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PREFACE PREFACE fllr j4)/lr This new edition ()f of Naugbr Nagsgbr for y0or Cmnji'l'f Comfinrt olpp~;lfS appears :tt at a Africa ,1111] and peopld !If of $,luth South Afrk;l Afrkan peupll.' time of crisis ftlf for African Naniibia.

Namibia. When I wrote the book rwcmy.dght true years '11;') ao it is CI'U,' wenty.eiglth },NI'S to say that most nIost people p~ople ill in the West had h"d no understanding \lI\d~l'$t;llldinl!i at all of the mC;U1inp; meaning of ·\'pal'thdd". "apartheid". Today l~wr)' everyone o "t alI ..)nt' Qf intelligence knows that wh'lt what I wrtm' simple wrote then intelligence lmows thm was the simpl!;' truth, South Afrk.l Africa is the country in lh,' the tlllth, namely n,undy that S,luth th,' only "mmcry entire way of Iif,: life on discrimination by world which bases its ,:ntirc discrimhllinn hy race and colour, South Afrk.l Africa is is also unikue in colour. Moreover, Moreover, $<)\1(11 ,\Iso unique making the issue of fl\~C til<' lives (If it,; race demnnin:ttill(: deterriniative fll!' for the of aU all irs citizens, citizens. After twenty-eight }'<:ars years it stilll'enhlins still remains tnl
12 I'REI'M:I' 12 PR1: FIAiV United N.1tions Nations by by continuing continuing ttl to (It','UP)' ocCupy N~mihi.1 United Namiii; .Hul and i carrying out out extensivt! extensive llIJd and app.llling carrying thl' appalling lllilit;lry~tf.,lCks militairy attack.s nn on die civilian population, population. f~iaving Having slIccess(uily successfully dt:mU)'I·.! dvilian destroved C!IC the economy of of Mozamln(juc, Mozambique, SIHlth South Aim., economy Africa h.ls has tnn:t'd ed ilS iti government to sign sign the the Accord Accord knnwn known ;IS government as rhl~ the Mlwm.ni Mkonatti Accord, which which gives gives it the whip-hand whip-hand and Accord, and )It'( yet whkh which Ius has been made to to appe'lr appear as as an act act of of magn.mimity, magn.aimity. been Unfortunately, the West h;ls has I,'rgciy Unfortunately. largely al~~eptl'd accepted South Soiuth Africa's policies policies and and there is, is, therefore, the d'\flW:r danger th.1I that South Africa will do what what it likes, likes, hoth both insid~ inside chI' the ,:\'\Ultry South country and in its external policies, for the forc$~ci\hle foreseeable futllr~. fu tu re. and ' In this this sense South Africa isisundoubtedly OJathr'~;H threat ((\ to WI\r!d In world peace in in aa way way which which was was not true whel1 when thi,~ this book tics! first peace appeared. Obviously changes have h~ppct1cd happened over tlWSt' these yc;us, years, i:'but Obviously om apartheid is in in fa~~t fact the only oiily ~ncnw enewmy apartheid itself isis stronger and is which remains remains to onlv iwpe hope and [way pra, that which to be defeated. 1I can ()lily those who read this new edition of mv book will re ognize th?se.who read this new edition ()f my bllok tT':'I~nil" this simple truth and do all they can to persuade thIS sl!llple em persuade those in ill power in own countries isolate SR)uth power in their their own countries to to continue continue to to isoble StHHh Africa until apartheid apartheid is is defeated. July 1984 1984

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of hi.~ U4 to ainy fikr<,wti to le "lid saidi fllti,wdl I'f is IS rold told of SIntlt~ when he .IIIY uf Såntt that, tji..t, wilt.n kr tie ,Africa,~ he visitu>rs le~~scuuci friends or distitigiislhed distinguished vi~it<\ts le;\Vin!~ Sundt Alrka.
Sällth AftiGI Afric.t loveliiss of S;mth to Smnuts bave no doubt doubt that chllt ((J Smucs thle the loveliness I h-ave ;vild lh,wt'l'5 fimwer Mikd natural beaUty its wild and beaucy and grandeur: ics was its natutral lic kne.w ucdi tell" he gte.lt g~rent cm{Jrines,of etir is (If grasses, abolut about wvhic wbich he knew so SI) nmdl: I)f tixthe veldt irs its skies above the silence silencc of veldt. Enýtand hy by th~ the Couumutnity But, .,;nce since rI knew of my recall to HI1,~bnJ Bm, C<1IllIllUnily those words have thj~ n11,e Ilud a11, thii h-ave, h:lu!)f<:d !i;tuned me; to which wvhich Ir belong, befong, chlose Africa 1I.love. wtoutki. be from the ht,ICC hleart of of tile the Alrk,l In'll'. wOllld b,: book, written writteri from1 ill(Omplete nor sornehol(,W somehow .IN ill the ';i)lH<'XI of Ibis thiis set it it] (oncemc of (lid tiot inicoimplete if I did inevit.dile dOp:lftUfC: deiiarttire, ""l'iltdr. llittit, (:'~,{ c'ot sudden, unwanted. unwvantcd, bur sudden. bllt intvit'lbl,~ in thl.' thec ini the ~oe moudr pen" ... and 1Iam I .Ull ill Pr.:l(CSS of of 4,yixi dying:- in motirir un on peu deåffi. die0 Stlel "1 ,IN(h; hour."' The TIAC thing abiul process, "every every hour." :tb<1ll[ sudl the quali ty of tt) hei,llhcen heighcn the tite l)VcliCSs of whar n 1.wdillC''s''
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knew what what I was W:l~ doing. doln,ll. Ir knew knew AMoIgst IImonlN Other tllhrr thill,0 fhillH~ vows, Ir knew that 01 obedience, obedience. willingly wi1linxly anl Ull'! freely £re~ly taken, 1111.;"11, wqild \\:ollh.l that the vow of oftel (m isso inevitably involve not nO/the $ulrcnder of u.f freedoni freedom (,,~ is .S') ufffn the surrender inevitably ,t it of self-will. supposed) but the surrender surrender of self-IV Ill,. I knew ku~w th th.11 It wOUld \\,11111.\ supposed) Ltinw -ip or involve. some some day, ,hly. somewhere, ~omcwhcre. the taking mklU,Io\-up m cie lh~ 1;\)"lIjl· involve, y, a,I tA.sk down of a task t:1sk entrusted emrusted to me fill' by the rhe Communit Cnmllumir),. l,t'l.; VA 1<1 fe b\! down u10% depCendetr not therefore and alone, thcrefnre lIot dep<'u,knl ul~m not of myself llkme. done no! UJ wa%~llohl was doing my own desires or wishes. I knew what whr 11 to do it. I am still glad, gth, ma1 the >It<,tl,l.:lh, whkh alone 11lon" gives ,~ivcs aII m'll1th~ that vow of obedience which ie lovei' partinlg fron when he most needs it, to die by parriu)\ from what wlw he' \'1\"'$, when Africa from away me corn mc il\V;lY fcmu Afcit:l ai\t this Nothing else could have e' aII that ;ire great thankfulness thankfulness for the ehe twelve years YOMS thile are over, (\\·~f. ad ,"1<1 for f"t . the marvellous marvellous enrichment enrichment they th¢y have have meant ml,o\nt in in my Ill)' life. lift' . last on "u all thin,~s things lovely ... ... "' Mot ri re in . "Look "Look thy IllS! Most of my rinw South Africa has becn been spent ohantlesburg, and half III ti it ill spent in rQl1al1l1e~burll. ~lIld 11,\11 the slums of that city of ,'told. gold. No thinkL Ullll,! cohdl ..one one of dIe Nt) one, I Ihillk. Johannesburg a lovely place. It is is too tt) smrk stark un.! and tlrc% ,tito call Johannesburg K.' \.!!\,·,H!I" promising: tOO too lacking in any softness tlf of light and shade em .too Rny sofmes.~ :tnd sh",I¢: overwhelmingly the Wit\\\u(:'r"r,II\,t. Witw rsr.tM. o'Verwhelmingly and blatantly blntantly the centre celUre of tbe to have much loveliness, loveliness. Bue Buc rI hllV(' have seen. seen, m{\Ill~IHllril)'. nomentariiv, lh~ the golden sa;\d satd of the n;ine.d\lmp.s Mine-dunips crossed by grey and j;rttr <:1<\~sed ~re1 un,l l"l!l'lc shadows U\ in the evenmg. evening, transformed transformed into 11cmtv .... --a intI) IIa real re,,1 lx:.uuy i\ .thing slag-heaps of iudumiul industrial England. thing impossible to the slag·heaps 1:11,111.11,,1. 'Awd A,,,{ I have come to love the rolling country of the ltiXh.vddt high-veldt rmmd rrtind bave the city, stretching away to the Magaliesbuig . aid the dty, stretching nwny to the M'llllllielbUl'g 1ll()lmt;lins dml Johannesburg na setting whkb which belongs to few fcw ¢iiew6 giving to ]ohanne.;burg belllnRS to tid", in the wo~ld, Of cileheauty the beauty of mes and gardens [ will the world, Of of itsrich its tich hllmes und !l;\l',kll~ I will not write: for I have never been able to see the beaitry with not wrlte: for I have never been able to ~,,~ the lW:III!)' willI' out remembering the cortugated-iron shacks iind the mikdly Out remembering cOrl\lgateu.j ron sh\ll:k~ "n,\ I\lI."\'\y yards where our African p<:ople people live, cerutiti rh.H ttr live. Indeed, I timnam Letl.ml no beauty could could ever.s) on Illy my hert :s to 14r no natural natUml belluly ever so lay IllY hold 1m 1l(~,1f! :IS en It 1II.I~r me weep for for lellving leaiving it. it. Ochers Others may may be (r~l\w.t created diffrr<Jmh'; differtnly. I me weep have never never been been nble able to to feel feel time that i111~tll1sia nostalgia fllr for f,I';'~.I. plat . /1''''''('\'171' lutwevirr have lovely. And, after all, Africa is a cruel place rather tham lovely, And. ufter aU, Airl~f\ is II crud l'Ia(c rdlh~r :ll<1tll\twma, Ik
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Africa: B. cosmop'lliean. ctowtlc"Aelf {,I f14 N11(11 ~1I~dll!1~m tvar lest Irst 111 in .'.IlI1~ mmie way become " åttached ntt'lch~cl " .. for lor fNr w~v ""II becortie WOkild mean ,Ia base .lLsltlyulty would I11f,tn tOl Chrbt. N;, .lnnbt klisloyaltv ck) Oirist; Nis tiotik !l1~1<' Klircr alc mr sotils who, wh(>,, for theil djeir own owli pnlrt.'fi')Il. Ill'''' IIIMIC C!i<:lww 0,xl mA. ~II All hurlimi Sll love uf render, partilig. (,j!U"~, .me ollv LÅS ii fender, of partin.!!, ~ ",,,nh·whH.. ,\Irtl'l"~ '" runke. an olf"ring idering whi,h which I~ 6 rh~ flir Jove low ;iIl.! mid "Ifn:rltltl 'tffk'ý:Iititt ..off ~II 41 Ihe lIInke: 01C yeitr.s, fllr for all till those tlite h",kll,\\\'ll, 11,3% kllowtlý i( luck "\tlie 'Kytlir memillig. likr.. years, thOSe "tit II Im~ U1cJuin/l, h~ r310 p.re.;iom oilltml)llt oilltalefir [...1111<:,'1 'lilt Klitt lin till dl!.' the II! i'lililt t\tld (11.0 f""f 4-o 44 t kjrin.-' Åttsj it is i$ costly CONtly (Oil. Im. " All thitimi Mirboll frorik gfkkm irl in "All thinRI lovely Invdy •.." (11 Ot.! Mirhltll IllIIlI hort h,,' '''''''' ,goplliålt(>wtl, writilig In 14-> 5y j;(1l<~I·h!'" 1'(*> *C.. will mo4 Ih~l Osm Snphiatowll. writill.>: ~ily .. "W wrU 1111'1 milltids \,~ tok 4:4 cnsätt K måt \\'I!., WI-hk hoW 11*3 patting 11IIIIii bUild which whkh rf'lIIhhl~ '11 ~a i:"fI~'" lo;.IIlIt pt'Ople whn who did n,le noc ~.. m to rf.i kilO'" kriokk, the die w way tionip 'rh~1 IIsm Kill); Kgn.g I...yI 1I"lIIf P110 lcftpII!s royål ~cac xem I1ml unkl ~Ulll~ If> left his rO)'111 <11 (hrm (o livf' livr n. IN1.1Il" cinr of ffsens IUf tio .I!mt Klitsty years, amI. and fur thret' threr yt:'~n ynts hetio In~d trivd m ns Nhtlw (ttrits !h" Kli. w., v iI... ,mi YfOlfS, ,11".. Ihrll'l When he WilS iIllli~tk.t 11M! Iltl'Y ~y. lit' Iftf If/r thrm wheft llcw;listti,,tilrtttllAt Olcy kkltw knew lilt' Ihr ..... WAY31cOlrul llcavcLl blem May HClwel1 bl('!\~ V'111 Kb OkR IIUI' ulm¢ h4~k volt. ,mtt ålut it it )Yffi tigý.4 ('\ fo !\.~llh souill Africa Afrka agaill lI.!\din Wc we willllltct Will fftert
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to assess. assess. the situarioll situation in in South South Africa. to Africa,

What II will will attempt attempt to to do do is is to to use use cercl1in What certain lep,bltuioll, legislacion, (cmin ertain authoritative statements. statements* and and (;errain certain movements movements to authoritative to iIImnM~ illuntrate single theme theme... But not not in any any abstract nnd and tnt.Xlrccit;ll aa single theoreticat W'l)': way: rather as they they affect affect the lives of persolls: persons: 8! as I know rather as knl)W th~m them Ir"1II frinT day-to-day experience: experience: US as I feel feel them in my OWl! own hl':ltt heurt ~t day-to·day at rbit rhi moment. What What I shall try to avoid avoid is th;lt that mi)~t moment. most "miniOn common ~11~hl~ dignity nllt! and Ya which is infinite. conception n<'l:O:~"lli1r which is infinite. I beleive beleive that this C(Hl~¢prh.ltl eteC~ilY carries Stare exists carries with with itit the the idea idea that the Sture c.xists for rhe the indl\>hlll~l. individua!. not not the the individual individual for for the State. Any Aoy doctrine based ba~~;! cu 0.1\ nial rllnd · or or colour colour prejudice prejudice and and enforced enforced by the the State State isi, chereforr therefore im ~Il a.ffront affront to to human human dignity dignity and and. "ipso " ipso facto" fncro" an lin insult ill$~llf to 1\) (AXI (;(1<1 himself. himself. It It isi~ for for this this reason reason that that I feet feel bound bouod to to oproise
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very fond of describing multi-racial South Africans are arc "ery describing their ffiu!ti-rodlll as uiii clue; n.' as a~ problem which does not c(lnfro!lt confront mhet other society Il.q ul]i~llc; nations; as IIa simarion denanding sympachy and understanding nation,l; 11$ sItuation demanding sy(flp~rlly lind lIncl<:'tsCancling LEqually they lire are olmo~t almost pnthOlogk. pathologic from the rest of the world. Equally ally sensitive expressed sensitive to to criticism from outside, olltside, whether whether it is is cXplea.led. by aa committee committee of U.N.O. or by Canon Collns. Invariably the U.N.O, hy Canon Collin;" lllvariably tbCl is that none understand Somh South Africn's Africa's problems defence i. nOlle can undersmnd problema can underunder except White South Snuth Africans. AErkll.lls. No one, apparently, u~pilrelltly, call stand "the native" except stand" the n.Hive" except his boss or his hi~ "• MisSu.' fl1isslls.. .. And none should dnte dare to bring to the bnr bar n( of world opinion (or of opininl1 {m ot the . Christian conscience Union) .11<:11 such cumplkAted. complicated conscience outside the Union} problems. To do so is m to be a11 traitor to une's one's C
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less that II can lessthnt c~n prophesy prophe~y when wh(!n and tlnd in what what form fllty to tl) South &It\th Afria, Afd"" then be brought am disloyaL disloyal. I prefer to believe, however, ,are hllwiwcr, that Christians Chri,lcillns Me to a higher obedien<:e, obedience, a more profound patriotism , called called (0 patriotislII th'ln than that that due to an .. de facto" facto .. Government. The on,,! South Africa Afrka IIlt1\'e; love; can p(.' be ,bl\\\l\(bt diemwmded is the land to which I give all the loyalty that c"un that which isis built on and more permnunt On a surer Sliter and penn.ncnt fitindatiot fot\lld.\dml Itis exiS(s than white wbite supremacy. It is the land which, at present, l'res,·lIC,
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there is 1l11ldl l1" dnne the c"it'ndar, týlerc is nil lell to he dølle in ill pr~I'''r;ldnn, There ,Ire miluy ''(InfcssicJlIs Q to be he h":lnl: rh':r<: is the ,')f tlie ,,,,,'1lI0n;:I! of hørkl. tliý,r(ý ,Ire nIally COllfeSsions the New Fire Fire tý) to rehearse: tliere e1wre is eliýclll~ Churdi Churdt to ttl be lýc 1lI",1" 111;1k1c reýiely. colir,ýe, as æs always [""dy. And, of course, "IWiIYS ill in Sllphiatnwn, (here til(ýre is i-,, a the .h,f m p.ll' eheir t:liiit,<ýll dllll',h steady stream of peopte people C()millg tl) tø tilrriilig rI was wiis rlllt not [,10 plc.\s<:d when NVII,ýil fher" tliere Stmdf into tily Officc---alld eviýtc-litly (Ile Ul\C ønt: oJlice--and evhhmdy uI1Wy~"'"'the ytý)tillg ymllli! 111'MWAkX O\;IU;I~t:l' of ()f the atid Iml)' only rýiiikýbýir atl ~~.S"fvir~ num wlm hnJ alld milk·h"t in S.,lphiawWIl: lUI 11ýid b('~un [-x, lin l\å f;:w feNv months b,l(k b.tt,-k un ýtii ~~I)(;rimtIH""il European in ,Ill Mrican towns~ip tt)wliýhilp rtilitiitig all ,fl:n~t'j'i'l1:,tyle ,MI'!,\ fmu1I'l'in, ;.\frkall nmnill); ,\11 ,' It's jacub .,' . . ." fic begitti. • • . Fariler,! Fittlier, 1*1,1-; welt iI'IHlg w)lýlig It s Jacob he lx:g,\lI. III kL-ti'111i, damn wdl to do ab()ut this •• , it's it·~ il dø sornethin/ol wiiýethixig alu)tit'tlii,4 ýi hI()<)dy blt,,k)ýly .~l"ulle Nlia,xii-c4.. ,. l'.lthrr, you've yoti've got co to help me, li-le. •. . . ," On Matindy Oil Maund), '!'!lUfsday iiiglir night at ,1cl'l'r. ~r;ldo!l, I..CdWllbll scittion, J~,oh j 1,.,etlwixbt h:tLI het-li been arr~st~ bdo,t\ ulle tilt' nld~w ,Uld without had arrestiýd 1m for [)eitiýl mit ,,{rer iýt-ter the -ýtirfew ånd ývitlititir his p;~'lS, On Satmdny He told Ilis pass, 8ýLttirday Illllrni!l,ll he Ile came (ý-åttie hum". Ile (kýiti his wife he hlld becti bc~n kicked in tl,~ flml Ile he WM was tlie (~U~ lilt.! ittiýi thåt tlitý S[,HUJch å;tøtilach in the 13e litid ill sllch fhat he g<) to m wilrk. ý",) "nJ 411141 lell ý,elt WIrk-' WtllJld. ~he ll') in stich pain tilat Ile CllUl.lll't go th,~ bms, ýtllicl flU,\ CXphlill? It W ..I~ý tlii.ý fhi.~ thýlt lilM brøught br,lulll!f th.: IIM'"I/ol(,f {If tIlt! wit, tit;ý, ikhillitger of the tliý,- milk·bur iiiilk.bku [0 to my. my allite offite II[ tit tlie Ølt MIg,j,m till k)u Huly s.atlJrd~y %;ItLltd,4Y lllOtIl in,IL tik()tillinx

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It would be dranatise this illl:idel1!,-nnd ilddent.-and in m1any b,~ easy eMY to drullJiltlse in m~nl' recent flovds novels \m on South Africa su~h such incidents have hcrJl becni recem Illdd~nt:l Imv~ described. All I want jaco W"! was taken de~crib<.'iI. wam to say is this, this. J,uxlb (liken 1<1o hospital h(\~pl{~l lud died of i\a bladder injury, leaving aIi widow hsid 1\a lU'lmh·u\,i moithold Itud bl"ddetinjuIY, wkll)w IlIla baby. We brought na cU.!C case against Ihe bllhy. nil" ill thc police, and in evidence evidioncr produced~ arda iconcernillg ncerning the natuire prllducecl ntlidavirs nature of th ,he injury irljury f((llmhe froi t two do,lOrs doctors who had hild 'l((fnde,l JIl(ob, We IIIIi<J the ,efvict'S atenedt Jacob, id,%o h~d had tho services of an emillenc eminent Q.C. (long llftcr ilter Jacob's body had Q.c. The verdict vl:rdkt (101\8 Jllcob's !)(I(iy bad been cemetery:: It)l1 longg after bten laid in the Ihe cemet~ry lifter any fresh fmh medical meJk1l1 evidence ~ideO\<:~ to light) liglit) Wi1S was tlmt that he ie hilt! had diC'llllf died of ,'mRcllirai could possibly come cOllle t() coigoiral syphilis. The maRiS(f:1te magistrate added aII. rider to his verdict verdkr to «! the rhe eelcc that the police had been betn sharnefully muisreprieatecd in efft'Ct sbal\\du\ly tlli5repr<,,'nrt~,1 ill and that there W;IS was no evidence this case, cm, ~nd evidence whatever wlultever inculpating incul\lllt'ng them. . first place because had forgotten So Jacob died, in the lirst be<:Il11Se he h,ltl forilutrcn 10 m carry his pass. In the second c,Hry st,<:ond because, Go;;)d Friday beiolg bcinR a~ Good Friday public holiday in S. S. Aftica, Africa, he spent cwcnty.ftlUr twenty-four homs hours in be had spellt the police cells in Jeppe. This thing happened happened quite a long time ago now, and lIn,III Slip' sup pose that if taLob's son is still alive he isis just at the beginning Tacob's SOn beginning of his .choo1days. schooldays. It will.onJy will only be IIa few years yenrs more till the d~)' day mutst carry a pass. II only hope and when le, he, too, tOQ, mllst lind pray I'ray he wilt will so careless as forger it one evrnil1/\ evenhig not be ~o ItS his father (,uher was, and lnrgec when he goes to visit his friends. It Ie can C,III be very \'~ry costly (()~c1y to t() forger fm!icf your !'~~S. pass. Now, ehe the impact such an incident its this upon imp(\Cc of Sllch incident M UpOll a~ pries~t pd",! i5is from its imp"'! impact upon rather different, I suppose, frolll \11'<'n the rht ordinary onlimlry South African Jacob is Jamh Jacob l.edwAI~. I.edwab, ' Somh African citizen. For, to Ita priest, prieSt, Jacoh husband and head Jacob Ledwaba, husband lind hend of aa family: 11KI)0 LedlVnbn, member nf the umieber of congregation congregatioo at Christ the King: Jacob Ledwaba, Ledwabn. wlm!\e whose hnl)C bilhe baptised: upon WlltlSe whose lips I have placed, I have bapril\ed: placed. S\I{\,l:l), Sunday by whose joys and s()trow~ Sunday, the Body Body of Christ: wlmsl' h~ve sorrows I have known--whose sins, by the unto me, we, I known-whose the authority authority committed c()mmitt~d. IIntn have forgiven tiS as he evening afet Imve be knelt !melt beside beside me of a!l Saturday eveninR aller eveniong in (he the lovely chutch. church. To the ordiMty ordinary &mth Somth Afri an evensong Alr1lA11 dtiZC11, Iliitiveooy b~ citizen, he is a native boy (and he wOld,1 would still he be 1\a htl)' bov if he lived to seventy) ,;",ho who hadn't got and who was tosevenry) gOt rta pass 1In~ w~~ probably (1wb.,:hly police when they lU'fcsced arrested him. cheeky to the p<)1Jce 111m, A I\. pllY he dird,
21 Ak enty In magazine: endy In some church mllAazine: extreme complacency complacency of of the publications the State Information Office 0 flit fW As I hav publications of the: Of!ic~ so ~s lhnvt' Africa gives the lmpr~sstQn impression t!ll\t, that the Union seen them $een ~hem gives tinioll of South Mrkn is kind of earthly paradl,le paradise for its Is a~ kmd of eatthly ItS II1hnbttalll$ stonp, inhabitants of evert every group, The accounts given by some of the visitors to this country vi,ltt)ts [0 cmlncr? suggest South AErieR Africa i, is an hell on emh, earth. The $\lgges! that thot the Union of Saudi hdl tin 'l11~ stated on lxth facts stoted both $ides sides arc are mainly correct, correct. Hut it .. .i, the difference in the way which the material isis selected." selecred." difference lies ill way in whi~h I wonder jf if it is really as simple 115 as all to bt' bo R.l1 that. I believe it to not a matter of the way material is selected so much ~5 as tilt the W' way !it) 1I\\I,h A';I assesses the rea meaning and purixpse of life. On in which one oncnssesses real meanin,l! IInupllrpme South Afrka. Afrka, nor na this level, hell is not a bad description of S(lmh very exaggeration. 1'0r, For, M as I lItllic(stll!1d u decstaud itch~\l\lj.\k"lly, it thologi(Aly, v~ry great exagg~radoll. the rc.ll real pain Ilnd and agony (expressed "the (cx(lressc.l symlxllkal!y symbwlhcally but very definitely Its definitely by Christ in the Gospels) Gospels) of hell is frustration, frmtmkln. lu atmosphere is dread. Its hm10r horror isis its eternity, When you Ilt/nosphere is irs eternity. Y(lllIlCe are in In hell, you you (an can never rench rewh it: you km!w know y{lll see the good but yO\l that you God but between and Him YOIl are made for Go,! between yourself IIlId Hall THB DAYLIGHT TtBU DAYLIGHT AND Till! T19 DARK

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description of the is m)t not an bid fixed) It is great gulf fixed." .. there is a grellc b",1 des<:riptiotl ultimate meaning of apartheid, Aod And I am not lit at all sure thiat that it is very far rrom from the ideal ideal which the present it is prcSCM Goverwment G
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desperately lege exceedingly exceedingly rare in the Union)-and Unkm).-and it is is quite clesJWlatdy overcrowded. But its residents rone of overcrowded. resideuts are a.ro part of the labour hlbllur flln'e of Johannesburg, They come in by bus and bicycle Johanuesburg. bic;yde every evety mmlliu,ll mor i1g to work in the homes, in the shops of the shlops and in inthe factories (f city. The The long qlleue queue at the bus rank the smtiOJl station Ilf of ,m an dty. rIIok near ne~r tbe of tbe the week: weck any day (If evening evening does not disperse before 7 p.m. on on nny Alexandra ".. natives" natives " the except Saturday. Without ex.ept Without the Altlx"l1dra northiern to [1.0 go servantess, nor aU r\W fc!v northern suburbs would have (() servnt1dc~" and illld tItlt in(d city would to lin,\ commercial commercial concerns in the thedt)' wunld be hard hnrd put to it (.1 (which is nor restrictrid to . labour. Apart from overcrowding overcmwding (which is nut rmrkt~.l to Alexandra Township), TownShip), there hM Alexandra has been no muj()[ major problem ilt at Alexandra of some ten y~(\rs years 'l~n, ago, Alexandra since the famous bus strike ()f .when, increased farcs, fares, the workers walk~d walked im,) into ,when, sooner than pay incrcilsed their work day after day victory was won. the city to thdr ({:lY until umil victo!y Now, however, there is a crisis-nnd crisis-and one Ihs within unc which whkh h.ls within othor .-rises crises it the seeds of a great tragedy. Only, like so many ochrlf is unknown to most white citizens uf of JIlhan. Johan in our country, it is nesburg and, though known, it is those in autllllr· author nesbutg is discounted by th()~c fact that it affects human life isis of litde little n((ll\lllt: account: for ity. The face hUl11ll[lllfe human life is is as cheap human labour ifif it is black, :ul,l che,\p as 1Hunan and ;\$ as easily replaceable. Those whose servants come day by day from Alexandra Alexnntlra know it simply by name-as name-as indeed do those whose servalm servants come from Sophiatown Sophiatown and Orlando uod and Pimville. e Pim.viU~. It is C;~. ceedingly. rate housewife to Jotl'! go and see fhe tie rare for any European h<)Usewife 'In.1 S~~ home of her wash·girl wash-girl or her cook. Such CO!l't:rn concern is nor 11"f· nor is not mally included cecrainly inchldcd in the kindness which is her boast: bmlsl: t'W;liuly not included included in the knowledge of natives which is her conhfrant ,ummllf defence against criticism. And so it comes about that in A1e)(nndt~ Alexandra an entirely new aod I1~W "lid major Johannesburg is ii major social social problem has arisen, of which Joh'ln(l~$ll\lr/l unaware-but which affects the lives of everyone in in Jvllilrlnes· jtvAhanoes uC\\lware--buc burg directly the time. directly or indirectly indirectly all tbe regulation mm:elll' concern. The problem problem is this. Because of a new reguilltion ing the influx of African labour into the elty, city, no Atrican African who 11 wh,' is not born in Johannesburg, no African, rnth~r, rather, who {Mllmt tannt not Johannesburg, noA£riclln, prove that to seek or to firid w
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them later); but none may come into inw the ciey city with the I'Hrpose pitrpose of working unless he can and dllmidlc, domicile Nt)w Now enn prove birth lind Alexandra Johannesburg. Although it exi$tl exists Alexandra Township isis not Johalluesburg. and 11M has always although iC$ its lIIwlIYs existed to serve Johannesburg: Johannesburg: lIlthough householders, hOllseholders, its tenants, its sub-tenants sub-tenants lire taht)()f are the the' lal ur force of Alex the city: dty: and although the only reason why they live in AlexJohannesburg. is not )ohnmlc,butA· its proximity-.it proximity-it b is because of itll andra nndra is Strangely enough, it only becomes becumes interesting int<:re.~ting to tt) the City comnfort ble immensey rich and Council Council and citizens of that tbat immensely al1d (Ill!lf\lft~bl(! place when, in indreams of further expilflsiu(l expainsion norchwunl, northward, it is is felt spx)t ":: Ita menace. menace. Then "lihen it ha~ hai ,i~ni. signi to be a barrier: aa""black black sjX)! ficance. regulation an,\lhe and the fi~(ce­ fierce ficance, To-day-because To,day-becAuse of this new re,l{LJ!~tion being enforced, ness with which it is is heing cnfofred. hundreds hundreds of yowigsters yt1\HJg51<:tS who have been bom bxorn there are gangsters und and wbo Itce being turned tllrned iinto nco ,l{anllscl'u labelled Alexandra are rotting labelled .."tsotsis." The boys of {)f Alexandr!l rottin!,! away I\Wlly in the overcrowded streets, at the corners overcrowded yards, in the dusty meeu, corners And and on the alleys-beCalM' alleys-becauss they cannot get out In to 14'o1'k work '!'1m evon if if Ihey (,(UltlQ; gel (1111 they 1QI1nt want to. Absalom's father isis working I1tthe at the 0,1<:. O.K. Balel1:1.t$, Bazaars. He has been there for fifteen yeats years Rlld and more, nnd and in ill the course (OUCIIt' of that time he has his own (lnlpcrty property in the hIlS managed to buy hi~ township. He h,\s has a lQrg~ large fUmily, family, and Absalom is is the olde,;t oldest nod Ab~llltlln bo' and has just left SChtXll. school. He le isn't clever. ./\.0<1 boy im'! very dever, in lilly And in any case educate there's I10 c;ase with five more children children to ttl educacc. no hope for him him of a boarding-schoo! boarding-school where he might be able to [mill train for he ahle teaching. The only course is :la job in t