Apartheid Laws Part Family
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON. April 13. A young African cookboy has been forced by Southern Rhodesia’s colot i bar laws to live apart from his wife and baby, according to the “News Chronicle.” The couple worked for Mrs G. E. Humphries in the exclusive Salisbury suburb of Avondale. When the baby arrived a neighbour reported the matter to the Native Administration Department. An inspector told Mrs Humphries that only Africans in employment could live on European land in the municipal area. The cookboy and his wife could stay The baby had to go. So now the mother and baby live on the African location at Bulawayo—3oo miles away.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28253, 15 April 1957, Page 3
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