Apartheid

Press, Volume C, Issue 29712, 4 January 1962, Page 3

Apartheid

Sir, —In reply to John H. Wicks, I would like to say that as I have seen apartheid in action in South Africa the idea of an alternative is out of the question under the present political set-up. Not since the notorious Spanish I Inquisition has a continent I suffered so cruelly as has ISouth Africa, and indeed the I whole African State, in the ihands of the Europeans. The I matter has gone too far and the ugly morass has become too de6p for the Europeans to escape with a clear conscience. Accordingly. I hold little hope for either Dr. Verwoerd or Sir Villiers de Graaff. The winds of change are changing things too swiftly. Our only hope is j that we can rescue Africa, !and particularly South Africa, from reaction and communism. That, of course, will | depend on our having som“I thing better to offer the I Africans. —Yours, etc.. BARRY FENTON. . January 2, 1962.

Sir.—John H. Wicks asks for “a reasoned alternative to apartheid” that “would leave the minority whites with some security.” Has consideration ever been given to the “reasoned” plan that there should be a fairly stiff educational qualification for voters, black, white, or coloured. For a considerable time the whites would retain their power, and when it began to ebb away from them it would be into the hands, not of savages, but of men and women with trained i minds and a background of political experience.—Yours, etc.. V.C.D. January 2, 1962. Sir, —You seem to be completely unaware that by the

extravagance of censorship of apartheid. December 30, you are thereby creating all the same follies in your own turn. Interpretations are not absolute verities. And because I happen to disagree violently with interpretations of a lot of our “Christian” churches, it does not give me any right to wantonly interfere in their management. Yet that is apparently to be the case in South Africa; and however you may try to dismiss the past, it is still compounded in the present. Infomation of the inner workings of apartheid is to be found by hunting for them in the Public Library, as I had to do.—Yours, etc., COLONEL PRIGG. January 3, 1962.