House of

and Donges,
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policy speech
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Coloreds next on
Strijdom’s list

professional services and the
like provided the colored peo-
the needs of

heir
yn. Donges will decide
whether the colored people
are in a position to: meet the
needs of their own community.
In other words, Donges re-
tains the power to grant lic-
Ace white business and
-ofessional men to operate
in the “colored group areas.”

Indeed, all this should be
obvious. The basic purpose of
the “group areas” system is to
reduce the non-white popula-
tion to the level of servants
of the .white ruling class. No
serious observer of the South
African scene believes that the
white ruling class is prcpor-
ed to sacrifice the substantial

ences to

purchasing power of the non-
white population.
Dealing with the political

future of the colored peaple,
Donges said there would he a
full-scale Department of Col-
yred Affairs (the present de-
partment will extend its ac-
tivities), a “National Council”
would serve as “the
mouthpiece of the colored peo-
a nominated senator and
elected members of par-
1ent (the senator and the
s will be whites).

The purpose of this elab-
machinery is to block
the emergence of truly repre-

which

orate

sentative colored opinion on
every possible front. Donges

is determined that his stooges
will speak in the name of the
colored people: that he will be
ak to commit the most ter-
rible injustices against the
colored people and be public
ly blessed for it by the col-
ored siooges on his “National

e

> ored

Colored demonstrators in Cape Town, are shown (left) protesting, the South African
policies. Picture at right shows police at Durban attacking Africans and Indians following clashes provoked by the govern-

Council” and by his stooge
senator.
The one weak link in Dr

Donges’s chain is the provis-
ion for four elected MPs. If
the colored people wish it.
these four MPs, although they
would be white, could be ef-
fective opponents of the zZov-
ernment’s policy, and they
could repudiate the utteranc-

es of the stooge representa-
tives. But this question is

bound up with the whole is-
su of the attitude of the col-
ored people to these elections
and the next general election.

*

Donges also dealt with an-
other important aspect of che
future of the colored peopie:
colored education.

His approach to colored ad-
ults and children alike was
that of a teacher to delin-
quent children, He even had
the impertinence to say thal
the colored people should he
taught “to make the best use
of their spare time.” As some
one asked, does this mean
working for farmers’ on- their
day off?

Colored education should be
designed so that the colored
people would receive “far
greater practical and techni-
cal training to fit them for
their daily tasks,” said Don-
ges. This is exactly the same
as Bantu education which
teaches the African child to
plow a straight furrow and
to say “Dankie, Baas,’’ when
he is finished

Donges also gave the col-
people the wonderful
news that they are going to
have their own tribal ‘“um-
versity” in the Western Prov-
ince.

Here, presumably, the daily

time-table will correspond to
the daily tasks facing the col-
ored student in after-school
life: a brief grounding in Eng-
lish and Afrikaans to ensure
that the colored worker un-
derstands elementary instruc-
tions; a rather more thorough
grounding in agriculture so
that the farmer can safely
leave the farm in his coiored
worker’s charge wlcle he goes

Nationalist government’s apartheid }

shooting. buck; and a know’)
ledge of theology, so that the
colored worker can thank the
Lord in the correct terms 4
night for his blessings.

The colored population of |
South Africa, Jike their 4Y
rican and Indian brothers, 0
know: precisely what Dr. Dot
ges has in mind for them. 4
leaves them no alternative pit
militant struggle.

As day was

All about,

tt

As day was

Children lie

Mushrooms

Down in the meadow
This May morning
I saw a gay mushroom

And round about,

Fairies danced, Se)
Scattering the dewdrops
As they pranced.

And children ran

Bare foot through the grass
Rejoicing at the wonder
That had come to pass.

Out in the Pacific
This May morning
A mushroom loomed

A white-hot mushrooin
Rose in the sky,
And ashes descended,
Deadly and dry.

And a million crippled

In the poisonous shadow, \
And bitterly cry... .

dawning.

5 t

dawning.

PETER TEMPEST

MAY 24, 1957 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE #