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PORT ELIZABETH.^JpWENTY men were killed

last week in a violent clash between supporters and oppo­nents of Bantu Authorities in Tembuland. It is feared that the death toll may mount to thirty, as a number of very seriously wounded admitted to hospital are expected to die.

The clash took place at Mqanduli, about thirty miles from Umtata.

Reports from the Tsolo district say that the position there is also very tense and that the police are arrestine large numbers of people.‘BUSH COURT DESTROYED

In the Cala district. Chief Matan- zima’s Bantu Authorities Court at Askaton was completely destroyed by fire on the night of December 11.

This happened the day before the ‘Bush Court’, presided over by Matanzima personally, sat to try case of thirteen women and six rnen on a charge of cutting thatching grass without a permit.

The accused had previously been convicted by the Cofimvaba BAD Commissioner for contempt of court for failing to attend the‘Bush Court’ when summonsed to do so.

Shortly after the women had had their fines paid, a number of cattle from the homes of the convicted women were attached by Matan- zinia’s messengers, without any ex­planation for this action being offered to the owners. The cattle were sold.

TENSION ERUPTSThe tension that built up round

the incident erupted in an outburst of arson. Five homes belonging to supporters of Bantu Authorities were destroyed, together with a dip­ping tank.

Among the homes burnt down are those of Headman Mwelase of Tsengiwe Location and that of sub­headman Mqameni of Mnxe loca­tion.

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tection, but the BAD Commissioner has not yet provided these refugee families with accommodation in the village.

As no one in the are** is prepared to give them shelter, the families have banded together and are now living in the open.

Three men have been arrested on a charge of arson arising out of these disturbances. They are Messrs. Alven Yengiwe, George Mlandu andillllllllllllltlllilllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllll!

I NO PRESENTS | I FOR THEM! IS JQ^AST week the wife of the s S Commissioner — General = = appealed for Xmas presents for = S the troops now operating in = E Pondoland. ES At first the whites in Umtata E E resptpded'by donating money, ^ S but it was not long before the = E people warned the traders that = = if they continued to support = = the Government the whole E S town of Umtata would be boy- s = cotted. =E The Mayoress immediately = = withdrew from the Committee = E and the local traders came out E E openly against the scheme, =illlllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllliml

Sipo Ngamlana.The case has been set down for

December 30.

Vol. 7, No. 11. Registered at the G.P.O. as a Newspaper

NORTHERN EDITION Thursday, December 29, 1960

HUNDREDS GAOLED INEMERGENCY AREAS

Scores of Teachers AffectedPORT ELIZABETH.

In a sinister conspiracy of silence, hundreds of people are being hurled into gaols in the Transkei under the Emergency Regulations, which now cover the 26 magisterial districts in that area.

Scores of teachers who were for­merly associated with the now de­funct Cape African Teachers Association and the NEUM have been dragged into jail.

Amongst those who have been arrested under the Emergency Regu­lations are:—T. T »olsi. now a trader in the Tso- mo district; S. Njaniela, an articled clerk; Zokwe, a retired teacher; R. S. Canca and D. Koyana, both At­

torneys at Idutywa; G. S. Ntloko, a former Lecturer at Fort Hare and now articled by R. S. Canca; Don Maja, a teacher and N. Honono, a Managing-Director of an Insurance Company.

Then there are the hundreds of brave and unnamed peasants in Pondoland and the rest of the Transkei, more partkulalry the Tembuland area, who have frus­trated the Nationalist Government efforts at implementing the Bantu Authorities. They are being jam- packed in the Transkei gaols.

“KONGO” ACTIVITIESThe whole-sale, arbitrary arrests

began soon after the Emergency was declared in Pondoland and the Transkei. Reports of men being ar­rested for failure to produce pass­books are f1i>oding in to New Age.

The Flagstaff area, and particu­

larly the Hewahlwazi and Nkozo locations, has been hard-hit. Workers at the Holy Cross Hospital were arrested on their way home, right outside the Mission fence.

The men report that when they were thrown into the police vans, on one pretext or another, they were manhandled by the police, who de­manded information about the “Kongo” and its activities.

AGRICULTURE DISRUPTEDEven the agricultural activities of

the people are being disrupted by the police. The people are expres­sing concern that as a result they may not be able to grow any food for the next season.

In one location the police broke up a group of about 30 men and women who had gathered in a co­operative team (Ilima) to hoe some land.

The police claimed this was a gathering of more than 10 people and tired shots to disperse the peasants. Tlie people ran into the forest in the Mcelu location. The

police radioed for reinforcements and five more vans came to the scene and ten men were rounded up in the forest. Amongst them are Ngcaukana and Dangala Njisane, Don Tshiswayo, Swelindawo and Sunstw'ana Mneedwa.

CHIEFS SCAREDAfrican police are being drafted

from all main centres in the country to assume duties as “Guards” for the unpopular chiefs. Senior police are training chiefs’ storrnjaers in the use of arms and terroristic methods.

In Pondoland, however, where partically all the chiefs who support the Government have fled and are living in refugee cami>s, the police are finding it difficult to organise' any storrnjaers. The chiefs, more­over are unwilling to return to their locations inspite of police assur­ances. As a result, the police are themselves undertaking the work of “Home Guards” for the few chiefs whom they have managed to per­suade to return to their homes.

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4N E W A C E

lETIER BOXMY JAIL-BIRD HUSBAND

The City Council of Johannes­burg, the Bantu Affairs Depart­ment and the Department of Injustice both of the gangster Nationalist Government — have all persistently and systematically since 1956 been endeavouring to convert my husband into a Profes­sional Jail-Bird.

During this period, he has twice been arrested and convicted under the notorious Native Poll Tax Laws, twice been summoned to appear in court and once con­victed under the Native Urban Areas laws, permits and regula­tions and once arrested under the vicious Emergency Regulations and forcefully detained for four months and four days.

The latest attack on this dear husband of mine occurred on Thursday evening, 8th December, 1960, when at 7.30 p.m. five black- uniformed. sweat-and-beer-smelling arrogant Johannesburg Municipal Police came to our house and asked for him. He was late home that night, and when I demanded to know what they wanted him for, they reluctantly said the super­intendent wanted to see him and they left.

When our two kids saw them leaving the yard they came run­ning to me terrified and shocked to speechlessness and wanted to know whether the “police have taken our Papa again?” They could not believe anything told them to the contrary until their Papa came and only then did they go to bed.

vSo at* last it happened, and at 11 p.m. the same policemen knocked contemptuously at both the front and back doors shouting “Polsa!” He opened for them. Alt they told him w'as that he was under arrest and was to anpear at the Kliptown Magistrate's Court for contempt of court following, they alleged, his failure to respond to a summons to anpear at the said court on the 28th September,

To the People of Pondoland

Let every peace-loving African sympathise with you over the struggle you are facing with bare hands.

The hour has come for every oppiressed African on the Con­tinent to co-operate with his fol­lows in the strugEgle for the libera­tion of the oppressed peoples of the dark Continent.

Now the Pondos, our beloved brothers, are showing their resent­ment over the implementation of the Bantu Authorities Act imposed without the consent of the people of the country. Yet they are the people who have to suffer from it.

May the year of our Lord Jesus Christ, 1961, be born with confid­ence. and a good co-operative sipirit in African people's heart for the struggle of Freedom in this our life time.

T. Phil-Somerset.CAPE TOWN

This week's donations:

N. and J. £3, Hugh Forbes £1 1.5s., F. M. Joyner £1, Tickets £2 5s., K. and M. £10, Sadie for Lionel's birthday £3 3s., A.S. £3 10s., Dora £5. C.B £3, Ray £1 10s.Port Fli/abeth:

Workers’ Friend £9, Wagon Wheels £8.DURBAN:

V. and C. £13, Nad £2.Grand Total: £66-3-0.

1960. They took him to the local superintendent's office then to Moroka Police Station where he spent the night together with about forty others.

At this office they were hand­cuffed together — four of them — and told they were to march to Moroka Police Station. He ob­jected yehemently against this but when he was supported by neither of his fellow prisoners, he was savagely pushed out and escorted to the police station early in the morning.

When he appeared in court he was charged for failing to pay rent and given until 31st Decem­ber, I960, to pay his rent arrears of £6 and sentenced to ten days in jail or £1 fine which he paid. The prosecutor decided not to proceed with the contempt of court charge.

T am almost certain that my experience is quite common to and familiar with that of hundreds of thousands of other mothers and wiyes. But now that the ruling class is determined to convert my husband into a habitual, profes­sional Jail-Bird. I am, on the other hand, dedicated to convert him into a Professional Revolu­tionary and consolidate his deter­mination and joy in fighting for the realisation of his political ideals and the complete liberation of his country and people.

AFRIKA!

Sports Programme To Prevent Crime

We are making this experiment of proyiding for more recreational activities with the sole aim of reducing numbers of people who either get murdered or assaulted or involved in motor-car accidents over this last week-end of the year.

We have decided to stage the most attractive soccer orogramme as from the 31.12.60 to the 2.1.61. In doing so wc would like to re­move Johannesburg public from the streets drinking brawls to the Bantu Sports.

To make this programme more attractive ton clubs of Durban are coming to play our local top clubs. If this idea proves a success we will continue doing so even next year with a much more improved programme.

An appeal is therefore made to the public to take advantage of this opportunity. Amongst the top clubs which will take part in this programme are: Zulu Royals ofDurban, Moroka Swallows, Orlan­do Pirates, Hungry Lrons, Mofolo Dynamos, Rock Ridge, Nice Time Sweepers, Sea Robbers, Western Callies, White City Lucky Brothers, Zidla Zivele Brothers, Newport of Johannesburg and the Krugersdorp Gunners of Krugers- dorp.

For more details contact me at 1517 Dube Village, Johannesburg (near the Vocational Training In­stitution, Orlando). Any clubs wishing to take part in this pro­gramme must contact me at the same address before the 23rd De­cember, 1960.

Any donations to make this programme a success will be wel­comed. Food and refreshments will be provided for at the grounds at a reasonable price.

D. THEO. NKOSIPresident,Orlando AFA.

ALL ARTS MENACED BY CENSORSHIP RILL

-Soys New Age MemoOne of the worst features of the

Bill is that it seeks to control not merely the production of books, periodicals and newspapers, but all media for the circulation of ideas.

In terms of clause '5 of the Bill, the Publications Board may, by notice in the Goyernment Gazette or to the person concerned, prohibit the manufacture, printing, publish­ing, distribution, display, exhibition or sale of any—

1. book, periodical, pamphlet, poster or other printed matter, other than a newspaper;

2. writing;3. drawing, picture, painting,

wood-cut or similar represen­tation;

4. print, photograph, engraving or lithograph;

5. figure, cast, statue or model; or

6. record or other contrivance or device in which or on which sound has been recorded for reproduction.

FILMSClauses 7 and 8 cover the censor­

ship of films, which is to be made much more stringent than at pre­sent.

The Publications Board is catego­rically instructed not to approve any film which—

(a) depicts any matter that pre­judicially affects the safety of the State;

(b) shall have the effect of—1. disturbing peace or good

order;2. prejudicing the general wel-

fare;3. being oRensive to decency;4. giving offence to the religious

convictions or feelings of any section of the inhabitants of

NEW AGE REPORT CORRECTED

The report which appeared in the New Age of the 8.12.60 that Vuka-Mzi Party clearly and delib­erately supports the Government’s policies is an offence against the tnith. election propaganda aimed at discrediting the party.

Vuka - Mzi Party has never attacked any party for interfering in national affairs such as passes and permits, nor any passed legis­lation.

The Party's opposition to the Advisory Board’s system which has the blessing of all the African National Organisations because they are dummy institutions of no avail to our aspirations. The Board’s demands were never enter­tained by the Government in any discussion pertaining to its policies.

The Party wishes Africans to be represented in all the legislative bodies of the country. The Village Councils we had in mirKl were to be run on a ward system,employed bv town councils. They have no relationship to Bantu Authorities. Your correspondent has missed the point, and mi.srepresented the aims and objects of Vuka-Mzi Party.

VUKA-MZI

Wind of Change RisingMr. Harold Macmillan’s speech

about the winds of change is coming true. Although the Ver- woerd government is aware that South Africa’s name is low they are not prepared to concede that this is because of their policy of apartheid which will never work. Tbey are following the line of Nazi Germany, and this will lead to their downfall.

Freedom in our lifetime!I. MASINGA

Kimberley.

the Union;5. bringing any section of the in­

habitants of the Union into ridicule or contempt;

6. harming relations between any sections of the inhabitants ot the Union;

7. propagating or promoting communism, as defined in the Suppression of Communism Act.

(c) depicts in an offensive man­ner—

1. the head of the State;2. the Union’s armed forces or

any member thereof;3. death;4. human figures;5. love scenes;6. controversial or international

politics;7. public characters;8. juvenile crime;9. criminality and the technique

of crime;10. brutal fighting;11. drunkenness and brawling;12. addiction to drugs;13. scenes of violence involving

white and non-white persons;14. intermingling of white and

non-white persons;15. violence towards or ill-treat­

ment of women or children.Many of these criteria of censor­

ship are already applied arbitrarily, and with most unfortunate results, by the existing Censorship Board, especially in relation to films in­tended for Non-White consumption. Now the list of prohibitions is to be extended and applied generally to all sections of the populatjpn, in­cluding Whites.

STAGE SHOWSClau.se 9 of the Bill gives the

Publications Board power to ban any other form of public entertain­ment.

In all cases the powers given are so wide that it is hard to think of any films, stage shows or art exhibi­tions which might not be considered undesirable for one reason or another. Whether or not action would be likely to be taken is beside the point; the fact is that legally if could be taken, the film or stage show or art exhibition could he banned, and the imptirter, pro­moter or artist would be deprived of all redress in the courts.

All in all, it is clear that the Gov­ernment hones to arm itself with powers which will enable it to con­trol the free circulation of ideas to all sections of the population so drastically as to con^itute a clear violation of Article 19 of the United Nations Charter of Human Rights. If the Bill becomes law. South Africans of all races will be de­prived of the “freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart informa­tion and ideas through anv media and regardless of frontiers.”

NO MANDATEWe submit that the Government

possesses no mandate to dictate to the people what they should think, what they should read and what they should say to one another.

The present Nationalist Govern­ment commands the support of only 52 per cent of the total votes cast in the recent referendum—that is, a very bare majority of the European population. All sections of the Non-European population are deprived of any real say in the government of the country, and were completely excluded from the referendum itself.

The problems which confront the Government in regard to censorship flow precisely from its position of weakness in relation to public opinion as a whole—for public opinion is not, as the Government seems to think, the opinion of Europeans only, but the opinion of the whole people. Black as well as White.

Only 850,000 White people voted for the Government’s policies in the referendum—but there are 15 million citizens of all races in South Africa. It Is because the Govern­ment is trying to force the 15 mil­lion willy-nilly to accept the moral standards and political policies of the 850,000 that it has to resort to ever more unacceptable methods of compul <io«.

FORCE WILL FAILWe wish to stress that in South

Africa, as in all other countries, policies based on force and terror will fail to achieve their object. Only those policies which are based on the consent of the majority of the people can succeed.

Ideas which are prohibited by arbitrary decree, but which find an echo in the hearts of the people, will be propagated by underground means. Censorship will be met by various devices of evasion and cir­cumvention, and ultimately by full- blooded resistance and revolt. This is a lesson of history from which our country will not be exempt.

TTie Government must appreciate that its responsibilities to the people are the greater, not the less, because it is a minority Government. In the position of weakness in which it finds itself, it behoves a minority Government like the present Gov­ernment to think more in terms of conciliation than of compulsion. To bring about a healthier relationship between the diverse sections of our multi-racial community, we need a freer exchange of ideas, more tolerance, more willingness to live and let live, greater consideration for the other man’s ooint of view.

MINIMUM CONTROLWe do not advocate that there

should be absolutely no control whatsoever over the importation, printing and publication of books, films, newsnapers and periodicals in South Africa. Some measure of control may be necessary—for in­stance to prevent the circulation of sex and horror comics and outright pornographic trash.

However, we feel the Govern­ment is treading on dangerous ground when it proposes to extend the domain of control to cover serious publications in the artistic, political and sociological spheres. Already the number and character of works banned from importation into the country under the Customs Act has. in our opinion, far ex­ceeded the bounds of necessity, and it is obviously the Government’s intention to apply similar standards in connection with internal censor­ship.

We suggest that the extent of Government control over the circu­lation of ideas should be reduced to the absolute minimum necessary for good government and harmonious social relationships. The present Bill, by contrast, vests the Govern­ment with the absolute maximum of powers of interference, and must in­evitably lead to controversy, con­flict, intellectual impoverishment and ultimate disaster.

In our opinion, the press is already overburdened with measures of control and restriction, which have been used, for example, to ban, completely without justifica­tion, the newspar>ers Guardian and Advance and to hamper the free ex­pression of opinion and even the reporting of facts in the press generally.

We therefore request the pre­sent Bill should be compl^ely withdrawn and, to adapt the words of Dr. du Plessis, that the Government put right the things which are wrong with our na­tional fife rather than attempt to silence the critics who draw attention to them.

(Concluded)

THE PBOGRESSIVE PARTY ANDTHE VOTE

"CKJR almost two years the Progressive Party has been trying to work out its franchise policy. This year’s conference of the Party decided the

issue, after studying the report of the experts.The specialists laid down that the test for civilisation, in other words

the qualifications for the vote, should be the “economic level”, the “degree of sophistication”, and the “responsibility” of the citizen. White or Non-White.

IN FACT THE TESTS EXCLUDE THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE NON-WHITE PEOPLE AND WILL ENTRENCH THE WHITE MINORITY AS THE ‘BAASSKAP’ GROUP.

The Progressive Party qualifica­tions for the vote are as follows:

• You must have passed standard four and earn at least £25 a month, or

I You must own or occupy property worth at least £500, or

• You must have passed standard eight, or

• You must be barely literate but have had an income for at least two years of £500 p.a., or

• You must be married to a per­son having the income and property qualifications.

CONGRESS POLICYThe Congress movement stands

for a policy of ONE MAN, ONE VOTE.

Till there is universal suffrage, there can be no democracy in South Africa, say the Congresses. Educa­tion and decent wages are the desire of all South Africans, but history has shown that until a democratic

peoples’ government has power to legislate, there will not be enough schools, nor decent working condi­tions and wages.

The Freedom Charter is explicit on this point. It states:The People shall Govern.• Every man and woman shall have

the right to vote for and to stand as a candidate for all bodies which make laws.

• All people shall be entitled to take part in the administration of the country.

• All bodies of minority rule, ad­visory boards, councils and author­ities shall be replaced by demo­cratic organs of self-government.

George Peake To Contest Council

ElectionsCAPE TOWN.

The Ward Six Workers Civic League has nominated Mr. George Peake, former treason trialist and member of the S.A. Coloured People’s Congress executive, as one of a ticket of three candidates in the forthcoming municipal elections.

Mr. Peake will stand for election with Councillors H. Parker and Mrs. Z. Gool. Mr. Peake also replaces sitting Councillor Mr. Edgar Deane on the League’s ticket.

Mr. E>eane was one of those who signed a public statement calling on the Coloureds not to support the Africans in the campaigns which led to the state of emergency.

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Are These Leaders Not FitTo Vote?

To prove how discriminatory the Progressive Party franchise qualifi­cations are, and how education and wages earned and property owned are not the tests of a man’s ability to lead, his responsibility as a citi­zen, or his ’degree of sophistication’, NEW AGE here presents six Non­

MAULVI GACHALIA

TRADERS URGED TO NEGOTIATE W ITH PONDOS

JOHANNESBURG. VY^HITE traderi could bring an

end to the Pondoland boy­cott of white shops by negotiating directly with the Pondos, and showing their sympathy with the Pondo struggle against Bantu Au­thorities.

This, says Mr. Ben Turok, Afri­can representative in the Cape Pro­vincial Council, would be a way out of the present impasse, and is the suggestion he makes to the Civic Associations of Port St. Johns, Bizana, Flagstaff, Tabankulu, Lu- sikisiki and Mount Ayliff.

Mr. Turok has written to these Civic Associations after a tour of Pondoland to look into the true causes of tension in the area. Des­pite what the Government says, the trouble has been brought about by the enforcement of the Bantu Au­thorities system which has created bitter resentment among the Pondo people, says Mr. Turok.

FACE RUINThe uncompromising stand of the

Government forbodes a long- drawn-out state of deep unrest in Pondoland, he writes.

The boycott of the traders is

likely to continue, and the traders now face financial ruin. “I would like to suggest that the traders may have it within their power to bring an end to the boycott” writes Mr. Turok.

‘‘It must be recognised that the boycott is not simply an “anti-white” gesture but that the Pondo people have seized on this as a way of demonstrating their hostility to the Government.

“The White residents have been brought into the thick of the con­flict between the Pondos and the authorities and they can no longer afford to remain aloof from the problems of the area.

“The attitude of the Pondos ap­pears to be that if the Whites hope to continue to make a living in Pondoland they must reassess their attitude to the Pondo people and show their sympathy to the Pondos in their struggle against Bantu Authorities in a more positive way.

“I am sure that direct negotiation with the Pondo p>eople, as was done by a trader in Flagstaff recently, and a united and outspoken statement by your members would have the effect of easing the boycott”.

White leaders taken at random who will not get the vote under the Progressive Party plan.

★MR. GERT SIBANDE — the LION

OF THE EAST.There can be no doubt that if

Mr. Gert Sibande stood for election in the Eastern Transvaal he would walk to Parliament. For years he has struggled to improve the condi­tions of some of the worst exploited workers in South Africa: the farm labourers of Bethal and the mealie triangle.

He has braved guards and savage dogs to go into the closed, locked compounds of Bethal to speak to contract farm labourers, to find out the truth about their conditions. He has made a name for himself throughout the country for his fear­less championing of the cause of the farm workers . . . and his fame echoes even as far north as Nyasa- land, for many unfortunate Nyasa- landers end up on Bethal farms, and have been helped by Gert Sibande.

Gert Sibande has written directly to two prime ministers. Dr. Malan and Dr. Verwoerd, on the plight of the farm workers; he has given evidence before Commissions. He was Transvaal president of the now banned African National Congress, and a member of the ANC National Executive.

But he is only just literate, he has never been to school, he owns no property, and thanks to the perse­cution of the Government, has been prevented from earning any income at all, let alone £25 a month.

Loved by many thousands of Africans on the farms and in the country areas and respected by all political leaders who have had any dealings with him, Gert Sibande would not get the vote under the plan of the Progressive Party.

★MAULVI ISMAIL AHMED CA- CHALIA, eminent Islamic theolo­gian, teacher and leader, would not get the vote under the Progressive Party plan.

Maulvi Cachalia is a councillor of the South African Indian Con­gress, former secretary of the Trans­vaal Indian Congress, member of a family prominent in all Indian struggles in the Union since the first protests led by Mahatma Gandhi.

But Maulvi went to school in South Africa only as far as standard four, and before he passed that class, went to India to study theol­ogy there. He has University quali­fications in India as a minister of religion and also a teacher, but these qualifications are not recog­nised in the Union.

Crown counsel in the Treason Trial referred to Maulvi Cachalia as an expert on the Group Areas Act — but he does not qualify as a responsible or sophisticated citizen under the Progressive Party vote plan.

MRS. MARY MOODLEY, well- known Coloured leader in Benoni, a member of the executive of the South African Coloured People’s Congress, and of the Federation of South African Women, is the person to whom Benoni Indians and Col­oureds turn when they are in dis­tress.

Her family battled to keep her at school till standard six — but Mrs. Moodley does not earn £25 u month.

★MRS. A. MOKHOTI of Jabavu Township, an executive member of the African National Congress Women’s League and one of the leaders of the rent protest of the women of Jabavu, is another highly respected local leader who does not qualify for the vote.

★MR. DAVID MAHOPO, former member of the Transvaal executive of the African National Congress and one of its provincial organisers, who was also chairman of the Sophiatown ANC and volunteer-in­chief, does not qualify.

★MR. W. MATLALI has been a member of the Johannesburg East­ern Native Township Advisory Board for a number of years. An eloquent speaker, with a sound knowledge of local government affairs, he is liked and trusted by the people of his area. He does not qualify for the vote under the PP plan.

MR. GERT SIBANDE

BECHUANALAND’S

PEOPLE’S PARTYMAHALAPYE.

'^ H E newly-formed Bechuanaland -*■ People’s Party has now adopted

and circulated its constitution.The Party’s aims will be to organise

the political consciousness of the people of Bechuanaland; to incul­cate a spirit of national unity among the diverse and tribally divided inhabitants of Bechuanaland; to foster friendly relations with peoples of other lands; to combat all forms of colour or class discrim­ination; to help the youth get the best education and training; to strive for the Party’s representation in all important councils of state.

The constitution also says the Party will co-operate with the authorities (the Government, as well as the Chiefs and African authori­ties) as long as the objectives of the authorities are identical with those of the party, but that the party re­gards it as an inalienable right to expose and protest against oppres­sive or unjust measures.

The party will “employ the weap­ons of constitutional means and non-violence in the party’s struggle for the attainment of its aims”.

Bechuanaland, says the new party, must obtain internationally recog­nised independent status.

The president of the Party is Mr. K. T. Motsete; and its headquarters are at P.O. Box 5, Mahalapye, Bechuanaland Protectorate.

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