Cable Briefs

Press, 22 February 1978, Page 8

Cable Briefs

Zulus vote Ethnic Zulus, South Africa’s largest population 'group, have begun voting in ( the first legislative elections lof the Kwazulu Bantustan. | Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, i leader of . the 5.2 million Zulus, is assurer of total victory since his political organisation Inkatha is the only one to field candidates except for 21 independents. In addition, 38 of the 55 Parliamentarians are appointed tribal chiefs. Voting will take place both in Kwazulu — a group of 48 parcels of land, to be combined into 10 later, in Natal province — as well as in South Africa’s so-called white urban areas where; most Zulu ethnics live. Chief] Buthelezi repeatedly made clear that he would notj accept Kwazulu’s indepen-; dence as envisaged by Pre-; toria and his political platform emphasised the liberation of black South Africans in general. — Johannesburg.

Carolling innocent Carol singing is not sinister and carollers do not constitute a riotous assembly, a Johannesburg magistrate has ruled He cautioned and discharged 32 people, blacks and whites, who sang carols outside the John Vorster Square police headquarters on December 20. They had been arrested and charged under the Riotous Assemblies Act. The magistrate (Mr J. A. Van Dam) told the caroilers: “I don’t know why this matter came to court . . On the evidence before this court there was nothing sinister that, could be attached to this particular gathering.” — Johannesburg.