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THE CHINA MAIL,
THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1060.
AS SOUTH AFRICA GETS TO GRIPS WITH ITS SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. A PROGRESS REPORT BY GORDON HOLMAN
Expansion--the key word in this land of natural riches
THE Voortrekkers and their large families watching the growth of their herds 100 years ago, must have had no doubt that the future of South
Africa lay on the wide veldt.
Then diamonds were found at a place called Kimberley.
appeared under the feet of the farmers,
Gold
Inevitably, the first "revolution" had started for those living in the vast territories at the southern end of the African continent,
Now secone "revolution" is
taking place
the South African way of life, New in- dustries, richer than precious stones and metuds, are providing: the incentive.
L
rommt.2
than South
Afrin's sweep forward from the days of the covered wagon, the Industrial revolution la proving even the momentuus.
passed
Only 40 years have Fince the Unton was importing basic foods such be cheese, bûl- ter, bacon and dried fruits.
It was not until afler 1925, when Prime Minister Hertzog introduced his South Africo First polley that there seemed any real prospect of the dreams of "industrialisation coming true.
Doubled
When war came in 1935, South Africa's 10,000 factories Wire producing goods worth less than £200 million. By 1945 the num- ber of factories liad not increased grently but the value of the goods they produced had jumped to nearly double the pre-war Agure.
At that time, the number of men of all races engaged in the country's manufacturing indust
tries was fewer than 50,000. 11 became clear that the industrini revolution had only been gather- ing Impetus through the war YUSTI.
A modern oil-from-coal plant near Vanderbylpark.
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goal mine South
Workers continued 10 be 5,000 tons of coal a day. Yet the back" the horse it has tipped - absorbed bat trutustry three reserves in its own times as fast as into other joba. are sufficient to keep it going By 1853, the number was up to for more than a century. 819,000, and the pay packet had Jumper by nearly £200 millio in eight years,
years, em-
In the next five
New town
ployment in the manufacturing A new township, Sasolburg, industries alone moved
up it has sprung up. Planned with a further 21 per cent.
with the Vaul green belt and Private enterprise backed most river running through the of the red growth, but the sidential district, it will even South African Government tually have a white population of sometimes gave a practical lead. 12,000.
To make better use of the There Is time for play as well Union's immense resoUTCUS of as work a: Sasolburg. It has a coal, the Govemment-sponsored drainatic society, folk dancing Industrial Development Corpora- group, cultural societies, and tion sank £40 millko in the numerous sports clubs, largest oil-from-coal project in the world.
Known by 114 abbreviated name Sasol, this Witwaterstod undertaking absorbs more than
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Bantu Jabourers at the plant live rent free in small houses or large hostels.
In many other ways, the Union Government has been ready to
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"Juct a precaution, sir-we want to sing dut if you
can stand the thrill of driving »ŠK.”
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London Express Service.
SICK, GREEDY, CORRUPT Is this really America?
E shiver in the From the man who has headed the
WE
winter of America's
discontent. The storm
of self-criticism blows
harder.
the gone. the
Attica, Undertakings
The strut and dealing with the production of Insecticides, and phosphates,
have nrnong ummunition
those swagger which have been given Govern- | Gone, too, are
Among the wonderful mineral stickers on every other car and truck saying "God Bless America" "We Are Proud to be Americans."
resources of the Union are all those needed for the alloying of It is hardly surprising sitel therefore that, mainly through Steel Cor- the glast Iron and portion, South Africa has shot up in the list of steel producing countries.
Canning
From this home-produced raw material, new engineering and metal - working enterprises are growing rapidly.
Another kind of local raw material feeds the most rapidly expanding of all South Africa's secondary Industries - food processing and canning.
To meet an ever-growing de- mand, thousands of fruit trees have been planted,
South African retentists have helped in the rapid development of the canned fruit Industry. A ramedy was found 10 the "woolliness" which developed in cold-stored peaches and other fruit,
The big fish canneries, along the West Coast have been rebuilt and modernised. Pilchards and mansbanker have taken the place of the rockt-lobster canned years ago.
Now, the tails of rock-lobster are frozen and exported to the United States where they are regarded as a delicacy,
The growing industries of the Union need raw materials. Much must be imported to feed the 000 clothing factories. Machinery, motor cars, books,
prints and varnishes en
grade leather all needed.
Beer, toys, furniture, glass and pottery are largely home pro- duced.
The production on the "sugar the export surplus was more
| bell" has been rising. In 1958-59,
than 300,000 tons compared only 18,000 tons deven cartier,
Investments
to
years
Tho transport, system laas found 1 dificult to meet the demands of this rapit develop- ment. Now 1901 is pet as the farget yror when all requlro- ments will be met.
Many countries have helped
Instead there is this morblu self-examination. this national necrosis-"Has America gone soft?"
"What's wrong with "Is the country America?" in decay?"
Miserable
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our
China Mail New York bureau for
twenty years comes this disturbing
old.
pose.
by
diagnosis
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chafe at even the aug-
national malaise.
The
papers are pointing out gloomlly that the American team is sick and sofi.
Senator Hubert Humphrey has had two operations, Senator Kennedy hars It bad anal Injury due to war wounds; •
Johnson. Senator Lyndon
how had A severe heart attack, Senator Stuart Symington has high blood pressure, Adlat Stevenson has kddney stones, Senator Wayne Marse "accident prote”—he was kicked in the face by a horse and Richard Nixon himself plains of nervous stomach.
Invalids
14
Com-
What a collection of invalida,
say the diagnosticians.
To add to America's perplexi- "President Elsenhower is too Brazil and uttered the platitudes and might this country and its
He has been drifing. He written for him by his two people
boom has Aeg the business has no sense of political pur- speech writers, Dr McCann und gestion or being second best,
tapered-off, the Block Market All the things you can Dr Moss, the attacks got worse.
The President, warned by his has plunged desperately low and
·been wholesale, cor- The Illness began few complain about in the American
A long line of witnesses doctors not to lose his temper, there has months ago, shortly after the people-complacency, apathy -
has Elsenhower embodies as his parades before Congress, harshly explodes with anger every time ruption in the big diles, parti- Russians hit the moon, and
erliical of his leadership and his it is suggested that America's cularly New York and Chicago. Are there, no honest people defences could be better and that spread through all the 50 States. own, Eisenhower lacks faith in policies. "Mr Author John Steinbeck now
the people have been misled, left any more? ask the voters. It Recently
answer themselves— writes to his close friend Adlai our system. We need a man of
Robert He regards such questions as a and then "ir I wanted to the times who is aware of the
Probably not. of Defence personal affront. Stevenson:
Television has contributed to destroy a nution I would have it challenge of the 60's. Mr Elsen Lovell, Secretary
utler Harry Truman, saying: on its knees, miserable, greedy, hower is living in the past."
"The United States is doing less
He snaps pt reporters who, the country's mood of melan and sick... on all levels
This has been the cruelest
After of all the many cruel than its best. It is losing pros- echoing. Steinbeck, suggust that cholia and self-reproach. society is rigged and has been blow
there has been too much con- the quiz scandals and the des Vin Doren corrupted Dy cynical Im- blows struck at the President in tige in the world."
There is almost an orgy of centration on the An-tailed big parture of Charles merailty."
When few weeks.
and
naiseating self automobile" way of life Instead we have had other These are bitter grapes of Mr Elsenhower read it he self-examination
research solf experiences. Mr Jack Paar, the weath from one of America's went brick-red with anger and criticism Every publication and of aducation,
to discipline, and sacrifice.
master of ceremonies who coa- fuses himself with God, de- foremost novellala.
walked ramrod straight from his very politician has got on Walter Lippmann, the column- study after telling his Press the stage.
What has made America no It so happens that this bitter parted in tears from his pro
other week. "I ist and main pillar of the Re- Secretary, James Hagerty: "No
of self-examination coin- granume
There must be publican Press which supports comment on any necount and in Jonger tlok? Mainly, I think, mood
the Soviet successes with rocket vides with election year. But cannot go on the President, bas suddenly any circumstance."
better ways of carning a living Poor Ike. He is being pressed misalles and moon shots, Acous- even the candidates
thon this." turned on Eisenhower savagely.
and harried. As he beamed in tomed to 'being 'first in power are
Mr He wrote:
Paar was making his tearful exit before millions--o
taped show, mind you be-· cause a water-closet. Jake of poor taste was deleted from his pro- gramme,
The
country hook
the
past
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themselves
not immune from the
Almost Dead-the 78.
London.
YOU find them only in
junk shops now, those clumsy, yet roman- tic phonographs of yes terday, with their ugly tin horn speakers.
And before long, the only records on which they are. capable of seratching a tuno will be joining them there.
Because 78 s.p.m. records,
AN 87 PER CENT DROP LAST YEAR- AND NOW ONLY SCOTLAND AND GHANA WANT THEM
which reached their peak sales HM.V. and Parlophone reconis) in the 1920's when the wind-up told
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PROFITS
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zeventy-eight po tar this year. And we haven't planned for any MOTE,"
the
with cataclysmle tremors and mighty upheavals, Jack the charm boy had gone and hờ could never be replaced.
Crawling
However, Jeck is back, now, this time at $500,000 a year, and after abject crawling letters from the National Broadcasting
Only the year's top hits are chosen for seventy-eight press Ing. So making a seventy-eight chiefs: "We want you ; Jacio record is almost as great an
We need you boy. Como on honour for a recording artist, as, homo, Kiddo." winning a goki one,
HANG ON
They wanted their boy home - becauso the Poor prognana nets ten, to 15 millions in spon- sor revenue.
Makes you alightly sick, eh? It makes tho "America (públic astonlehing
Chessman
red-headed
Now that the oventy-eights'
do the are responsible for a mere one-sick Bo Afllelh of total redond soles, blunders and drown out, tar- "It will certainly
the what will happen to record tures of the Caryl
Bo do me: they drop like death of the seventy-eight," he players, almost all of which are case in San Quentin Jail, phonograph was going strong that again this gear, freely sold.
equipped to run at three spoeds, the squalid proceedings in Los dre fast spinning themselves there won't be mach left of the
Angelés da Dr Finch, on, trial into oblivion.
for we murder, grins for the William Townley of Deces Including 70 r.p.m.? seventy-eight."
"We'll be making players with cameras and mo ogreed. The only reason 'Hig According to him, the only company press seventy-eight 13 .p.m. speed for at least 10 mistress, Carole Tregoff, shows reason the 78 r.p.m. record in is to "Export them into the monilia," said Pye. "After that, her curves and la interviewed by sill in production at all wilds of Scotland and to we can't be sure,”
actresses. electricity in Ghana and Nigeria."
This trial has no dignity and Record companies reluctantly that there is no
But the decline of the sheline Httle relation to the orderly pro development, not least of them, admit Ik—although some
still some parts of Scotland.
Not many African villages record is not a simal for yo censes of law. Like the Chess- Dritain,
make enough profita on soventy- "The demand for severity-
So uite make for the acarest funk shop man case, it is a blot on the Britishy Investors alone have eights tomako manufacture eights is much greater in Scot- harelatielly.
are avid record with every seventy-eight in your American record," put well over 800 million Into worthwhile.
Jand Not because people there reskients, who ihe Union since the war.
And Board of Trade figures, are too thrifty to buy modern fnt have to buy seventy recced library,
If you are smart, you'll hing but
because eight too.
They will prove it---Seventy-eights dropped record-pinyers,
How much time is loft for on to the older ones. 67 per cent in production last many people in Scotland don't
soon become 'collectors itatas, year.
inve the electricity, yet, to run the seventy-eight?
"As far as we're concerned,” Apokesman for E.M.. them.' (manufacturera. al Caplio),
And when they do get elec- said Pye Records, ValencÐS #ENDRIA,
Wo bove Josued anly. 100 Columbia, M.G.M., Merquay, tricity?
| South" Africa in her rapid
Earlier last month it whK an-
nounced that Shell and British Pelydoum are joining forces to operate £23 million oil re- finery pinnmed
Rounion Itocks, near Durban.
No wonder the mood hero is one of self-examirtation and set?-reproach. But, at least, São, patlesi knowa "boʻmbdónak any
Kitty Dixon his te the first step in
--[London Express Héryter).
recovery,