Africa, can ,,lh o. . ,, .. .. Accra, where I was impressed it at the same time reasonably ou itr is tne publication of the and dismayed by the ramifications ! insist that there should be only Bantu Laws Amendment Bill 0! hie organization, the unscru- a constitutional reaction? which has proclaimed an Pulousncss of the men at the head These are the questions we face, intention not to simDlifv bur °,f il ,aild the number of bodies There is another. If revolutionary “ ™ , SJmp,'Iy* ° ul throughout the world who give it activity is being carried on in ,o make harsher and more moral and financial support South Africa—no matter, for the complicated, the already hated _ . sake of this particular argument, influx control laws. lllV S 'jiir C l C O I l l l i c t 'vll° or wliat provoked it—there Both these measures are » must be inherent in it the ,mrio ‘ „ “ measures are x nave no doubt elther fron) tne elements of civil war. Is this a understandably making for- information I gained in Ghana: prospect to be faced with com merly well-disposed Africans arid, later, in Nigeria that there is 1 placency? bitter and frustrated, and are a 0l:jSe association between the I recall a shocking but true —behind Mr Vorster’s back as leaders of this movement and the i retort by George Bernard Shaw it were— creatine new nocked Communis,1 regime, and that there to a plea that the aeroplane u n ° new Pockets are special schools m Russia and should be outlawed as a weapon of resentment and probably of in two of the satellite countries of war. To suggest such a thing dangerous thoughts. where hundreds of Africans— ; would be absurd, tie said. “ It may some of them from this country b? horrible, but horror is tne —are being indoctrinated in Com- whole point of war. ” mumsm and taught the tested . , , Impoverishment methods of revolution and the ( A l O l C C o t e Y Ms sinister, techniques of sabotage. ARADOXICAL as it may It might be thought—and is. in There is honor in many of the sound i* is a reflection on fact, suggested in some political things being done in South Africa theP standard of bilingualism cucles-that if we accept this today. Some oi them might be tne standard oi bum uahsm postulale the obvlous thing to do necessary to prevent even greater m bourn Airica tnat tne is t3 SUppon the Government in horror—I don't know. I do know Department o f Education Is their snong-arm policy, that some of them are not. Which experiencing difficulty in find- But suppose we feel, as many brings me back to our dilemma. ing English translators. Time 01 us do. that it is the Govern- All honest men I feel sure, mould support any action that was when nine out of ten ; cip jtatecj the cr:sts and that their was really essential to avert Afrikaners were perfectly com - ideologies are leading the country violence, bloodshed and destruc- petent translators in either of from bad to worse? turn, but how many of them the official languages. It is ex- That is our dilemma-, how to in their heart of hearts can countenance the sundering of tremely doubtful whether that draw a ™ c'tidnn J iniquities of the Government and peaceloving. inoffensive African ts any longer the case. The t.he step8 that are liecessary to families and the arbitrary up trend to Afrikaans unilin- protect us. Black as well as rooting of thousands ot others gualism on the platteland ha- White, from chaos. from then place of birth and It calls for a searching of the their banishment into the outer been unmistakable for years. wtlderness? and this in turn Is reflected in ' 1 co oUillllJt weU as for logical Can a person logically condemn the public service and else- one problem that I myself the Government for. on the one where. never satisfactorily solved in all nauct. us inhuman ideologies D So much so is this the case my 25 years of newspaper editing (which in- believes have brought, 3. 11-mr the Friurntinn nerr'rt- vvas the attitude that should be u- to our present pass) and sup- that the Education Depart adopte(1 tQ tht bannin(r of Com. port it, on the other, in its II ment tears tnat tngnsn may mllnist publications Should the determination to preserve order cL become a translation language principle of the freedom of the
Institute of Municipal Treasurers and Accountants S.A. (Incorporated)
VYF-EN-DERTIGSTE JAAR-KONFERENSIE
Instituut van Munisipale Tesouriers en Rekenmeesters ♦ S.A. (Geinkorporeer) J CITY HALL / STADHUIS PRETORIA 13-16 APRIL 1964
..Begrotingspraktyke van plaaslike bestuurs- MR. I. A. B. GALLETLY MR. G. HAYGARTH MNR. G. HARMSE liggame” is die onderwerp van die referaat deur "The Finance Committee, its Role, Functions “ Differential Rating.” „Finansiele beheer onder die nuwe stelsel van DR. J. J. N. CLOETE, M.Admin., D.Phil., Senior and Duties.” plaaslike bestuur in Transvaal.” Lektor in Staatsleer en Publieke Administrasie, Universiteit van Pretoria. ’n Simposium van referate sal gelewer word deur Mnr. G. Harmse, A.I.M.T.A.(S.A.), Stadstesourier, Potchefstroom, en Mnr. I. A. B. Galletly, A.I.M.T.A.(S.A.), Tesourie Assistent, Salisbury. Mnr. G. Haygarth, B.Com., A.I.M.T.A.(S.A.), Adjunk Stadstesourier (Rekeningkundig en Finansiëel), Durban, se onderwerp is «Differential Rating.”
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Councillor P. R. B. LEWIS, C.A.(S.A.), M.P.C., Deputy Chairman, Management Committee, and MR. G. C. JONES, F.I.M.T.A., F.C.A., Borough Chairman, Non-European Affairs Committee, City Treasurer of Reading, President of the Institute of (ohannesburg, will deliver a paper on the I4th of Municipal Treasurers and Accountants (of the April. Subject “ Councillors and Officials as seen United Kingdom), will address the Conference. by Parkinson.”
88 THE SOUTH AFRICAN TREASURER, A p r il 1964 rjlH E Newspaper with L1 projects the largest circulation PLAASLIKE BESTUURNUUS vill house serving Local Authorities ind a vast ;ost about throughout the Republic, ars. South West Africa and LOCAL GOVERNMENT REVIEW ng number the Rhodesias. : resources (Registered at the G.P.O. as a newspaper.' , especially Member of Magazine Publishers' Association and road May, 1964 ance. No. 37 15c city. The} also happ} 'hey, there- ■ates to th( f Municipa / trust tha CONFERENCE PAPERS — e one. GOOD AND INDIFFERENT by the Editor NCE again we are hieing of! to the coast and other centres to attend various conferences*. O in the local government field. In fact I think we are more than half way through the_, season and in spite of discussions and new ideas put forward, criticism and praise, conference ; organisers appear to be jogging along in their old way. One thing that seems to have stoojggl out in the report from delegates who have attended several conferences this year is the clevej^l and highly amusing paper read at the Treasurers’ conference at Pretoria. A few more papers of this calibre would do much to improve attendance at congresses. Unfortunately there are, .at times, some very erudite guest speakers who fail to get over to many of the delegates simP*y because their approach is too academic for the average person. thps,e. g^jjasipnjs that discussion fails or wilts after the first couple of speakers from the floor. 3y in-betwee — . ------I— : s------I !T1 ry, expensit There is a great deal to be con form for the first time. sidered in organising conferences Mr. Adams is a man with both and it is most important that the feet on the ground, yet has offered m “stage management” should be an approach to economic matters without fault. Careful thought must which is refreshingly different, even be given to the type of papers to if a trifle alarming at first sight. His be delivered, the appeal and the paper, which should be read before ability of the speaker to get his the conference, deals with the rela subject over to the delegates. Once tionship of top salaries and the lg in this has been done there is a fan jyaljue of the contributions of muni in tl chance that discussion will be livgj,y cipal. services of the community. >e ve It is often wise when the subject ------irts c is a bit off the beaten track to put; horit the writer into touch with a few idivic potential delegates for discussion on the papers thus ensuring that questions and answers will highlight but important factors on the subject incti under discussion leading to a more unc general discussion. whi< It will be interesting to see how e bo Mr. Kenneth Adams’ paper on e the emolumetrics will be received at the jrts Town Clerks’ conference in Durban ithor next week. His is a subject ‘of great interest and, for the man in the street, he will be meeting it in this
R, April 1964 CLINICS probe intomisuse IJNICS FOR AFRICANS living in Soweto are prov ing inadequate because of the great increase in g^)^]>ulation. The clinic at Orlando serves 38,573 p»’opl£* of trust funds lljfe- one at Shantytown 43.110. people and the Filnvilie . EXPRESS REPORTER H i i c 3; ,! ihjivn fr m onic'.vnfp clinic |A UNI I ED PARTY M.P.C. will launch a strong attack in the 1524)32 people. Provincial Council next week on the five-year delay in the publication of the Provincial Auditor’s report - and the misuse the Transvaal Provincial A ) * _ ( of trust tunds by some small local authorities. lustration, which is respnnsiMwr In an interview yesterday the I for the provision of clinics^ i/t, M.P.C., Mr. P. R. B. Lewis, told "There appears to be no follow- Soweto, was informed by ; the me: “It is high time the criti through at ail on the report. What pannesburg City Councils fit,*' cal backlog of work in the Pro is the good of reporting a thing t: vincial Audit Department was if no action is taken?” 11 that another clinic y W '- brought into the open — and I It also appeared from the jperately needed in the Jabhvjf, intend to do just that in the con report that some councils tinued budget debate. were abusing the provisions of “ At the present sitting we the Local Government Ordi Although the Director of ÍfoMv have before us the annual report nance which stipulated that Services has • informed ’THjéP of the Provincial Auditor for the the Administrator’s permission |\ Council that an additional'! year 1958-59, a period virtually had to be obtained before any Jabavu, to be site#® , before the life of this council. contract could be entered into faoane, will be operating#^. “This report was only printed between a council and a councillor. next year, no plans have yétt In September last year. The pre vious report was printed about n submitted. ' 18 months earlier, and the re Revenue short n additional clinic for Motttev port now before us has only been ch has a population of 98.WBK presented because we specifically I intend to ask a number of asked for it. What is the good of completed in I960 at Tl^c^B about Stbend a questions considering in 1964 something about the whole matter in the he plan was to provides that happened in 1958.” ic facilities including imKb.i ?hënmthe matter « fc eXt was Week’ put right 11 13 in time the |Hery services. Up to date interest of the taxpayer and the efficient administration of local EQUIPMENT NOT USEÍ It was imperative that financial authorities,” said Mr. Lewis. but since June, 1961, when41ih»tl reports particularly should be up t,J .he additor's report reveals to date if the Provincial Council that nearly a quarter of the 112 (lie was opened, it has bgeM local authorities and health com- ting only pediatric cases. was to maintain a watchful eye on local authorities. mittees m the province were :tor in charge is an obstctr^j|iW; According to the present re guilty m the 1958-59 period of gynaecologist. ■£ port, thousands of rands of disregarding legal procedures Jr. Patrick Lewis, chairman of, trust money had been misused fnrld using Native administrative annesburg City Courafi|'Jij for rates fund purposes in 1958 th»dA^°r- trVst monies without agement Committee, asjketi ] and 1959 by many small local the Administrator’s permission. the Provincial Council this;/ authorities. fn almost every case where k: “ Is it right that a ehftfej Mr. Lewis, who is an accountant revenue fell short of expenditure £S& and vice-chairman of the Johan- trust money was used to make apleted in 1961 shoulda lie! good the deficit. ually idle for 45 years, that nesburg Management Committee, Municipalities criticised for ipment should be boughpip^f said. This misuse in each case is (ranee of its use?’’ simply stated in the report No . ,h *3 , «e re Alherton, indication is given of action taken Benonl Elsburg, Germiston, Mr. Lewis said the B aragw if**8 to end the malpractice, which is a Louis Trichardt, Piet Retief, spital Board has “ expr^ very bad thing in principle. , Pretoria North and Rusten- ong views ” regarding Durg, the provision of facl_____ atónch “ are so necessary.^ at 'Tfedf^to relieve lb* ■hibavu .
JO'BURC COUNCILLORS IN ROW OVER NEW M.O.H. Dr. A. Smith’s nomination held up SUNDAYCITIVinA V TIMESnm ni'u REPORTERn n n A n m n n T HE ?IanaSeni®n* Committee o f the Johannesburg City Council has selected I)r. Alexander Smith ° ff,iCerl °f Heallh for Johannesburg, to succeed Dr. Scott-Millar who retires ition Ï' f°r “ear y !hree T nths the Management Committee has failed, without explana- lion, to submit its recommendation for the appointment of Dr. Smith to ihe full Council for formal flppro\ a , most suitable for the position that a pressure group within or his deputy, has always ! A* « result, a major row (because of his ability, personality,) the U.P. caucus is determined acted as deputy Medical Offi has blown up among the alld background.” to secure the appointment of the cer of Health. On a number \U.P. councillors. According Witkrluu/B second candidate. of occasions he has acted as to council sources, it now ir n a r a w n In an attempt to settle the issue, Medical Officer of Health. He has been in the sendee of the threatens to split the U.P. But since then the Manage- r a m "con ^ ftteT w il/b e held* on Council for about 12 years. caucus. ment Committee has withdrawn Wednesday. Previously he was deputy The appointment of Dr. Smith the .,_DrL_Sr?lth'3 appointment has Medical Officer of Health in las Johannesburgs new Medical agenda for the full Council. (already been approved by the. Bulawayo. ( Officer of Health was approved A member of the Management' University of the Witwatersrand In the minutes of its last 1 by" the Management Committee Committee to whom I spoke (which has already told the Man- meeting, the Management Com on March 17. yesterday confirmed that the agement Committee that Dr. muieemittee recommended recommended mat,that, "sub-“sub- ArmrHinir tn nf reco™™endati° n ° f Dr- Smith's Smith is acceptable by the Uni- ject to the approval of the Min- the mert M "a committee o^ off^ i h? d bee,n wlthdra' f 1 verslty as honorary Professor of ister of Health. Dr. Smith be the meeting, a off‘ ; from the last meeting of the Urban Health Administration in appointed to the position of fi*1V n a ^ L n trwlr C u? cl1’ but he declined to com- the Department of Preventive Medical Officer of Health at a the Management Committee. Inter- ment. and social Medicine. salary of R8,000 a year." llkely can-, “It is an unfortunate situation. Dr. Smith is at present No. Dr. Smith received his de d^ S - ^ 1-1 iS- Conf ldercd ln I ^ n not give any reasons" he, 3 in the Municipal Department g ree at the University of Cape
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