South Africa
Sir, —The speech of the South African Consul-General, which you prominently reported, was obviously carefully prepared and cunningly phrased. If the sjambok is not much used today, the Africans are as effectively coerced by ruthless and cruel laws, including the colour bar, administered by police who are no angels. The booming economy of the country would collapse without African cheap labour. That many Africans enter it to work is because without the somewhat better conditions offered, African labour would be very short; even so, complaints of shortages in the gold mines are common. It is impossible in a letter to traverse the points made by Mr Oxley. As no South African Bantu would be allowed to present a more real picture, could you not print the article in the “Manchester Guardian Weekly” of September 30, entitled “Massive Campaign against Africans”? This would be a fair comment on Mr Oxley’s “Christian humility.”—Yours, etc., OBSERVER. October 10, 1965.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30879, 12 October 1965, Page 20
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