Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Many articles have been written about South Africa and apartheid, but none as searching and balanced as your cover story "The Great White Laager" [Aug. 26]. As a patriotic but very anti apartheid white South African, I hope your story will serve as the writing on the wall for the thousands of my fellow white South Africans who will no doubt read it. Perhaps the greatest tragedy in South Africa is that there are so many sensible white South Africans who turn a deliberately blind eye to one of history's saddest, most inhuman situations...
...commend you for bringing South Africa's apartheid policies before your readers; those policies are a matter of grave international concern. My Subcommittee on Africa has been holding hearings on United States-South African Relations since March. While we heard considerable testimony from a score of expert witnesses, and extended an invitation to American businessmen and financiers, none of the latter seemed to think it advisable to testify, which I regret...
...have so frightened the South African government by your coyer story that they cannot make up their minds whether or not to let us read it. The censorship board will decide in three weeks, we are told. Though I have not been able to read the article, as a Canadian priest serving a "colored" community, I can affirm that apartheid is not only a delusion. It is a monstrous evil-blasphemous, antiChristian, immoral, inhuman and unjust. (THE REV.) R. L. W. RITCHIE Bloemfontein, South Africa...
...Jomo Kenyatta, is almost equally adamant. Arriving in London for the conference, Sierra Leone's Sir Albert Margai offered Britain an alternative: either invade or turn the whole affair over to the United Nations. Failing that, warned Sir Albert, Sierra Leone might quit the Commonwealth. Other black African nations might well do the same. But Britain's military resources are already stretched thin, and public opinion in Britain would not tolerate use of force against "kith and kin" in Rhodesia. Moreover there are the Commonwealth's white members to consider: Australia's Harold Holt is dead...
...first there was Djibouti. Djibouti is the coastal capital of French Somaliland (pop. 100,000), a tiny toothmark of rocks, desert and hot wind located on the African side of the mouth of the Red Sea. Its only notable product is a wine concocted from the doom palm, its principal source of income a narrow-gauge railway from Ethiopia to Djibouti's excellent port. Offered its independence in 1958, French Somaliland turned it down, and is now the only French colony in Africa. Three-quarters of the voters in a national plebiscite elected to retain their ties with France...