PROTEST BY AFRICANS
Police Arrest Youths ’ fNJE. Press Association— Copy right) (Rec. 11 pjn.) JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 12. Armed police today arrested eight African youths in the African suburb of Sophiatown where they were allegedly trying to enforce a “one-day strike’* against a plan to resettle African families. Before dawn, the youths raised a clamour by banging pieces of iron on the metal telegraph poles and later crowded around bus stops. Police said that the “strikers” were unsuccessful in their efforts to keep workers at home. Sophiatown was the first of the native suburbs in the western areas of Johannesburg to be affected by the Government’s mass movement of Africans to a new settlement. Reinforced police patrols were ordered out in Sophiatown for the week-end in case of trouble over the Government’s evacuation policy. About 150 families were moved to the new settlement of Meadowlands, 10 miles away, last Wednesday. Resettlement officers intend to move more families next week. All assemblies have been banned in the suburb while the evacuation order is being enforced. z .
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27583, 14 February 1955, Page 11
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