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...PARKER Durban, Natal, South Africa...
...head man of his village. Mdhlani married, prospered, begat children, grew old, respected and respectable. But one son, Clifford, became a thief and a gangster. Three years ago, son Clifford, all his bravado gone, crept into his father's hut. He whispered that he had murdered a white Durban policeman, and blubbered: "They will hang...
...veld, stayed there three days and three nights, praying to God for guidance. When he returned on the third night, he went straight to Clifford's hut, took one of Clifford's three pistols and killed his sleeping son. Then he surrendered to the police. In Durban police court, he said: "I shot my son because he killed a white man. Do what you will." Mdhlani was sentenced to hang...
Then, in a land where a Negro's life has little value, a strange event occurred. Led by Anne McTavish. a white Durban city councilor, scores of white women, leaders of their communit)-, went into the city streets and set up little tables with placards reading: "Save this old man from the gallows." In three days they collected 17,000 white signatures pleading with South Africa's Governor General Ernest George Jansen to reprieve 72-year-old Head Man Mdhlani. It was the first time in South Africa's history that so many whites had united...
...South Africa te which Scott returned is the most important and most troubled of these mixed societies. The government of the late Field Marshal Smuts passed a bill that segregated the Indian minority in Durban. Scott found that young Indian men & women were going each evening to camp or stand on a piece of ground that was now reserved for Europeans. He put on his cassock and joined them. Pleasant-looking young white men in athletic clothes gathered with pretty girls under the trees opposite. They attacked the Indians, making hunting cries. They did not touch Scott. They merely said...