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LET PHILIPS PLAN LIGHTING FOR YOU NEWS/CHECK 12 MARCH 1965 NEWS/CHECK ON SOUTHAFRICA AND AFRICA Vol 3 No 18 12 MARCH 1965 10th Floor Unitas Buildin;; 42 Marshall Street lohannesburg Southafrica PO Box 25252 Phone: 838-1541 EDITOR Otto Krause ASSISTANT EDITOR Robert Hodgins STAFFWRITERS Wll-SON .*T LONDON .iNTI-SOUTU.VFRICA RALLY Robin Briggs lean du Plessis Cash is not alt the problem Barbara Fink Peter Le Roy IRROR, mirror, on the wall. The great international Unilever Garth Tomkinson company reportedly spends R200m a year on advertising its soap EDITORIAL RESEARCHER M products; Southafrica scarcely spends R4m in all to put over its sales Isme Bcnnie pitch to the world. But money is only a small part of the vexing problem CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Gorry Bagnall of Southafrica's image abroad, nor would money alone fix it. For other Roy Barnard facets of this matter which disturbs so many Southafricans, read the Esme Berman Fred Cleary COVERSTORY. Tony Mannc Madeleine van Biljon Tony Williams-Short Making our cross. With this month's Provincial Elections in view, PRODUCTION NEVk'S/cHECK decided that a satire was appropriate to so tired a bundle of Elise Chilvers Isobel Gowie issues. The satire began to take the form of a board game, and if this ADVERTISING MANAGER was to be, it was decided that the game should be playable. The game tlclen Hardy NEWS/CHECK devised has turned out exceedingly playable, especially after NATAL ADVERTISING its rules were honed and polished by ICT computer systems analyst Trevor REPRESENTATIVE Frank Belling Winer, NEWS/CHHCK'S contribution to this year's ballot battle is entitled CAPETOWN ADVERTISING VOTE, and most of what is needed to play the game appears in the middle REPRESENTATIVE of this issue. Charles Cameron-Strange (Box 4511 — Phone 41-1508) The colour of their orders. When politics and economics tangle in Published by Checkpress (Pty) Ltd at 42 Marshall Street Southafrica, the battle is a close one. It is a battle which is being fought lohannesburg with ever-increasing frequency as manpower shortages and the ravages of Printed by Radford Adiington Ltd Caithness Street Ophirton inflation make themselves felt, Southafrica's mines, perhaps most acutely lohannesburg aware of the effects of manpower shortcomings, have tried a different method Distributed by Central News of labour organisation — and clashed with those who stand for the colour Agency Ltd corner Commis­ sioner and Rissik Streets bar at all costs. For an analysis of the position now, turn to MINING & lohannesburg FINANCE. Registered at the GPO as a newspaper The tough haul. The story is told of the first-year student whose parents YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION RATES Southafrjca, South West Africa, brought him all the way from SWA to Pretoria University, waited outside Rhodesia. Malawi, Zambia and in the car while he went to deposit his luggage in the residence, waited all Protectorates: R5.20 (surface mall), R7.50 (airmail). day, and had to drive off without seeing him again — he was being initiated. Britain: £3.4.0 (surface mail), £5.2.6 (airfreight) and £8.9.0 The rituals at Southafrican universities which over the last few weeks have (airmail), been turning green freshers into University Men are discussed in LIVING. European Countries: £3.4.0 (surface mail), £5.2.6 (airfreight) and £9.12.0 (airmail). Man alone. Literary trends usually change slowly and quite perceptibly United States and Canada: $9 (surface mail), $29.50 (airfreight) from one generation to the next. Occasionally, however, a maverick leaps and $40 (airmail). the stockade fence and strikes out across country quite alone, bringing new Australia and New Zealand: £A4.10.0 (surface mail), £A11.9.3 insights - but also causing a dust-up. For the hows and more particularly (airfreight) and £A17.19.0 (airmail). the whys of Adam Small's private breakout, see FOCUS. COVERSTORY: The Republic's Image Abroad — P. 32 . Africa 17 Focus on Newspeople 10 Contents5 Art 43 Adam Small 13 Press 41 Bookis 55 Letters 56 Religion 52 Business 23 Living Southafrica 7 Guide 49 Sport 47 Jgducation 51 Medicine 36 World/Check 11 Entertainment 45 Mining & Finance 26 VOTE 28 NEWS/CHECK 12 MARCH 1965 A NEW BREED It growls for the men ... purrs for the ladies It's a sports car, a family car, a fun car, a light car, a very good looking car... and it doesn't cost all that much either. You'll find that it's the roomiest car at its price in South Africa... yet it turns on a tickey, picks its way neatly through the tightest traffic. And performance? This new breed growls for the men... purrs for the ladies... performs the way you'd expect a sports car to perform. Come on in and judge for yourself. IMUXHALL ifii/a SUILT BY GENERAL MOTORS. PORT ELIZABETH. THE LARGEST PRODUCER OF MOTOR VEHICLES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA NEWS/CHECK 12 MARCH 1965 NEWS/CHECK ON SOUTHAFRICA AND AFRICA SOUTHAFRICA HARBOURS The quays of fhe kingdom At first sight, the length of South- africa's 1,836-mile-long coastline gives the country almost unlimited access to BUILDING TANKER BASIN, CAPETOWN the sea, and, via the sea, to foreign You load 375,000 tons . and where do you get? countries and continents. Yet para­ doxically, because of its evenness and each solution raises its own problems reduce railage rates on these Eastern the lack of shelter for vessels, the in turn, and which combination will Province lines to the level of the coast acts as an almost impenetrable give the quickest and best results is the Durban/Johannesburg line. And it barrier. Natural ports, such as Durban, subject of speculation only. would certainly have a more immediate are the narrowest of gaps in the con­ Still berth. First objection is the cost. effect. For the Richards Bay plan, if fining surf, and attract most of the Transport Minister Ben Schoeman it ever comes to fruition, is still a long goods streaming in and out of the recently announced that Richards Bay, way off. As Karl Challoner (80), doyen Republic. Others, like Capetown, have on the Natal North Coast, was being of the forty-strong Richards Bay com­ been built up from the bare beach at investigated as a possible site for a munity, commented when asked about vast expense. With the enormous in­ harbour. It would have many advan­ his reaction to having a big bustling crease in trade to and from Southafrica tages, and could serve Natal's coal and harbour on his hitherto-quiet doorstep: in recent years, the available ports iron industries, as well as the agricul­ "I'm not doing anything until we are required to handle greater and tural areas of both northern Natal and know what's happening. In any case, greater quantities of traffic. The num­ the eastern Transvaal efficiently. It I don't suppose it will be in my time." ber of goods trucks pouring into would cost, however, between RlOOm Durban, for instance, has risen by over and R120m. The finance bogey could ORGANISATIONS 10% in only two years. But while the be slain easily enough, but other public flow rushing through them has in­ projects (example: the Orange River OK-ing the Bond scheme) would be slowed down.