Diplomat resigns
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter— Copyright) JOHANNESBURG. Feb. 3. A former South African diplomat, Mr Melvyn Drummond, has resigned from his country’s United Nations mission in New York three days after marrying a black! West Indian girl. In an interview published! by the Rand “Daily Mail,”! Mr Drummond, who is now working in London, said that he married Miss Diana Ramrattan. of Trinidad, in an inter-faith chapel at the United Nations headquarters. An English-speaking South African, Mr Drummond described South Africa’s apartheid policy as anachronistic, and said that he had decided several months before leaving the mission that he would never return to the republic because of its policies. Mr Drummond complained specifically about “the gradual erosion and wiping out of values and standards of English-speaking South Africans by the exclusivist Afrikaner-dominated society.”j He added: “English-speak-l ing South Africans are re-| garded as second-class citizens in their own country. [. There is no place in it for! me. or for any black who! wants citizenship.” I
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33450, 4 February 1974, Page 17
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