South Africa
Sir, —L. J. Jones misses the point of my letter, which was to request you to provide a comment on the High Commissioner’s speech by printing an account of the treatment of the Bantu from a newspaper from which you often publish, by arrangement special articles. I still hope you will do so. On the subject of African migration, Mt Jones might inquire what sort of land the Europeans have “reserved” for the Bantu. In South Africa itself, the soil-eroded reserves cannot support the Bantu population; Basutoland is mountainous and stony; Bechuanaland is mainly arid and drought-stricken (the best land is earmarked as European “concessions”); in Rhodesia the Land Apportionment Act leaves parched or tsetse-infested land to the African. If Mr Jones were a Bantu, what would he do? —Yours, etc., OBSERVER. October 18, 1965.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30886, 20 October 1965, Page 20
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