T jX MANUFACTURED IN SOUTH AFRICA . ------ i£_3__ :__■ í í í v s 'v í V v : btillg «'ll ^under iy1' i floor|»-| . ‘like something m in the films’ I ... ■ u COURT REPORTER : A STILL with 11 vat» holding 500 gallons of illicit j - Vv‘ . --- ■ liquor was built in an underground chamber beneath ■- > ■/:: a house in Vrededorp, a Johannesburg magistrate was ■ ■{* told yesterday. S'-*'* ' *" • little weaker than ordinary brandy. I ' Ho Then, 58, a shop assistant, of Ho said in court that he ha.d set I Twenty-sixth Street, Vrededorp, up the equipment “as an expert-[ was fined a total of £200 (or one ment.” year) for possessing an unlicensed The magistrate, Mr. D. J. van I still and manufacturing taxable Schalkwyk, said: “This was high I liquor. capacity production—like some-1 r:. f ' ■■ w ; Mr. Pieter Retlef Erlank, an thing we see in films. Some of I ' - t i ' - ,; í ;: >’ -■ ' ■ - ■ ^ inspector from the Department of the people who drank it might | Customs and Excise, said that he have suffered injury.” V.': ■ J.f . ' went to the house on December The £200 fine was paid. 5M; 29. 1 Mr. C. H. ran Wyk prosecuted. "I found an underground room j underneath the house, with a steel pot, copper piping, an oil drum, ' Rv.j.v • nine vats with a 36-gallon capacity each, yeast, and wire baskets. HOLE IN WALL Mg • v ■" ' • . v- L I gained entrance to the room !by climbing through a cupboard, | crawling through a hole in the . wall, and climbing down a step I ladder.” The vats contained 500 gallons of illicit brew, said Mr. Erlank. In ^ the house were 40 quart bottles of spirits labelled gin, 31 quart : ' V 4' ' bottles and six imperial quarts of - • ‘ . ' . >'-y- - . - spirits labelled brandy. The brandy was 36.3 underproof—a ; ■ - . ■ ■ - . ‘ . •> . • • . - • H •. •',? • *... ■ V i . 7 ^ 1 ■ f t • -... - -■ *• . _; , » ý v .. -- .;ii, . /y. -a * * • :. -1. • . r- . 'MM- i . &' 'i w• l i': : ^ ' m ? " 1 l j! I. ' : : '. c •;>’/ -v “‘-.1 -• ■ , * . - -.. y. • .... X ÏÏ*. I 1 aiS- V i ;5i* gf- rife ' ■ . .••jr ___ jCiOrtV TuftggPLANS - A l-RACIAL PARLIAMENT Clear-cut statement of Federation policy Power will be retained by Whites in foreseeable future From STANLEY UYS ’ 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.