APARTHEID ATTACKED
Criticism By Methodists (N.Z. Press Association— Copyright) (Rec. 11 p.m.) CAPE TOWN, August 2. The Rev. C. K. Storey, Presi-dent-elect of the Methodist Church of South Africa, said today that the promise of the Minister of the Interior (Dr. Theophilus Donges) to apply the Group Areas Act fairly must sound to thousands of South Africans like the hollow mockery of the devil’s laughter. The, act aims at establishing separate residential and trading areas for various races in South Africa. Mr Storey, who was addressing the Cape District Synod of the Methodist Church, said evidence and opinions expressed before the group areas board brought to light blind prejudice, belligerent antagonisms, and fear.
Meanwhile in the noh-white townships of Sophiatown and Pageview f near Johannesburg, 249 Chinese, Indians and people of
mixed race had made no move today to leave their homes. They had been ordered to leave so that “buffer strips” could be created between the white and non-white populations in the two towns.
The “strips” have been proclaimed under the group areas act.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28347, 5 August 1957, Page 11
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