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Africans Smoulder On Election Eve

T

By

BRETT OLIVER

Nationalists, with five cleur years ahead of them, begin to twist the segregation screws tighter.

Living conditions in these areas, besides encouraging, the spread of disease, breed crime. Every week-end there are stab- bings and murders. Theft is rlie.

sions for the blind and disabled and school feeding,

Oul In the country, the kraals and reserves have sec little change, and the natives who remain unattracted by the cruel lure of city life lead a fundamental, tribal routine.

Johannesburg. HE fat, disreputable- looking old buses rumble daily out from South Africa's native townships to the mines and labouring sites. Overloaded with, slow-moving Africans

The Indians, more educated in patched trousers and

and assertive in outlook, have jackets, they throw up the

hewn for themselves, in most instances, a tolerable foothold dust in light clouds which drift and sctlle among the ing into the cities over the past to

Next to nothing is being done in the community. They have improve the Africans' jobs, homes and a substantial corrugated iron and wood decade. They are the ones who housing. Even with a stepped- degree of security,

an impoverished, but sub- shacks and on the shabby ctantially free, rural existence up programme, years would be

Cape Province has compara- for the unspoken promise of a units and

needed before sufficient family

tively fow Africans, though bachelor quarters the proclaimed brighter elty life. They came, could be built to transfer more

area at Cape- foolishly. And

town shanty

about 80,000 then a fraction of the countless

men

Blone. or nearly three towos sprang up.

thousands from

Union's times as many the

as immediately shanty towns.

after the war.

women with their clusters of ragged children.

In The day passes and the dusk the busos return. And at night, hundreds of thousands of Africans in the "proclaimed" arcas of the Union count off one more day towards the general election of April 15.

The prospect for Africans is therefore as unpromising as ever. Specially for those hundreds of

thousands who have been drift-

the

The Slums

It has been suggested that homeless Africans should be allowed to build temporary, but THESE sprawling, tumbledown sound, tin huts in the approved

slums, particularly Johannesburg. account for most help

round native locations.

them;

This would

new has

Kept Apart

to wipe out the Worst NON-WHITES in the Cape are mainly Coloureds-about a of South Africa's racial unrest, Equalor at the expense of lower-

They are They stretch a squalid, desolate ing the standard of the location. million of them.

in outlook In the up-country kraals lines of two-roomed

strongly European shacks,

Luckiest of the gigantic and live in good brick homes and reserves, too, the days made usually by the Africans

in South and work ot good artisan are being ticked off. So themselves from cardboard and cheap-labour pool they are in the better-class wood, or the stained sides of Africa are those housed by em jobs.

lite is flattened metal tar drums. In ployers. For

But whether African, Indian Coloured sections of Cape- the summer there is always reasonable enough.

Employers

Cope Coloured, the non- White town and in the employer- danger of fire: in the winter the are doing what they can to put or

of South Africa are of their workers into -built settlements of Johan-speed the spread of tuberculosis."

hovels become waterlogged and re

homes. The African nationalist guilty of being non-White. nesburg, Port Elizabeth and

awakening is pressing them into They all suffer the same In- dignities and most of the same East London.

The rent for these shanties, or a speedler gait than before. for the ground on which they stand, is about 73. Od, a month,

Quiet Now

Outwardly, the colour belts have an indescribably ramshackle appearance. But the huts aro

kept reasonably neat and

Other Side

inside, and the African South African scene, no

The

Co-ed Prince, Divine No Longer

By RUSSELL SPURR"

Tokyo, made his own bed, and walted a seat at the

ROWN PRINCE his turn for

dining-table. AKIHITO of Japan,

aged 19, in on his way The newspapers approved of to represent his father, the Crown Prince's new mode Emperor Hirohito, at the of life. The aircels were no Coronation his first look through, (It used to be a very longer cleated when he drovė at the world outside Japan. serious crime to look down at him from rooflops or windows.);

He comes with three tone

But some of the palace staff,

of luggage and 50 crates of valuable lacquer and silver. Tong for the bad old days to ware for gifts to V.L.P. he return. They would like to sco the Imperial throne restored to will meet in a 14-nation its full glory, tour.

That 13 why Honourable Prince Akihito will dis- Eastern Prince, as he is known embark from a U.S. liner at at Court, hos his home in a gloomy 30-room mansion a San Francisco, cross Canada quarter of an hour's drive from by rail, and board the Queen the Imperial Palace. Elizabeth at New York.

That is why he is attended by

What Akihito sees on his grand chamberlain, four or

dinary chamberlains, three doe- tour may vitally affect the tors, three personal servants, future of Japan. A com- and 11 bodyguards. mitteo has been spending

That is why he was not.. the last three months con- allowed to take his final school: sulting the British Embassy examinations, for fear of getting

low marks and the Japanese Mission in only

and losing London about what he "face." The princo remonts this supervision. Those who have should see and what he met him say he is D chocrfil,. should not.

chatly youth who longs for a chance to meet people,

Headlines

He is a keen horseman and, tennis player, likes classical music, movies, picnics,

But he enjoys them only (be-is

A WARDROBE has been hind a barrier of petty officials

ordered in advance in dom Savilerow, the right people

Sometimes he slips off for have been selected to meet private flim show at the British him. Thirty newspapermen Embassy with his friend. Sir

ambassador.. and photographers will re- Ester Dening, the

Sometimes he goes off for, an, port his every move

outing with his few close friends' but Akihito is used to head- but the retainers go too,

lines. They have followed every phase of his life.

THE BABY PRINCE of pre- war Japan, taken away from his parents at the age of three to prepare him for divinity and

the throne, -

The wall

POMPOUS courtiers Interfere In all his activities. They tried to confiscate copies of-a- YOUNG PRINCE In picture of him holding ́n schoot- uniform watching the Imperiat chum's hand. (The friend hap- armies march off to destruction pened to be a girl) ((((3) Y in Burma and the Pacific,

THE

THE

a ten-foot fence They had PRINCE built along the path to the PUZZLED starding beside hda frightened prince's school, hiding bars and father and tearful mother as the hotels from his view pag Stars and Stripes was hoisted Friends of the Crown. Prines 12 Over the occupation head. hope the officials will not spoil! quarters opposite the moated his visit to Britain, Imperial Palace in Tokyɔ.

The funerary includes visits THE PRINCE suntpling demo- to Edinburgh, the Tromsocha, the cracy under his new Westem Lake

Diarlet. Stratford-on- tutors, Gone wore the admirals Avon, the South Const, Oxford," and generals who traditionally and Camcridge. He wil prob schooled him for his future role ably be allowed to ride in Hyde: as commander-in-chief of the Park and visit London theatres,, forces of the Rising Sun,

But any hope of meeting the British people is ruled out

At school

1- ' , It cannot be helped For Crown Prince Akihito, like all

·Japanese,-la-really two-persODS. .... He is a modern, princo în even-

restrictions. Segregation ap HE now learned the practices ing clothes, and a feudal ruler

lika

plies to them all, in all its present manifestations.

They are kept apart from the Whites wherever possible, Separate elnemas, separate THE FOR South Africa is quiet

matter how ugly some of its transport, separate entrances to

public now. There is no rioting, in them appear happy, in their tones, is not

place

railroad entirely one of

9% stations, separate shopping none of the violent incidents own way. Some families col- suppression of the non-Whites. centres. which identified last year's lect little furniture, but single It is true that the Nationalist made honest men are usually content with a Government has flaring deflance campaign.

sleeping sack, a stool or perhaps efforts in some directions to up- lift the Africans. Education has Eight and a half million a bench or two.

been expanded, health and social non-Whites are waiting for Luckier natives live in brick welfare and conditions in in two and a half million barracks, flats or small houses dustry have all been improved Whites to decide which turn which they are also learning to to an extent Health services

build. troubled South Africa takes supplies are not always evident. cludes

Sanitation and water are free and social welfare in

oil age pensions; pen- in the next five years.

Anything could happen after April 15. For it is almost certain that Dr Malan, the dour, implacable architect of Apartheid policy, will be given a new mandate to continue and

The deflance movement, so passive in the pre-election period, 1 supported almost entirely by the Africans and Indians. The Cape Coloureds, essentially low-abiding, have no truck with it. But this does nothing to increase their hopes of raising themselves.

TEN WORDS DECIDE EINSTEIN

New York. LBERT EINSTEIN, the

extend his programme of Afather of relativity,"

!

forceful segregation.

Jacobus Strauss and his United Forty, forming the moderate. middle-of-the-road Opposition in the last Parliament, can only hope for a miracle.

The eight and a half million Africans, Indians and Cape Coloured are left with nothing to hope for. The next five years carry the shadow of the inst Ave but the shadow darkening apace.

Resistance

offered the world a single "nw" to explain all the workings of the universe,

AMERICA COLUMN:

from

NEWELL ROGERS

members, will involve the FBI. in politics.

And he reports to Congress that the Communist Party, which has gone underground In cells of five members each, is running its own loyalty chock.

And behind this law stiines tourists who annually throng OMARC is the name of the his belief in an orderly universe the gambling casinos. under the directing hand of God.

TOVERNMENT

romot

U.S.A.F.'s first pilotless fighter. It is designed for one economists job only--to ram atom bombers The law is set down in four predict no bust of the boom. flying at supersonic speeds. deceptively simple equations. But they now do point out

A rocket engine and They are issued by Princeton factors that could bring a slow- engine give Bomare its fantastic University Press in a 32-page down in the next year,

speed while radar and electronic ṛppendix to his relativity

Samples: Over-production of gadgets locate, track, and crush theory.

Caru, over-expansion of debt; it into the bomber. Bomare What a shock for the materi- fidling Government spending. carries an explosive charge in alistic scientista! What argu-

Its nose. I will provokel. Fox Adence, Missouri, Mr

WORKMAN In Indepen- ments

Tru- ITOLLYWOOD wants to make

1.

white-haired, sad-eyed Einstein

raciol laws of Malas, kave made { shows that there is. And in ten: bisball as the number ́ono Taylor, "widipg"are to boʻin. it'

NEW upsurge of resistant challenges the scientific theory man's home town, sawed through a picture that British' Alm can be expected. The African (now almost extinct) that there what he thought was a largo makers should, above all else, and Indian Contraues, domblaed | is no cause-and-effect, no tree root. It was a cable, Result: make. It is the story of Magna organisers of the dellance com- purpose in the universe.

A thousand telephones cut off. Carta-1215 and all that..

And the fact that paign against the discriminatory He liclieves his single Saw TTORSES méing has displaced Kerr, Greer Garson,

Stewart Granger, and words he sums up his belief; ectator port. And the Now Michinel cannot believe that God plays York State: Racing Commission does not make the ambitions of dice with the coMOSTELE hoids, £14,000 worth of uncash- Hollywood, yearning to put MANGSTERS have found a cd winning tickets from last King. John and Runnymede In vacillating United Party and new paradise, Cube, as a :Season

a three-dimensional fim Any more apt from the British point

view.

it clear that the present calm is for the time being only.

Supporters of the non-White cause the uncompromising anti- Malan Socialists, the newly-

"Sailor Malan's erleading Torch Commandos fully realise that

hide-out when the G-men

EDGAR HOOVER, Federal Bureau of Investigation They do not prey on': Cubans, chier, la not happy,

the Nationalists will probably too hot on their trail; by

weep back to power, And they

know, too that opposition to Dr Malon's Apartheid policy will become a harder project 'an the

ao the Cuban gendarmes mako: He fears him;latori asaigiamaiset BGAN makers' want to entice

women anokers. They hope little trouble for them: "Their checking on the loyalty of guest, to make thin bhio, great, und vicilms, are. 300,000 American dential nominoes, even Cabinet pink, cigars,"

of peaceful lands, read in the yellow-red rober of 1,200 * Shakespeare and Goothe and the years ago which he still wears history of democratie develop at amelal palace ceremonies. ment

The Coronation tour may they

some

changes.

AN

The headlines were biggest troduce when one of the last traditions glimpse of the Duke of Edin was broken and Akihito entered burgh piloting his plano or sall- the Gakushulin, Japan's best ing boat may make the couTWEE school,

tiers change their views. Item they do, the Japanese people Imperial lead,

He studied in a co-educational will follow the class with the sons and daugh-..And democracy will get one: ters of the Japanese aristocracy, more chance in Japan, 206 2nd

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