State In A State
GOME stamps acquire a special significance only some time after they have been issued. Such a stamp is this South African issue marking the first meeting of the Legislative Assembly of the Transkei.
When it first appeared in December, 1963, no-one imagined that the event it celebrated would lead within less than three years to the assassination of the South African Prime Minister. Dr. Verwoerd, advocate of "separate development” for the white and coloured races, was struck down as he sat in Parliament—murdered by a white man who was reported to have considered that the Prime Minister was doing too much for the black races and not enough for the white. Not everyone realises that there is in South Africa today another Parliament in regular session where all the faces are black. This is the Legislative Assembly of the Transkei, and it sits in Umtata in the building depicted on the stamp. Larger than Switzerland in size, the Transkei is the first of the “Bantustans”—a state-within-a-state where “one man, one vote” is the rule. It was one of Dr. Verwoerd’s 1
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31209, 5 November 1966, Page 12
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