NORTHERN EDITION • 8,000 KILLED • 28,000 IN PRISON • A NATION Registered at tn* ENSLAVED Oeneral Post Office as a Newspaper ADVANCE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1953 PRICE 3d. Kenya Balance > " GROUP AREAS W M l& P ' Sheet After One m m m FLOPS IN Year’s Fighting LONDON. X>RITAIN reached the first anniversary of the Kenya “emergency” TRANSVAAL last week^ with the African resistance by the Kikuyu out of control and with no end to the military operations and no solution JOHANNESBURG. in sight. This was the official admission despite the fact that in the past year some 8,000 Africans have been killed, 28,000 are in •T'HE attempt of many municipalities in the Transvaal plat- prisons and hundreds of thousands are being fenced into controlled teland to expel local Indian communities to undeveloped camps. areas a mile or more away in the veld, has on the whole The anniversary was “celebrated” liberation movement will come from been a dismal failure. by the announcement of the most the British taxpayer. extreme .fascist measures seen any­ In four of the five areas which to be reported to the Minister, and where since the end of the Second EUROPEANS TO GET HELP applied for group areas, the hearing Lydenburg’s has already been re­ World War—confiscation of all Lt. Gen. K. S. Thimayya, India’s has been indefinitely postponed: Ly- jected. African property in the case of men The only positive step to be taken chairman of the Neutral Nations denburg, Carolina, Balfour and considered by the British authori­ by the Kenya authorities will be to Commission, supervising the ex­ Wolmaransstad. Carolina and Bal­ A feature of all the schemes thus ties to be “leaders”; permanent develop European agriculture and change of prisoners under the armis­ four councils withdrew their far has been the complete lack of exile of the African resisters with­ (Continued on page 6) tice agreement in Korea. schemes. Nylstroom’s plan has yet humanity and fairness in the anti- out hope that they will ever be al­ Indian proposals. Plans have been lowed back to theii Lomelands; per­ put forward to uproot the Indian manent abolition of Kikuyu schools people from their homes, no matter which will never be allowed to ope­ how long they have been there, no rate again. In addition, the police matter what the cost and hardshio and military will be given still involved to the Indian community. greater powers to hunt down and In their zeal for apartheid, the crnsh the resisters, and the control New Move to Fight advocates of these plans have of the movement of Africans will conceded that they have no other be tightened and maintained “for moral justification than the desire many years to come”. to preserve the privileges of the These savage provisions were an­ European population, if necessary nounced by the Governor, Sir Eve­ at the expense of all other sec­ lyn Baring, opening the budget ses­ Trade Union Bans tions of the community. sion of the Legislative Council. He revealed that the Kenya Govern­ All the schemes proposed for the ment is virtually bankrupt and un­ JOHANNESBURG. Transvaal platteland towns have rpHE FIGHT AGAINST THE BANNING OF TRADE UNION AND OTHER LEA­ shown a startling similarity. This is able to cope with the situation. The mostly due to the work of the money for repressing the African DERS BY MINISTER OF JUSTICE SWART ENTERED A DYNAMIC NEW Minister’s “Planning and Refe­ PHASE THIS WEEK. rence” Inter-Departmenal Commit­ • Seventeen trade unions tee, which makes recommendations ■to the Land Tenure Board on be­ have decided to establish action half of the Government. committees to prepare for a WART WlwL NOT BE campaign against the bans un­ LEGAL WORK der the co-ordination of the An additional factor, however, is ABIE TO AOORESS US S.A. Trades and Labour Coun­ the work of certain “legal experts” AS HE B A N N tD cil. 3n the Group Areas Act who have (Continued on page 2) IN • Father Trevor Huddle­ ston has proposed the establish­ ment of a broad committee re­ presenting the T.L.C., the La­ bour and Liberal Parties, the When Non-European Congresses, the Churches, the Torch Comman­ do, etc. to conduct a widespread NERVE educational campaign against the bannings and work towards the calling of a representative PAINS national convention to consider practical steps to assist the victims. strike! Mag-Aspirin is better. Its double • The Bishop of Johannes­ action gives quick, safe relief. burg the Right Rev. Ambrose It calms nerve shock, gently Reeves, and former Secretary soothes away the pain in the for Labour, Mr. Ivan Walker, affected nerves and restores health-giving sleep. Thousands have issued grave warnings that of sufferers have found Mag- the Nationalists’ actions will re­ Aspirin the ideal treatment for sult in the destruction of free painful conditions like headache, bladder pain, earache, toothache, trade unionism. so re throat, sleeplessness and EXTRAORDINARY rheumatic pains. Father Huddleston, in his state­ ment, expresses “serious anxiety at the manner in which the Minister of mflo-nspiRin Justice is using his extraordinary is not ordinary aspirin powers under the Suppression of Mag-Aspirin Powders, 2/- per box. Also Communism Act to exclude mem- r a u ib k is Tablets at 2/6 at all chcmlsts and stores. (Continued on page 2) 2 ADVANCE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1953 NKRUMAH EXPELS WORKERS’ Clarion Call GROUP AREAS FLOPS The Plight of the Coloured IN TRANSVAAL LEADERS T7~ATIE Hendricks9 book “The Bend in the Road”, which has been (Continued from page 1) published in South Africa by Howard Timmins, should be read by set themselves the task of “selling” all interested in the situation and attitudes of the Coloured people in this to rural town councils the idea of country. eliminating Indian business competi­ “The Bend in the Road” is not a great piece of writing. There is tion. Alarmed By Events in little in the way of “style”, no purple passages, no carefully studied Most of the schemes were with­ character-drawing, no skilfully woven plot. And yet it is'a book which, drawn, however, when found to once started, the reader cannot lay down. be unworkable, or so patently un­ just as to be intolerable even to Guiana?. It tells the story of a Coloured girl’s growth to maturity, of her the conscience of the local autho­ LONDON. relations with her African father and Coloured mother, of her reactions rity. In some cases evidence was rilH E Gold Coast Premier, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, last week came to her environment in District 2 and District 6 in Cape Town, of the led that the European Residents out in extreme right-wing nationalist colours when he suspended perpetual struggle of the Coloured people against poverty and hardship, themselves were not in favour of two important African leaders from membership of his Convention of skollies and bergies and the world of liquor, moral delinquency and the removal of the Indians from People’s Party on the grounds that they were associated with the violence. It sounds pretty grim reading, but it isn’t. Katie Hendricks their midst. World Federation of Trade Unions. doesn’t preach and she doesn’t get excited. She simply relates what hap­ The collapse of the Government’s pens in a dry, matter-of-fact prose which is never distorted by bitterness. plans must be regarded, however, This action confirms the rapid him, including town councillors, lo­ The result is a piece of realistic writing such as we haven’t had in as only a temporary reprieve. So drift of the Gold Coast leader to cal branch leaders and others who have, according to him, acted in a South Africa before. One can say, when laying the book down, “Well, long as the Group Areas Act re­ establish himself in a position of this is the way the Coloured people live”. It is authentic, frank. mains on the Statute Book, further personal dictatorship in the C.P.P. manner contrary to the Party inte­ attacks on the Indian community and in the Gold Coast;. A long series rests. Some of them had contested Katie Hendricks describes herself as a dark-skinned Coloured. She can be exoected. of suspensions has been enforced bv civic elections without his approval. married an African and went to live with him in Rhodesia, where eventually she found peace from the ferocious strain of life in the Cape. FATE OF DICTATORS Not all Non-Europeans can be as lucky as Katie, who after all was an Discontent against Nkrumah’s lea­ educated woman who knew her own mind and seized her opportunity dership has been mounting recently when it presented itself to her. For most there is no escape from the NEW MOVES TO FIGHT in the Gold Coast. The Ashanti Pio­ life of sordid squalor depicted in her book. neer, published by moderate African opinion in Kumasi, warned the Pre­ It is only when the slums and the poverty have been wiped out and mier that the fate of dictators was the colour bar abolished that all will be able to share peace and freedom. an uncertain one and reminded him TRADE DNION RANS of the end of Mussolini and Hitler. The two latest suspensions from Freedom in Central Africa? convincing evidence that the ob­ (Continued from page 1) the C.P.P. were of Mr. Anthony npALKING about peace in Rhodesia, it is not only Katie Hendricks jective is to punish the individuals Woode, member of the Legislative bers of trade unions, the Non-Euro­ concerned not for legal offences A who thinks the promised land lies on the other side of the Limpopo.