South Africa

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33628, 2 September 1974, Page 12

South Africa

Sir, —Messrs Lyons and Curn.ow suggest that Kenya and Tanzania are improvements on South Africa. Kenya and Tanzania are both “One Party States” with the opposition dead or in prison. In South Africa, the Opposition in the Bantustan Governments are alive and free. In Kenya and Tanzania 25 per cent of babies die through neglect, in South Africa only 1 per cent.die in the townships thanks to excellent clinics, and 10 per cent in the countryside. In Kenya, 90,000 Turkhana were alive before 1963, thanks to food supplied by the whites. Since independence the Turkhana have become almost extinct through the in* difference of Kenyan politicians. In South Africa the Asians thrive, in black-ruled Africa they are being expelled without compensation, or are being deprived of all property and rights. Nothing in separate development denies the Bantu the right to prosper, in fact the true situation is the reverse, i.e.: an African can become Prime Minister.—Yours, etc., VISITED SOUTH AFRICA TOO. August 30, 1974.