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TIIE HERRENVOLK ideology is upheld by the average white man all over the v. world, and all our legislators fall in this class. We have always resented the airy nothings of trusteeship pol­icy that have been blurted out from governmental platforms for many years. It is Just another aspect of the same herrenvolkism of South Africa 3 hundred years old, right down to the Group

Areas Act,It is disappointing that in spite

of the oppressor's claims of advance­ment in culture, the arts and science, he has not learnt the one fundamental truth in his development of political philosophy, that people cannot be de­prived of their rights and be made to live on dreams for an indefinite per­iod. A people may be told that "time is not ripe" or that "they are not yet fit to rule themselves," And as they

advance the oppressor may continue to feed them on this saw-dust, and go on whittling away their right s , *

But time soon comes when even batons, bullets, tear gas, kicks and insults cannot make them ac­cept all the trusteeship tall s stories can whisper or shout out abroad. Things as they stand in this mother Africa indicate that time has come. The bent birch tree either breaks or shoots back with great force when it has reached its limit under great strain. True to type, the oppres­sor is cuddling warmly in his "safe" political shell, and tells himself that he does not want to see the grave present, the inner currents of our development and the awakening of Africa.

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IT MAY BE INEVITABLE one day to have £™ u| ™ ine uotlJ e reotlesenega on the African continent o ^ ; t^r xon^ tyrant in Africa calls

identical with that in "agitation” , with that American dia, Indonesia, and China, wher- the b 9™ eeration opressor has had to pack and quit. l0V* 0f^ * hJs oppression, the

Once people understand clearly ooprQssor tfill refer to the chaos that they are oppressed and how and y nznally follows the oppressors

whom they are ■oppresseJ, it Is evacuation or ejectment. This is atively easy to unit- them and hav inevitaDle, hut after that the them easily throw off th- yoke of op people ars ln a position to deter- pression. All the leader n~-ds ju their destiny, and that dest- clear vision and large £®s®rv®f ° h iny often brings about prosperity, stamina for suffering which snail ^ would appear the oppressor pre­crowned with the success it deserves f erg ejectment to improving living

in the end. conditions and the status of the Internal Dissension. underdog.

Tribal and l i t e r a c y differences s t a t o r s ,should not be over-emphasised ^ frequent and distasteful us-ha'rm in this over-exaggeration -i~s _ ^ 0ppressor and his pressin driving the organisers and leaders ^ word "agitator" in refer-into a dangerous despondency. 6U e n c e to those who fight oppressionlible imagine such differences to m ^ demand betters things, showsinsurmountable barriers to the uiui clearly the oppressor's frightened mate goal of freedom. The oppressor s a^1:l1:ade towards the growing numberpropaganda system through his Pr®ss 0f politically conscious Non-Euro-can be commended for having had .his p3an masses. The connotation of theeffect on the people in the past. in- lg obviougly 'iit0 stir up sflc-struggles and successes of other ^ upheavai f0r its own sake."peoples elsewhere should however pro Thus the men who are fighting forvide an object lesson for us. . better things are pictured as a

Ractionaries you shall always have delinquents who want chaosamong you. In spite of differences Qwn gake. wh0 should there

between the Arabs and the fore be persecuted by deportation,latter did not stop their fight a banishment and imprisonment. Thatagainst the British. Despite th- myr ^ way Qf th0 despot #iad tribal and religious differences Tq ^ 0Dpregsea, an''agitator11in India, the Indians did not larcer ^ who fights the honorable and in their stand against British oppre s- „hteous battle against injustice,sion and exploitation. The ideologi- 0ppress0r, any Non-Europeancal differences in Indones:la ha ye not ^ knovie he is hungry, poor, nakeddisheartened the side that fights for phelterless j_s an "agitator". Butfull rights of citizenship. For "jany whlle the oppressor grits his teethyears Nationalist China fought the &nd spitg spiteful names on thefollowers of A m e r i c a n - d o l l a r - d o p e d slave, the growing contingent ofChiang Ki-Shek to convince them of radical and progressive thinkerstheir right to be free, mentally and are sounaing the clarion from onet>hvsically, in their own land. The^ tl of African continent to the same selfish motives of vested foreign 0tkQr . The dark voices of Africa in'-^r^ts have treoiwit&ted the Korean are merging, and we must marc-j on.situation. The* state of affairs in ■ ,each of these countries has been (Sub-Editorial on opposite j^age,

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The A .B .C . of Getting; Drunk

In December last a-re port came that Lu­saka (N. Rhodesia) has now a wine shop for Africans, regarded In some quarters as a "bold venture", What amuses me Is the speeches at the official opening.B. M. Waugh, District Commissioner;"You should treat wine with respect be­cause you do not know anything about it. You cannot drink wine like vou drink besr. . . " ( What bad Engliek.')John Gaunt, Director of African a Col­oured Affairs: "Some Europeans do not approve of this.wine shop, and Natives must prove that they are ready todrink European beer and w ine," ---Those two officials spoke as though t they had long been in the liquor traf­fic, and had been training "the Native#" in the art of drinking European beer and wine. Now they must show that they're ready.1 From what I often see in Market St, opposite the City Hall, -the privileged superior class walk­ing on air , wading through water that's not there as they grope their way out in spite of the mighty size of the exit I now begin to understand why one should "be ready" for it first . But I wish the Rhodefcianfl lots of luck, as I'm not an abstainer myself. Doesn't the I .O .T .T . say you should drink but do it moderately? There can 't be temperance when there 1 s nothing to be

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New Words for Old .

Why do tourists like to s&y India Is a "country of contrasts," or Cairo is "a city of contrasts, 11 or South Africa is "a country of contrast"? As far as

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I 'm concerned thi?re 's nothing on earth

that doesn't have contrast. I f you visited Mars, nobody would be surprised to hear you say: "Mars is a place of contrasts." We're now fed up of such worn-out stock phrases. Give us some­thing new, like "Malan's Cabinet is one of sim ilarities ;" "the Nationalist Republic is one of incongruities;""the Native Affairs Dept, is one of insanities;" "when Donges rides the Karoo on his donkeys Group Area and Mixed Marriages, it is a trio of sim­ilar contrasts; 11 etc. See my way?

Pil£.r-lm'e Prcgreag?

A fellow calling himself "Pilgrim*1 in THE STAR got himself into a bog of words the other day when he tried to show that Verwoerd's use of the word "Bantu" for "Nat­ive" is wrong. After tearing across the veld and spluttering with tongue twisters, he out- spanned at the place of pilgrim- mage by saying: "It is equally foolish to speak of a "Bantu man" Say a "native" man or woman,"— Stop trying to be smart, mani We are neither the Afrikaner Bantu nor the English Native; we are AFRICANS. Even the native product of Stoffberg Gedenkskool will tell you that,'

XXxxx xxxxx xxxxx Id io ts ' Corner.What's been happening to the mem­bers of the South African Bureau of Racial Affairs recently? It appears they do not find the pol­itic ian 's version of apartheid workable without an entire break­down of the country's economy,— -“I t 's a golden ru le ," says Mr, Politician. "Always get your theory argued ou.t by professors and profassor-doctors: if it doesn't work, you can always tell the world that i t 's still under close study; i f it succeeds,you can always say: You see, we and our professors told you so,' That way, your theory at once becomes an intellectual concept, not mere­ly what the world think it Is, which it is not, but would be if it were not what it is, because it must be, - Oh what am I saying. But voters are idiots; they al­ways clap hands for you when they don't understand you. Remember the White Bread epic in Boy, there's nothing to beat an Afrikaner k$rel when others are

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"Two of the fixe Native convictswho escaped.. .were recaptured --

News Item. flE0d whom,

•* T r~p*.116 SC HOO-LI AS T IR 1S M 'rsz 56o_..

SRY SCHOOLS at Orlando, the Anglican Church Mis-

EZ2&o f ~the: six nurjfour belong to sion.

There is Dikonyaneng at Orlando East, which accommodates 235 children under 4 qualified teachers, almost 60 to a teacher, which must mean that they are overworked. But then the governments of South Africa have never regarded establishment of nursery scnools for Non-Europeans as a State recoonsibility.

At Orlando West there are three Anglican nursery schools: St. Nicholas,Margaret Porter, and Vivian Barry,Tnere is one other, und^rthe Child. Welfare Society;^ Tj j LITTLE'ONES'"* In each of the missionary

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seen the lust for life in those sadly happy eyes, the more I have felt , with a bitter pang, how crim-

, - ,00 00 schools there are 4-0 child- A

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& T A U G H T *ren and 1 qualified teacher.

Eighteen students from Dikonyaneng come to do their practical work at the Orlando West schools.

Although these schools cannot take in more children than there are now,

and the total number of 335 I s mu°h too small in proportion to the Orlando West population alone, the schools ful­fil a great and divine purpose.

African women are compelled by poverty to go out to work. They are away from home from 6 o ’clock a.m . to 7 p.m. every work-day. One need only enter Shanty Town to observe the sor- . did life children lead in that squalid settlement: a veritable setting for crime, disease, death, destruction, and general moral ruin. What kind of men and women are these innocent little creatures of circumstance destined to be? No, that is beyond the dim horizon of human conjecture. Here you see at close quarters the cold, calculating, ruthless hand of oppression killing away young life as soon as it enters

this world.

inal it is to do all one can to blight and destroy that robust de­sire to live, as the government is doing. I say criminal, and am not being emotional.

The average white man earns enough to be able to equip a room expressly as a nursery for his children. The walls are full of drawings, the floor is strewn with toys. The house is also big en­ough to allow for this. The child-

ren are thus kept off the the streets, and even if there may be no nursery sclaool nearby, the child­

ren get a good start. Today a European child may begin

school at 5 years of age. The law makes it compulsory for Europeans to keep children in school until theyre at least 1 6 . I f they do have to leave school at 1 6 , they'll have at least obtained the Junior Certificate .

There is an enormous wastage of child life among Non-Europeans. One day the situation-will become too complicated to be managed.For every 1 ,000 children we shall find that 1 child only can read and write his name and address.Then woe unto us allj

Some time ago I said something about backward children and how they are neglected. I am inviting articles discussing these and oth­er points of interest in our education. Will you write about 300 words and send your article to me through the Editor, P .O . Box £>£>90, Johannesburg?

Against this background, then, it cannot be difficult to appreciate the value of nursery school work. I re­member vividly how moved I was when­ever I have seen the modest, unassum­ing and patient way the teachers and and student-teachers have with th

I T U A R YG©uy jj*'y 0________ ___________©We, particularly of the teaching ©world., mourn sincerely the death of ©of Mr. Steven Mphahlele, who didd ©in Baragwanath Hospital on Monday©5th February, 1951. Mr. Mphahlele

ttijw- suuauiiu . - --- ©was supervisor of schools for overlittle lovable creatures, ranging f r o m ^ ^ g ^ ^ y^ars after he had taught for 2 to 6 years of age. The more I have kabnut as many years.

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AFFAIRSTOWNSHIP

UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT.

0 , a*G’ is now unc'’-er new manage- m^.it, and many of us who were suffic­iently observant know that it was a mere question of time before there would be a change of management. I

, had always been the strongest critic of Mr, S. S. Ntombela, the former secretary/organise^, for his general lack of Enterprising spirit and advertising ability .

ihe first Annual Founders 1 Day on November 1 0 , 19 ^9 , had b.en a hope­less flop for the same reason; lack of publicity. Granted that there was shortage of funds and therefore staff a man of initiative and enterprise could have done better. The good thing about the former secretary was his attitude towards the people; he ind an approachable and engaging

manner with him.

The Donaldson Centre is now under

!r>, J * ,R‘ Rathebe of B .M .S .C . and— o-id, C , *i, fame. The change is notice—

CS S in ?hs iraproved Cleanliness of ti±G premises, ive learn from reliable sources that' a sub-committee appointed By.the Loard of Trustees to investi­gate the possibility of expanding the activities of the Centre to include family reconstruction inquired into the activities of this Centre, and recommended to the board of Trustees that Mr. S. Nto/nbela be asksd to resign, and the Y .M .C .A . be asked to

f ^ R a t h e b e (who was,incidentally, a member of the sub­committee)

The reason advanced by this sub­committee in connection with theformer secretary was that of incompet­ence. ^

In the meantime the membership h have received these changes with mixed feelings. Some are for the change.

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others against, and others again are indefferent, On the whole everybody seems to have expected the change. There are petition­ers^ seeking to know from the Chairman of the Board of Manage­ment what the position is ,as there has not been any formal announcement to the membership about these changes.

Mr. J . R, Rathebe is a great liberal social figure who has profound experience in social work of this kind. We do not know how long he had an eye on this post, i f he had at a i ;,a n d we do not know if he will succeed In the^ interests of the Orlando Community, we wish him all the luck, and we hope he will, be approachable and enterprising,

" RUSSIANS11 MAKE MISflHTTTTP,

A §rPuP of wont-worka in Jabavu and Newclare has been engaged in causing trouble. They commit most assaults in these locations at night. They move about in gangs of men wrapped in black blankets and attack anybody without provocation. Because of their activities, innocent blanketed Basotho folk have been blamed, and to clear themselves they have in turn taken up arms against the energetic "Russians" This resulted in a faction

fight the cause of which some people may attribute to tribal differences; but this would be absolutely incorrect. The*

"Russians" have also several times come into clashes with "tso ts is ".

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perhaps the two m o s t 2 ‘ — fl 1B-iraportant features of South African labour policy are migrant labour and the industrial colour bar. A stable find contented labour unit works against the interests of migrant lab­our, which is the best for the Chamer of Mines, and there is a wide gap be­tween the European and Non-Buropean proletariat: the former are concentrat­ed in the skilled and semi-skilled, and the latter in the unskilled labour markets.

Native Labour Regulation Act. 1911 : passed flto regulate the recruiting and employment of Native labour and to pro­

vide for compensation to Native labour­ers in certain areas ." A'Native lab­ourer' is defined by the Act as a native" who accepts or is recruited

for .employment on "mines" or"worksn. Agreements have also been made by the Union with Basutoland, Bechuanaland, Swaziland, South-West Afrioa, Portu­guese E .A ., Nyasaland, N. Rhodesia, whereby thousands of Africans can be recruited from these territories for mines here The Act makes sure that contracts (which invariably favour the white man) shall be kept, and penal­ties stipulated for "defaulters".Migrant labour is thus sanctioned by law.

Industrial Conciliation Act, lqpll.. amplified in 1937, provides for "the registration and regulation of trade unions and employers' organisations, for the prevention and settlement of disputes between employers and employ­e e s . . . " Employee, under the Act, ex­cludes pass-bearing Africans. There­fore African trade unions cannot be registered, and thus we cannot bargain with our employers. Furthermore, in­dustrial strikes by Africans are 11— legal,

Mines and Works Act. 1926 - the "Colour Bar Act", whereby Africans can­not get certificates of e ‘ ~

O ' C Rbeing reserved for

whites^ Coloureds, Malays, and St. Helena "natives".only.

Wage Act, 1925. revised in 1937 - to provide machinery by which min­imum wages and working conditions can be put down for Industries where labour is unorganised, ex­cluding agriculture and domestic service, although labour in the latter two classes is most difficult to organise. In spite of the 19 5 wage determinations for over 300000 lower-paid employees, there is a c.istinction between black and white* thus keeping down our purchasing

power and allowing prodigious pro­fits for the employers.

Native Servloe Contract Act.1932- under which no person may employ any male African of any age who does not live in the Union; and no government. . o fficial may issue to any African any pass or other simi­lar dooument to enable such person to go to any place other than his home, unless the African produces a document of identification pre­scribed by regulation, of which the African is holder. Under this Act the system of squatting on Euro­pean farms is dispensed with, so that an African can be on a white nan's farm only as labour tenant who pays for the plot he occupies with his labour, Including his fam­i l y 's . The effect of these con­tracts is to make us carry passes for all time, and to ensure that we keep working for the white man in order to keep the passes on us, which must be produced when demand­ed for by the police. The State gets a good haul of revenue from thousands of convictions under the pass laws.

Apprenticeship Aot, 19P 3 r revised 19^4. This Aot ensures a more or .1f^® .jtab le supply of .UUS

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Although it does not stipulate "hat S S p e a h s may not become apprent­

ices in sKilled trades like printing,

engineering* motor,the apprenticeship committees

sex*up by the Minister of Labour ffigt

co-s^et of peoole who will shut tn~ aoor'to non-Whites, Besides, v w £ « * T'-'v-Suro Deans reach Sod, I I I ,

t .?,ae unions influence employers flireotly or 'indirectly against apprent­i c i n g non-whites ; and technical train-

in1-’ centres are also clos.o. u .' p . Compensatlon_Act, 19zL«

r •';p:T7 -,tion "for physical disablement dvriuH^orlc is paid to African* though the Native Affairs Departm ent . The loW 'ansndinc Act included domestic servants, workers in agriculture or

hitherto excluded. But em-

cJr-W^a need only insure vql\^t^ri_X the fund on b e h a l f of such rf°r -

er- Africans receive a lump sum 10C4 disablement equal to 30 times m-fthlv wages up to £20 per month, lb tim&e above £20, with a minimum of ^ 0 ar d maximum of £ .600 , Europeans g

0f wages up to £20 p.m. plus 7 b

n- remainder up to £33.bs .Sd . p.m. to 66/two-thirds per cent, of wages and

^TJ4) r e s p e c t i v e l y .3 *gat i v e _ ( j ^ n ^ £ a s l _ C o r ^ i | a t i ^ ,

\r*-~ t ciLK first passed in l ? ^ , i S ® ” il easy to administer "natives

S to register and. control

orr+-rnpts of service with Africans. “U S ™ s u p e r i n t e n d e n t and a manager

Of tton-EuropeansAffairs can p - _ ifv.ic--.ns from entering a location live there and look for work, and aan

Next month Naledi will deal * i . •

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remove them if in their opinion such persons are surplus -o the "reasonable labour requirements of the area. The control 0... entry into towns wil^ aiffays b- ineffective as long as form lao- our wages are low, ^s e rv e s ar . barren and therefore pr«/en , tne establishment of a prosperous

peasantry.TTnam^loyment I nguraH0 , ,

igllbT This Act now excioae,^ a.1.1 workers who earn less than aocuu £1 S2 a year, which vircua^.y excludes the majority ot A ^ .c a n s Before this limitation cam- force, the great number w.ic rj*o. already paid in to the insurance fund over a number 01 yj-XxZt Thus workers who earn less than

£152 lost all their ™,noy.In tvich a state O x a,, x airs.

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Europeansthey and t need to go

nevPr irtr jhat

heir children will ever r reftx want 0 1 a

good, secure" TOO, or tt!»t they will ever be swamped out of a lob by an overwhelming number of Africans. But how long will i t

last?Even the new Native building

Workers B ill , which pretends to encourage Africans to become skilled builders and con orators, makes sure that the white man shall never have to compete «ath a skilled African worker. If the African worker were in a recog nised trade union, there would never be need to fear that would take on a joo for less th a European. The poor^whites and unskilled whites have been given

* room by the civilized labour policy to take up jobs tne op- oresso1” would normally regar-t as

«the l i f f l r 's w r i < . « »

man must, on

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in fear of constant In- for himself anu family; a fixed hem, without a

income.

the other hand., live. jrlty wi t.nou t .table

(The following le -an extract from current data concerning British, French and Belgian Colonies in Africa, published in the November 1950 issue of NEW AFRICA, the monthly bulletin of the Council ofl African Affairs in New York. This is published by kind permission of the Council. --EDITOR)

SOME EXAMPLES OF COLONIAL STATUTES SUPPRESSING CIVIL LIBERTIES.

NIGERIA; Section 3S o>f the Police Ordinance, cap 172, Vol. V, Laws ofNigeria, 19^-3, states: "Any assembly which takes place without a

licence shall be deemed to be an unlawful assembly, and all persons taking part in such assembly shall be liable to imprisonment for one year." Under this regulation the chairman of the Jos Branch of the National Emergency Committee was arrested and charged with conducting an assembly in a priv­ate home in Jos on June 16 , 1950.

KENYA: Under Section 53 Q? Kenya Penal Code the Governor in Councilhas absolute discretion to prohibit the importation of any publica­

tion where he consiers it would be contrary to the public interest.

Legislation introduced this year gives the existing Kenya law on sedition application to the whole of British East Africa instead of only Kenya, making it possible to prosecute a case of sedition in one territory on the ground of causing disaffection in another territory. Additional power is provided enabling the government to confiscate printing presses and other machinery producing seditious material.

UGANDA: In 19^-$ the Uganda Press Law laid down a system of compulsoty cor­rection of falsehoods. In 19 -9 amendments to the penal code made

incitement a criminal offence, whether the act is committediTor not; added penalties against the crime of giving false information; and curbed the collection of funds by organizations.

Sub-section 1 , Art. 25, of the Uganda Order in Council of 1902 states: "Where it is shown by evidence on oath, to the satisfaction of the Governor that any person is conducting himself so as to be dangerous to peace and good order in Uganda, or is endeavouring to excite enmity between people of the Protectorate and His Majesty, or is intriguing against His Majesty's power and authority in the Protectorate, the Governor may, if he thinks fit, by order under his hand and official seal, order that person to be de­ported from the Protectorate to such place as the Governor may d irect ." Sub-section 3 provides that such a deportation order is not subject to appeal.

The Police (amendment) B ill of 1950, passed by the Uganda Legislative Council provides, among other restrictions, that no more than 250 persons may assemble in a gagetted area without special permission.

An ordinance drafted this ye^r by the Attorney-General of Uganda em­powers the courts to sentence "habitual criminals" to "preventive detention" of from five to fourteen years, in addition to any sentence of imprisonment imposed for a specific cri.^e.

SOME ORGANISATIONS OUTLAWED IN COLONIAL AFRICA. •

Zikist Movement, Nigeria, outlawed in April, 1950 Kikuyu Central Association, Kenya, proscribed since 19^0,Dini ya Msambwa, Kenya. In recapturing Lucas Kipkech, a leader of this

movement who had escaped from prison, police last April met with resist­ance from his followers, and opened fire killing 20 Africans, including Kipkech. Three Europeans officials and one African policeman in the arresting party were also killed . (The Crown Colonist, Feb. 1950, - -

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reported 6 members of the same organisation Jailed in Uganda. They were said to be found praying for "strength to drive the Europeans out

of East j f rioa^ jMau Mau Association, Kenya. "Mau Mau" means "very quickly". The declared

aim of the Association is to "chase the Europeans ouc of Konya",African Farmers' Union, Uganda. Cotton lying in stores belonging to this

Union was confiscated and turned over to an official receiver in May 194$. I t 8 president, Ignatius Kangov Muzusi, notified in London last*August by the British Colonial Secretary that he, Muzasi, would face imprisonment or banishment if he returned to Uganda,

Bataka Pary, Uganda, Its leader, Semakula Mulumba, is also exiled in Lon­don. In March, 194-9, shortly before the outbreak of disturbances during which 1 ,435 Africans (o fficial figures) were arrested, the Bataka pet­itioned the Kabaka (King) of Buganda to dismiss certain ministers and saza chiefs and provide for an immediate increase fcn the number of el­ected members of the Lukiko (Assembly)

Kibangisma, Belgian Congo, outlawed by the Governor of the Kasai Province on the grounds that it "meaaced peace and public order."

Ntutu, Belgian Congo, dissolved by the Governor of the Kfcvu Province on the

same grounds.Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Belgian Congo, outlawed by an ordinance

January 12, 194-9. Mme. R. Debotte was ordered deported from the Bel­gian Congo after being sentenced to a month and a half imprisonment for

belonging to this society.Le Ressemblement Democratique Africain (African Democratic Rally), French

West Africa. All gatherings and meetings of this organisation were declared prohibited by order of the Council of Ministers in Paris on February 1, 1950, two days after police charged a large gathering in the market square at Dimokro, Ivory Coast, killing 10 persons anc. in­juring 50 others (official figures). The gathering was protesting con­tinued imprisonment of leaders of the R ,D ,A . jailed following disorders in January, 194-9, when 4-0 persons were killed and wholesale arrests of R .D .A . members were made. Similar protest demonstrations were smashed by the police in Grand-Bassam, Treichville, and other Ivory Coast

cities early in 195 °.

MUZZLING THE PRESS:Editors and/or publishers of the following newspapers have been arrest­

ed and sentenced on charges of sedition in 195®*

Accra Evening News, Gold Coast, August, for reprinting fr°m ,.^n . .1.,American Journal a four-paragraph article on the Gold Coast liberation

movement entitled AFRICANS SEEK FREEDOM.Cape Coast Dally Hail an& Accra Evening Nawg« Gold Coastf January* aharged

uftd'ep tht Mailin' %ite £wernmsnjfc',a aaargancy r*%&lng:•Wo M r s M shall m y act p«kii«k anything likely to twlfcg Intohatred or contempt or excite disaffection against the Government. 1

Service Press Limited, Nigeria, for printing an editorial entitled V/E W£NT

TO REMOVE THIS GOVERNMENT. . ^ . . . . . „Labour Champion, Nigeria, fined £265 for contempt of court for protesting

the severity of court sentence* and fined again for violating anordinance limiting collection of money when it levied trade union mem-bers to pay the fine. (Continued on 1st Column — bottom of Page lf-J

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MAUPASSANT: by

Francis Steegmuller(Collins, 12 /6) This book on Maup­assant, who by literary barometer is gauged as one of the best short story

writers who have ever lived, is an industrious research work bjr Francis Steegmullar. ' ' *

Maupassant, though one of the best short story writers of all times, had his prejudices and limitations. His life , it is generally; .accepted, was

tragic. Fate seems unkind to genius­es: (look at Mozart and Doniz&ttjr)- er-ding with a year of paralysis in an etylum. While the soul was still en­cased in its clay, and that was not for long, Maupassant used himself tip in work and pleasure.

Maupassant was the elder of two sons of an unsatisfactory marriage between a neurotic, strong-minded wo­man and a more ordinary man. Maupas­sant was & staunch disciple of Flau­bert, who gave him - about writing - some advice that made a deep impres­sion on him. He saw eye to eye with Zola abdut "naturalism11, a word he despised, but they were not tempera­mentally congenial to one another. Taine failed to persuade him to write more about the upper class, but the Bourget made more of an impression.At this time Maupassant had begun to frequent the rich and noble, so he wrote about high l i fe , but on the

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Zik^s Press Limited, Nigeria, for an a article commenting, among other

things, on the use of tear gas on women demonstrators during the Enugu riots.

Nigerian Northern Advocate for crit­icising the B ritish .Government.

It should also be noted that the Importation of several listed books, periodicals and newspapers published in Europe and the U .S .A . is prohibit­ed in the Belgian Congo and certain British colonies.

whole with little artistic success as compared with the extracainary mastery he showed in treating of peasants, country squires and the petty boureoudie of towns.

This great writer often behaved and talked like a brute. His theories about art and life were disappointing and difficult to understand when one learned that he had deep feeling.

Steegmuller's MAUPASSANT is a biography with not too much psy­chology; his judgment is worked in modestly with other people's.It is a book in the same strain as Ernest Newman's WAGNER. Steeg­muller rounds off his understand­ing o f ; and sympathy with, Maupas­sant 's ironies with four stories by the great master, which were not reprinted since they appeared in newspapers towards the close of the nineteenth century,

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HOOK. POOR FOR F.UBBISHI

The other night I Listened to the DBC programme - Variety Banci troy.One of the items ,,v.is rHfdered~l?y the Petersen brothers, a 3, African pair. One of them introduced the item by explaining that the "Nat­ives" in S. Africa like to learn English, and they often put Englioh words in their songs. They sang "January, February, March" as an example. Then they sang something about a Zulu boy getting drunk on Xmas morning and on Royal Visit, smoking opium and appearing before the magistrate. — These "brothers" ought to come in for a medal or two for helping te Water, Malan & Fellow-Liars Co. Ltd, for educat­ing oversea listeners about S. African -'natives". At this rate the world cannot be misinformed about conditions here. Having such rubbish in one's repertoire is bad, but selling it on a varie­ty stage is the lim it. Nor do'JS it speak well of the B ,B .C . ,who would buy rotten meat and cat it I

ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2^th, at a New York dinner held in honour of Dr,Ralph Bundle, head of the UNQ Trustee­ship Department, for receiving the UNO Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. Bunche is reported to have said : "Be friendly, not fatherly, to Africans ." And that is what we have always asked for, but instead a fatherly hand has been ex­tended, giving the impression that we are still a child people. Nonsense.'

We always assume that most whites are being caressed by the so-called "white" civilisation and superiority they so much boast of, and are being nurtfared by these "nice" things- denied us. But when we study their psycholo-

gy and. actions, we have good reason to conclude that some­thing is really want­ing in their circum­stances, or u p b r in g ­

ing and education which is essential to thinking more r/ith brawn than with blood. When you stop at most of the shops in town, the sales-girls have the*audacity to baptize you Mary, Annie Nannie or G irl. Some have the delib­erate cheek to suggest to you what is good for you as a "native g i r l ." I hate this attitude.

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are not thonoughly educated, not to speak of cultured. They regard education and culture as inevitable when one is white.The poor white who will call you names, "pall up her nose" at your sight, brush her frock when you unavoidably nrush against her in the street, swears at you when you say, "sorry , 11 live a sad contempt­ible l ife , savagely flirting with

s0 that we arebbound to ask: Which is man, and which is beast?

We really condemn the effusions of white women, norance is immensely annoying, at times we must pseay for them, pity their crudeness and vulgarity.

Amongwthese women are so-called "Christians", but they have not the noblest conception of their creed.. Theirs is mere religious pretence, the very height of blasphemy. By their words and actions they de­grade themselves, not us.

We do not want the paternalistic hand, that suggests we are a child people. We want friendly treat­ment, because we are a very friend­ly people. We respect white women, and we should like them to respect us: that's that.

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HOUSEWIVES' CORNER

Try this delicious recipfe for scones for have a lovely, appetising cream colour; and

Ingredients: 2 cups flour; 1 Hclsum

your afternoon tea. They the taste? -Appetite's delight

gg; 2 teaspoons Royal baking powder- k of salt; cup full milk; \ cup cold water.tablespoons Hclsum fat; pinch 2

Method: Sift flour, baking powder, salt. Add Hoisum fat and rub until well mixed. Beat egg thoroughly and mix with milk and water. Add all this to the dry ingredients. Mix the dough to a little soft mixture . Roll to about % inch thick, and cut into rings. Put into a moderate oven. Serve with jam.

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FOR ARTISTS Q U Y H E A R T..|t*S D E L I N K H Q ROR ARTISTS

GRAMOPHONE RECORD SOCIETY MAY DK . ffifi ANSWER By ORPHEUS

Or are y£a satisfied with the cultural famine? I am sure you have discovered, as I have, that there 13 greater pleasure in sharing a musical experience with

FOLLOWING ON MY PLEA in the last is­sue of this periodical, I should lifcfc to suggest the formation of a Gramo­phone Record Society to encourage the love of music or to enable those who love it to share with other musical souls the beauties, charms and thrills that go together with music. While this cannot be a satisfactory substit­ute for live performances, it would howe,ver be very satisfactory undb.r- the circumstances. The D .O .C .C . management would probably be only too happy to house such a Society, and such an ar­rangement would have various advantages for the Society.

The advantages of a Gramophone Soc­iety would be to enable music lovers to hear very good and artistically sat­isfying performances by great artists as often as they like . The organisers would merely need to prepare and ar­range programmes that would interest the membBrs. To start with, in com­piling the society's record lib rary ,/ members can lend discs to the Society until such time as the Society shell have levied themselves in a way they shall decide; to buy records that a sub-committee appointed for the pur­pose may decide on. This would elim­inate arduous preparations by artists to render music items, as in the past with/the last Music Society,

jtr.ers. Even though you may be in & privileged position that of hearing good music often, you may be mlesing a good deal of its charm by not sharing it with us.

xxxxx xxxxx XXxxx Composers 1 Names

The name/g of some composers are known to us in a shortened form instead of their original long forms. For instance, Felix Mendelssohn was Jacob Ludwig Felix Men del 3 s ohn-Dar t hoi dy j Weber was Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber; Gluck was Christoph W illibald Ritter von Gluck, and Mas&snfJL was Jules Emile Frederic Massenet, The fanciest combination was Giocomo Puccini's - comppser of MADAM BUTTERFLY and LA B3HEME. His full name was Giocomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini.! j

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a ' by Florence Blose a

H . HIt would® The Silences come trooping

a through the measures,g Small spaces 'twixt the running

rush 9f sound;

also eliminate the possibility 1 of artists failing to attend, and other

— the early8 ^ I

2serve a room, a night, and their turn­table for the SocietyAs use, What do you think of the. idea Mr. Mothopeng, Mr. Mohapeloa, Mr. Sentso, Mr. and Mrs. Liphuko*and Mr. Seth Mpbahlele,

You people have been closely as­sociated with the late Music Society and should therefore be in a position to know whom to contact and how to go

J&QJit .such 3 . .Socie ty;.

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Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy

dread,For he on honey-dew hath fed,And drunk the mild of Paradise,

---- Coleridge.

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" HOMOEOPATHY -— the m-st complete and scientific systemof healing the sick the world has ever

known." — — Cr. J . H, Clarke, M.D,

IT IS ALMOST IDLE TO STATE THAT ortho­dox medicine is not the last word in therapeutics, as any intelligent ob­servation of life sharws, though that august body has all the backing of the S State and Time, thanks to its trade

unions.Though little known or used in

this country, Homoeopathy is recognised and well known nearly the world over, especially in Germany (its original

home), England, France, Switzerland, U .S .A . ,

f Belgium, India, and S China. Homoeopathy is@ HOMOEOPATHY© baged on the Law of@ by ARETHUSAS Similars (Sim ilia

Sj.miiibus Curentur), and the Law of the Minimum Dose - mathematical and natural laws as old as une h ills . It was discovered in Germany by Hanneman, a liedico, 1^0 years ago, and has gone from strength ever since. Many things can be said for it , but none can be said against it; it has never been proved to be wrong. Homoeopathy is not a slave of fashion, because it never changes its methods or application yearly like many systems of medication . It is based on immutable laws, and has cured thousands of "incurable cases" which have defied all other methods of healing.

Today we have a galaxy of "incurable" diseases like Arthritis. Rheumatism, Heart Failure, Tuberculosis, Asthma, Diabetes, etc, to name only a few, and these have all been safely and ration­ally treated by Homoeopathy. Homoeo­pathy, let me hasten to add, does not cure diseases, but cures the whole patient. In Homoeopathy we do not care what label you give to any morbid con­dition of the body, mind or spirit, but the remedies used go straight to the root CAUSES, and these are removed. There are no palliatives in Homoeopathy. No Homoeopathic remedy is poisonous.The remedies are the biggest armament­arium in healing the sick (there are 1500 different types); they are the deepest acting and the most far-

reaching in action. Even serious epidemics such as diphtheria, influenza (which is ravaging Eng­land at the moment), infantile paralysis, etc. have been more permanently cured in a much short­er time than by any other method of healing known.

Homoeopathy jms no . spec if ic ^ 0 medicines, most of the medicines thereof being polychrests, thus eradicating all morbid conditions of the mind, spirit, and body, no matter the cause or the condit­ion.

To the best of my knowledge there is no case that has ever baffled Homoeopathy, Both ortho­dox'. doctors an&u laymenx ca^ientfkrdow actually use homoeo-therapeutics with success and save many a jpat- i&nt from the surgeon's knife even in "stubborn" cases or "acute" cases of appendicitis, or raving madness. With the incidence of so many diseases of infants and women today, the Africans ought to learn to pay more attention to Homoeopathy, and save themselves many an inconvenience or unneces­sary death. A Homoeopath is no humbug, and is more certain of what he is doing than many learned men. For those who delight in names<,aay I mention that even Royal families, including that of England, use Homoeopathy; the leading Homoeopath in England to­day, iflir John Weir, is one of the principal physicians of the Royal household (o f . RAND DAILY MAIL, Nov. 15, 19W

It is difficult to explain Homoeopathy in a limited space, but I may write a series on this system of therapeutics bn request. Fortunately fhere is a Homoeopath­ic Society in this City. I should be glad to help anybody who likes to know more of Homoeopathy,

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