Found Africans Starving
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JOHANNESBURG, Dec. 30.
An Anglican bishop (the Rt. Rev. C. E. Crowther) today will ask the South African Government for a permit to revisit a Bantu reserve where last week he found 85 newly-arrived African families without food and “suffering indescribably.”
Bishop Crowther, aged 39, visited the families after they had been moved to the reserve from a squatters’
camp in a disused diamond mine. On discovering their plight, he went away to find food and returned to the reserve with a lorryload. A spokesman for the Bantu Affairs Department . in Pretoria said he was unaware that Africans moved to the reserve had been without food for days. He said they had been provided with decent housing. The Africans are among about 2000 to be resettled in Government reserves and homelands.
A department official said he had encountered no opposition from Africans to the scheme.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30947, 31 December 1965, Page 13
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