HOME SERVICE OVERSEAS

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31500, 14 October 1967, Page 12

HOME SERVICE OVERSEAS

By

WHIH WHAM

White housewives in South Africa may have to scrub their own floors and perform other menial fobs, according to a new warning from the nation's apartheid planners. For In the all-white State of the future envisaged bv the .Present Government the white population-accustomed from birth te having African servants fetch and carry for them—will have te do without African labour . . the Government, from the Prime Minister, Mr Vorster downward, is confident it can bo done, in time and with sacrifice and effort —Newt item. Sir, Tears bedew this Paper as I write. South Africa’s sad History unfolds Fresh Tragedy, this Time it is the White Whose Sufferings a fickle Future holds. The Housewife, white to her fine Fingertips, Who never stooped to wash, or scrub, or sweep, One Day (they say) must bravely come to Grips With ‘menial’ Tasks! Sir, copiously I weep! I have been waited on by ‘Coloured Folk* Where ‘Coloured Folk’ take Care of all these Chores. Pity and Indignation make me choke, To think of a White Housewife scrubbing Floors. Happy the Home where Drudgery’s designed Only for Those whose Backs were born to bear, — Happier if out of Sight and out of Mind They keep their Shame, their Squalor, and Despair. Kindness is Something, so is cheerful Labour, Short of a common Dignity ip Life. Sir, if we love (as love We should) our Neighbour, Shall we not heed the Cry of the White Wife? We’ve got the Housewives, able in their Trade. Sir, let’s prepare, and send Her in her Plight A Housewives* Volunteer All Black Brigade, To keep the Floors of Vorsterland scrubbed White!