Smith’s ‘Separate Development’

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31439, 4 August 1967, Page 9

Smith’s ‘Separate Development’

(N.Z. P.A. -Reuter—Copyright)

SALISBURY, August 3.

A policy of “separate development for Rhodesia”—a phrase which has been attacked by opponents as merely another term for apartheid—was endorsed by the Prime Minister, Mr lan Smith, yesterday.

Mr Smith told Parliament that Rhodesia’s, present policy was to ensure that separate communities had the opportunity of advancing while maintaining their own customs and ways of living. Speaking during debate on an opposition motion expressing concern over the Government’s policy, he said that whatever people liked to call it, Rhodesia’s policy today was what it had always been. Traditional ways of life all over the world were being overthrown and replaced by

systems supposed to be based on liberalism, but which sprang from communism. In a number of countries to the north there were continual changes of government and people were continually being slaughtered and massacred. In Rhodesia there was a difference, he said.

Parliament was being asked to express concern over retaining her well-tried system which stamped her as one of the truly civilised countries ,of Africa.