‘General Explosion’ In S.A.

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30678, 18 February 1965, Page 15

‘General Explosion’ In S.A.

(N.Z. Preti .Awn.—Copyright! LONDON, Feb. 17.

The British Council of Churches warned in a book-length report on South Africa’s apartheid policy today that suppression of the country’s African majority population would lead to “a general explosion.”

The report, entitled “The Future of South Africa,” was prepared over a period of almost a year by a committee headed by the Rev. Kenneth Slack, general secretary of the British Council of Churches, an organisation representing most Protestant denominations in Britain.

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The committee included tin ! former Anglican Archbishop' of Cape Town, Archbishop Joost de Blank, an outspoken critic of South African racial | policies. The reports said the reality of apartheid is “not of Africans living in homelands where they enjoy an increasing measure of independence and self-realisation,” as the South African Government claimed. Rather, it had brought “a voteless proletariat which constantly increases in numbers as economic suction draws them (to cities) from the African reserves." More In Cities The report pointed out that between 1951 and 1960 the African urban population

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actually Increased by more than 40 per cent, in spite of Government’s attempts to (Amove Africans to semiJ, autonomous areas. Today, some 60 per cent , of all Africans lived in white I The report examined the \ argument for overthrowing t he Government by violence bi’it said the conditions for a ••iust war" do not exist at pi'•esent. In its examination of alt ernatives to the present poll. ’-y the working committee stuMett* possibilities of partition, a federal solution and a no n-raclal State. It \ judged a non-racial State t he most desirable, but emphasised' that any solution must c ome from “all the people” of South Africa.

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