£ 7 * <> t \ Population figures show apartheid has failed Black■ increaseB ^ 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 aiani cwiionuueconomic pumtpoint orof 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 wouldy 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.