RACE SEGREGATION IN AFRICA
WELLINGTON LAWYER’S IMPRESSIONS (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 12. A visit to South Africa had left him disquieted, Mr G. G. G. Watson, a Wellington barrister and solicitor, told members of the Royal Empire Society in a luncheon address to-day. It was a shocking thing to a New Zealander, he said, to find in South Africa the modern application of the doctrine of segregation. When buying stamps in a .Cape Town post office, he had been told that he was at the wrong counter. The counter he was using was for coloured people only. This same policy of segregation applied to busstops or seats in a park. “It is not for me to criticise the policy,” said Mr Watson. “I merely say it leaves a disquieting impression, unallayed by the thought that the whites in South Africa are heavily outnumbered by the coloured people.”
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26395, 13 April 1951, Page 3
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