NEW AGE, THURSDAY, MARCH 24. 1960 MASS SLAUGHTER BY NEW ERA IN BASUTOLAND In Maseru recently, the whole Basuto nation rejoiced at the installation of Bereng Seeiso as Paramount Chief and the swear­ POLICE ing in of the new Legislative Council as the first step on the {Continued from page 1) Bophelong and four bombers flew day and by nightfall was in the overhead. A large crowd coming prison cells. country’s road to self-govern­ and some bodies were identified by ment. hurritied relatives on the spot Wo­ from Tsirela township, also of Van­ PAC RACIALISM men covered their heads with their derbijl Park, turned back at the arms and wept and their cries could news of the baton charge of the Monday’s tragic events were pre­ Our pictures show: Left: The be heard from far off. Bophelong people. ceded on Sunday afternoon by a swearing-in ceremony, with Bri­ Police closed off the area, kept Skietcommandos including at least PAC attempt to break up an ANC tain’s High Commissioner Sir reporters out and refused to allow one women in a lace blouse, were meeting in Mofolo Village, one of photographers to take pictures. out around the Vanderbiljl Park Johannesburg’s south-west town­ John Maud officiating and Be­ Tension was building up again area and police reinforcements were ships. At times police firing from a reng in the seat of the Para­ after the shooting and as the shock rushed in and top police officers Saracen at the ready nearby seemed mount Chief; of the news spread. As we left the took command. imminent in view of ANC-PAC friction. The ANC meeting, which area more Saracens were rolling in. GENERAL STRIKE Right: Part of the enormous The firing with such shockingly was on local issues, was furiously crowd which gathered at Maseru heavy casualties was the second Monday’s events marked virtually heckled and interfered with by a time that day the police had opened a general strike in the Vereeniging PAC group led by R. Ndziba and to witness Bereng’s installation; fire at Sharpeville. The first and and Vanderbijl Park area. Iscor M. Mafate. PAC men actively inter­ smaller incident had been dnring suspended operations due to the ab­ fered with the meeting and shouted Below: Elizabeth Mafekeng, the morning. sence of its African labour force. threats of violence. once a fleeing exile, now an Bophelong location of Vanderbijl Evaton township too did not go The ANC acted to avert trouble by moving the crowd across the adopted daughter of Basuto­ Park did not go to work on Monday to work. No buses ran and many land, in full regalia for the in­ either and a huge crowd of men, thousands gathered outside the po­ street to an open space while the women and even children converged lice station. The crowd dispersed Africanists then went into a huddle stallation of Bereng. With her in on the police station. They stood later. to decide on their next action. this picture are Mr, Bob Asmal there for some time. In Johannesburg a score or so of PAC heckling included shouts: PAC leaders, Sobukwe among them, “To hell with Lutuli. He’s a sell­ of Evaton and (far right) Mr. J. The police gave the crowd an Molefe and Mr. J. (Anti-Pass) order to disperse in five minutes. It marched to the police stations in out” Also “Down with the ANC. is not clear if the five minutes the morning to announce they had They are Communists,” and “Away Kumalo. elapsed, but the police launched a left their passes behind. The PAC with the Indians and away with the full-scale baton and rifle-butt charge leadership was arrested later in the Jews.” and threw tear gas. The police pur­ sued the people right back into the township. At a crossroads a fruit truck was stopped by a section of the crowd which grabbed the fruit and vegetables and pelted passing LANCA'S NIGHT OF First Fruits of Bantu Education traffic. A police van arrived on the scene and shot into the crowd kill­ ing one 19-year-old. His body was left lying there. Several others are TERROR reported to have been wounded {Continued from page 1) badges were displayed. There were isolated cries of “Masi- there. by; “I hope the kaffirs kill you.” Fifty White and 100 African jw- hambe 2^nke!”—“Let us all go!”— Shocking Exam Results In Three Saracens then moved into The streets were crowded with lice, under the command of Major but for the rest the people pressed tense, sullen and angry people. Rheeder, stood by at Philippi and forward silently, but determinedly. Death of Ida Mntwana PEACEFUL START another large force had been mobi­ Queues were organised quickly lised at Langa. and the men waited quietly for their New Age regrets to announce the Thousands of African workers be­ Many of the police were armed turn to enter the police station. death of Mrs. Ida Mntwana, vete- gan gathering at Langa and Nyanga African Schools with sten-guns and others carried Large numbers were still awaiting r.m ANC women’s leader and a at dawn on Monday morning in riot sticks. Two Saracens were former treason trialist, at her home their turn at noon, with hundreds i’T^HE examination results of the lower marks than Grade B which is being used as a stop-gap until the large-scale ^demonstrations against parked in the rear court-yard at the still to be dealt with crowding the first group of scholars to write taken in the northern provinces. first group of teachers trained in in Western Native Township, Jo­ the pass laws. The demonstrations Philippi station. inner and outside court-yards. hannesburg, following a heart were preceded by well-attended the Bantu Junior Certificate Exams ENGLISH DOOMED? Verwoerd’s own training sch lols attack. No arrests were made. The reveal alarming trends in the deve­ The latest step that has been could take the field. At the end of meetings at both centres on Sunday, NO INCIDENTS demonstrators had their names and taken to lower further the standard The entire Congress movement where speakers from the Pan Afri­ lopment of Verwoerd’s Slave Edu­ 1959 these schools turned out their will mourn her passing. To her The police, however, confined addresses taken and were warned cation. of English is the order which has first lot of teachers, and the married can Congress had outlined their to appear at the Wynberg Magis­ # Fewer candidates wrote the been given to teachers in the second­ family and friends New Age con­ plans. themselves to keeping the road clear women were immediately given veys its heartfelt condolences. for passing traffic and there were no trate’s Court next Tuesday, March Junior Certificate exams than ary Schools to teach at least two notice to finish up at the end of A large group of the demonstra­ incidents. 29. in the previous year, 1958, subjects in Afrikaans and the rest this month. tors at Nyanga began the three-mile Spokesmen for the crowd ex­ NO WORK when Africans wrote the same in the vernacular. The teachers are To meet the requirements of MISSING^MAN IS march to Philippi police station just plained that the people had come to Groups of demonstrators at Phi­ examination as other racial under no obligation to teach any secondary schools a special course after 6 a.m. They walked along be arrested, as they had all left lippi, when asked whether they groups — the Cape J.C. subject in English except, possibly, was opened at Healdtown Training FOUND silently, in small groups of five or their reference books at home. would go to work on the morrow, # The percentage of first classes English itself. six. Institution and those who qualified JOHANNESBURG. The police did nothing until just answered with a unanimoui and re­ was considerably lower than DISPLACEMENTS there were granted a Bantu Educa­ Mr. Nage Mdeni, who disappeared By seven o’clock some 1,500 had after 9 a.m., when Major Rheeder sounding “NO! We shall stay away in 1958. When the government started tion Diploma. This course has now from his home in Zola township and gathered outside the police station, announced that all those who had from work for as long as necessary, # The percentage of ordinary cutting down on expenses by dis­ been transferred to Fort Hare. As whose picture New Age published, several hundred in the grounds and no passes and wished to be arrested until we get our demands.” passes was 20 percent lower missing male teachers it announced soon as their numbers increase they was found in the Pretoria district the others closely packed on both should come forward. Those who When asked what they intended than in 1958. that it wanted to employ more will displace the old teachers whom suffering from loss of memory, and sides of the road. did not wish to be arrested should to do when they appeared before The results in the Transkei are married women as they have a Dr. Eiselen called a “Liability” that is now back with his family. The demonstrators were quiet and go home. the Magistrate, they replied with reported to have been even worse. natural sympathy in their dealings must be liquidated if Bantu Educa­ well-disciplined. No banners or The entire crowd surged forward. the slogan: “No bail; No fines; No Answer to Police Raids Schools that had consistently had a with young children. But the truth tion was to develop according to defence!” good record of passes for years of the matter was that they were plan.