‘Apartheid Critics Should Clean Up Own Yards’

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28926, 20 June 1959, Page 13

‘Apartheid Critics Should Clean Up Own Yards’

(Rec. 11 p.m.) CAPE TOWN, June 19. Countries, which criticised Soutii Africa for racial discrimination should first clean up their own backyards, the South African Minister (Mr Eric Louw) said yesterday.

Mr Louw was speaking in defence of South Africa’s unofficial “ambassador at large” in New South Wales, Senator Thomas BoydelL Mr Louw told the Senate that the campaign was instigated by Mr W. A. P. Phillips, a former lecturer in history at the University of Natal. He said Mr Phillips had complained that Senator Boydell was biased and had described his lectures as not containing a single truth. Mr Louw said this had been followed up by certain newspapers and by the Council of Churches in Australia.

He said that the ban on Mr Boygell had nothing to do with “the Central Government” of Australia, but was imposed by the New South Wales Government—a “Socialist Government of whom that sort of thing could be expected.”

Mr Louw said Boydell was an example to every South African citizen.

He had studiously refrained from dealing with party politics in his lectures and had dealt with the separation between white and non-white which was the traditional policy of South Africa.

He had pointed out that in some countries there was greater racial discrimination than in South Africa. “In those countries there is a law against it. “In South Africa we are at least honest. We practice what we preach but they do not,” Mr Louw said.

He added that the attitude of every responsible and patriotic South African towards such charges should be that those countries should clean up their own backyards.

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