AFRICANS IN RHODESIA

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28866, 10 April 1959, Page 11

AFRICANS IN RHODESIA

Moves Against Discrimination (N.Z Press Association—Copynght ) SALISBURY, April 8. Signs marking separate entrances for Africans and Europeans in Salisbury post offices were removed today, after the announcement by the Federal Prime Minister (Sir Roy Welensky) yesterday that post office segregation was to end in Southern Rhodesia. The Postmaster-General, Mr W. Davidson, said today that all branches in the territory would soon follow, suit. Another move to end the pinpricks of racial discrimination which were still causing strife and hardship was the announcement by the Southern Rhodesian Premier (Sir Edgar Whitehead) that Africans could now enter the civil service, the "Daily Mail” reported. Africans Pay Fines Nyasaland Africans were beginning to pay collective fines imposed on riot-torn districts and to repair damage caused by African nationalists in the recent disturbances, the American Associated Press reported from Blantyre.

Government officials were collecting fines in the Misuku hills in the Northern Province, which was the last area to be brought under control after an emergency was declared more than a month ago. In the Mlanje tea estate district in the Southern Province, Africans queued today to pay a collective fine of £8750 (30s a head).

At Kisungu, two African rebel ringleaders were each imprisoned for five years for having threatened the local population, led mobs, burnt a church and assaulted an African pastor. A number of white civilians announced today that they have formed a "Nyasaland information committee” to "undo the harm to justice, peace and democracy in Nyasaland that is being done by extremists in Britain.”